Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester in 1864J. Wiley & son, 1866 - 119 oldal |
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... gentlemen , that my first duty this even ing is to ask your pardon for the ambiguity of title under which the subject of lecture has been announced ; and for having endeavoured , as you may ultimately think , to obtain your audience ...
... gentlemen , that my first duty this even ing is to ask your pardon for the ambiguity of title under which the subject of lecture has been announced ; and for having endeavoured , as you may ultimately think , to obtain your audience ...
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... gentleman may not know many languages , —may not be able to speak any but his own , may have read very few books . But whatever language he knows , he knows precisely ; whatever word he pronounces . he pronounces rightly ; above all ...
... gentleman may not know many languages , —may not be able to speak any but his own , may have read very few books . But whatever language he knows , he knows precisely ; whatever word he pronounces . he pronounces rightly ; above all ...
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... gentleman better to be discerned from a vulgar person , so in nothing is a gentle nation ( such nations have been ) better to be discerned from a mob , than in this , that their feelings are constant and just , results of due ...
... gentleman better to be discerned from a vulgar person , so in nothing is a gentle nation ( such nations have been ) better to be discerned from a mob , than in this , that their feelings are constant and just , results of due ...
44. oldal
... and putting it all into one person , to make a more azure - blooded gentleman of him , the thing homicides in general , can yet with mercy distinguish between 44 SESAME AND LILIES . murderers. Also, a great nation having made up ...
... and putting it all into one person , to make a more azure - blooded gentleman of him , the thing homicides in general , can yet with mercy distinguish between 44 SESAME AND LILIES . murderers. Also, a great nation having made up ...
45. oldal
... gentlemen , on delicatest prey , after the manner of weasels ; that is to say , we keep a certain number of clowns ... gentleman ( much more a lady ) is a great production ; a better production than most statues ; being beautifully ...
... gentlemen , on delicatest prey , after the manner of weasels ; that is to say , we keep a certain number of clowns ... gentleman ( much more a lady ) is a great production ; a better production than most statues ; being beautifully ...
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26. oldal - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest ; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks
27. oldal - The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
117. oldal - For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky, To faint in the light of the sun she loves, To faint in his light, and to die.
60. oldal - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
94. oldal - ... shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. "And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell; Such thoughts to Lucy I will give While she and I together live Here in this happy dell.
91. oldal - And wherever a true wife comes, this home is always round her. The stars only may be over her head, the glow-worm in the night-cold grass may be the only fire at her foot, but home is yet wherever she is ; and for a noble woman it stretches far round her, better than ceiled with cedar or painted with vermilion, shedding its quiet light far, for those who else were homeless.
38. oldal - I am not afraid of the word ; still less of the thing. You have heard many outcries against sensation lately j but, I can tell you, it is not less sensation we want, but more. The ennobling difference between one man and another, — between one animal and another, — is precisely in this, that one feels more than another.
12. oldal - ... chance or necessity ; and restricted within a narrow circle. We cannot know whom we would ; and those whom we know, we cannot have at our side when we most need them. All the higher circles of human intelligence are, to those beneath, only momentarily and partially open. We may, by good...
118. oldal - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate. The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;' The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers, 'I wait.
105. oldal - Domremy — those were the glories of the land: for in them abode mysterious powers and ancient secrets that towered into tragic strength. "Abbeys there were, and abbey windows," — " like Moorish temples of the Hindoos," that exercised even princely power both in Lorraine and in the German Diets.