Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysCharles Scribner, 1861 - 344 pages |
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... mean things are done in the family for which moods are put forward as the excuse , when the moods themselves are the most inexcusable things of all . A man or a woman in tol- erable health has no moral right to indulge in an un ...
... mean things are done in the family for which moods are put forward as the excuse , when the moods themselves are the most inexcusable things of all . A man or a woman in tol- erable health has no moral right to indulge in an un ...
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... mean time , the children watch him cautiously , and do not tease him with questions . When the soup is gulped , and he leans back and wipes his mouth , there is an evi- dent relaxation , and his wife ventures to ask for the When the ...
... mean time , the children watch him cautiously , and do not tease him with questions . When the soup is gulped , and he leans back and wipes his mouth , there is an evi- dent relaxation , and his wife ventures to ask for the When the ...
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... means of a dinner . A good dinner produces a good mood , at least , it produces an impressible mood . The will relaxes wonderfully under the influence of iced champagne , and canvas - backs are remarkable softeners of prejudice . The ...
... means of a dinner . A good dinner produces a good mood , at least , it produces an impressible mood . The will relaxes wonderfully under the influence of iced champagne , and canvas - backs are remarkable softeners of prejudice . The ...
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... mean , ) and a stranger could not carry on a conversation with him for five minutes , with- out hearing of something which occurred when " I was in Blanktown , on the Grand Jury . " It is doubt- ful whether Napoleon ever contemplated a ...
... mean , ) and a stranger could not carry on a conversation with him for five minutes , with- out hearing of something which occurred when " I was in Blanktown , on the Grand Jury . " It is doubt- ful whether Napoleon ever contemplated a ...
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... means and humble labors — ah ! how many weary , overloaded men - how many disap- pointed hearts - have sighed for such a boon , and sighed knowing they could never receive it . It has been the habit of poets to surround simple pleasures ...
... means and humble labors — ah ! how many weary , overloaded men - how many disap- pointed hearts - have sighed for such a boon , and sighed knowing they could never receive it . It has been the habit of poets to surround simple pleasures ...
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Page 18 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 192 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 25 - Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up...
Page 96 - Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal - yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page 9 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
Page 177 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 250 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 236 - For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along, Round the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right or wrong ; Whether conscious or unconscious, yet Humanity's vast frame Through its ocean.sundered fibres feels the gush of joy or shame ; — In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
Page 211 - It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
Page 79 - It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.