Dramatis PersonaeChapman and Hall, 1864 - 250 pages |
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... Better , so call it , only not the same . To draw one beauty into our hearts ' core , And keep it changeless ! such our claim ; So answered , -Never more ! 14 . Simple ? Why this is the old woe o ' the world ; Tune , to whose rise and ...
... Better , so call it , only not the same . To draw one beauty into our hearts ' core , And keep it changeless ! such our claim ; So answered , -Never more ! 14 . Simple ? Why this is the old woe o ' the world ; Tune , to whose rise and ...
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... If you loved only what were worth your love , Love were clear gain , and wholly well for you : Make the low nature better by your throes ! Give earth yourself , go up for gain above ! VIII . BESIDE THE DRAWING - BOARD . 1 . JAMES LEE . 19.
... If you loved only what were worth your love , Love were clear gain , and wholly well for you : Make the low nature better by your throes ! Give earth yourself , go up for gain above ! VIII . BESIDE THE DRAWING - BOARD . 1 . JAMES LEE . 19.
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... better or worse In the human heart , but the mixture of each Is a marvel and a curse . 29 . The candid incline to surmise of late That the Christian faith may be false , I find ; For our Essays - and - Reviews ' debate Begins to tell on ...
... better or worse In the human heart , but the mixture of each Is a marvel and a curse . 29 . The candid incline to surmise of late That the Christian faith may be false , I find ; For our Essays - and - Reviews ' debate Begins to tell on ...
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... better thought you break , as you ought , Vows - words , no angel set down , some elf Mistook , -for an oath , an epigram ! 4 . Yes , might I judge you , here were my heart , And a hundred its like , to treat as you pleased ! I choose ...
... better thought you break , as you ought , Vows - words , no angel set down , some elf Mistook , -for an oath , an epigram ! 4 . Yes , might I judge you , here were my heart , And a hundred its like , to treat as you pleased ! I choose ...
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... better day : You should hardly grudge , could I be your judge ! But hush ! For you , can be no despair : There's amends : ' tis a secret : hope and pray ! 14 . For I was true at least - oh , true enough ! And , dear , truth is not as ...
... better day : You should hardly grudge , could I be your judge ! But hush ! For you , can be no despair : There's amends : ' tis a secret : hope and pray ! 14 . For I was true at least - oh , true enough ! And , dear , truth is not as ...
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Page 150 - And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Page 71 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws: that made them, and, lo, they are! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.
Page 78 - Poor vaunt of life indeed, Were man but formed to feed On joy, to solely seek and find and feast: Such feasting ended, then As sure an end to men; Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the mawcrammed beast?
Page 79 - For thence— a paradox Which comforts while it mocks— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me; A brute I might have been, but would not sink i
Page 73 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard...
Page 85 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 101 - For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, "And hope and fear, — believe the aged friend, — "Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love, " How love might be, hath been indeed, and is...
Page 79 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 73 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 86 - Fool ! All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall ; Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure : What entered into thee, That was, is, and shall be : Time's wheel runs back or stops : Potter and clay endure.