Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysCharles Scribner, 1861 - 344 pages |
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... reach of his fingers ? How long I sat there I do not know , but the tinkle of a distant bell startled me , and I startled the trout , and fish and vision faded before the terrible con- sciousness that I knew less of my lesson than I ...
... reach of his fingers ? How long I sat there I do not know , but the tinkle of a distant bell startled me , and I startled the trout , and fish and vision faded before the terrible con- sciousness that I knew less of my lesson than I ...
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... reach of the jeal- ousy of her own sex , is an exceedingly fortunate woman ; and if personal homeliness has won for her this immunity , then homeliness has given her much to be thankful for . A homely woman who ignores her face and form ...
... reach of the jeal- ousy of her own sex , is an exceedingly fortunate woman ; and if personal homeliness has won for her this immunity , then homeliness has given her much to be thankful for . A homely woman who ignores her face and form ...
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... toward the unattainable , and he may reach forward to the perfections of a life of which the best that he sees around him is an intimation , or backward to the animal content of a life as yet undisturbed 42 Leffons in Life .
... toward the unattainable , and he may reach forward to the perfections of a life of which the best that he sees around him is an intimation , or backward to the animal content of a life as yet undisturbed 42 Leffons in Life .
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... reach the soil , through the vices that cumber and choke it . It is thus that home and the school - room are literally seminaries -places where seed is sown - and it is in these that we expect and intend that every seed shall produce ...
... reach the soil , through the vices that cumber and choke it . It is thus that home and the school - room are literally seminaries -places where seed is sown - and it is in these that we expect and intend that every seed shall produce ...
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... through which it passes to reach my mind ; and such is my imperfection and my weakness , that I could not raise my window immediately , and place my soul in direct , vital contact with the great atmosphere 72 Leffons in Life .
... through which it passes to reach my mind ; and such is my imperfection and my weakness , that I could not raise my window immediately , and place my soul in direct , vital contact with the great atmosphere 72 Leffons in Life .
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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.