Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysCharles Scribner, 1861 - 344 pages |
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... simple wants of certain simple natures are supplied ? I remember an old man who quite unexpectedly was drafted into the grand jury , which sat in the county town less than ten miles distant from his home ; and this was the great event ...
... simple wants of certain simple natures are supplied ? I remember an old man who quite unexpectedly was drafted into the grand jury , which sat in the county town less than ten miles distant from his home ; and this was the great event ...
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... simple pleasures and pursuits with the golden atmosphere of romance , not because they would enjoy such pleas- ures and pursuits at all , but rather because they are forever beyond their possession . A poet is always reaching toward the ...
... simple pleasures and pursuits with the golden atmosphere of romance , not because they would enjoy such pleas- ures and pursuits at all , but rather because they are forever beyond their possession . A poet is always reaching toward the ...
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... simple ani- mal content has for us , is connected with the memories of childhood . We can all recall a period of our lives when there was joy in the consciousness of living— when animal life , in its spontaneous overflow , flooded all ...
... simple ani- mal content has for us , is connected with the memories of childhood . We can all recall a period of our lives when there was joy in the consciousness of living— when animal life , in its spontaneous overflow , flooded all ...
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... simple animal content . It is lost to us , because we are lost to it . Like a passen- ger far out upon the sea , adventuring upon a long voyage , we look back upon the fading hills of our na- tive land , and sigh to think that the ...
... simple animal content . It is lost to us , because we are lost to it . Like a passen- ger far out upon the sea , adventuring upon a long voyage , we look back upon the fading hills of our na- tive land , and sigh to think that the ...
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... simple joys of childhood with delight , are content with the lot of manhood and womanhood , and would look upon a return to their simpler age as the great- est calamity that could be inflicted upon them . With brows wrinkled by care and ...
... simple joys of childhood with delight , are content with the lot of manhood and womanhood , and would look upon a return to their simpler age as the great- est calamity that could be inflicted upon them . With brows wrinkled by care and ...
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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.