Sunshine in ThoughtC.T. Evans, 1863 - 197 pages |
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... century , such as JERROLD , HOOD , and HEINE , employ their genius in ridiculing the follies of the times - laugh at us rather than with us - and not unfrequently their best points are the saddest of commentaries on the saddest of ages ...
... century , such as JERROLD , HOOD , and HEINE , employ their genius in ridiculing the follies of the times - laugh at us rather than with us - and not unfrequently their best points are the saddest of commentaries on the saddest of ages ...
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... centuries upon myriad millions of Slavonian hearts ; and when we hear the wailing song of the Troïka ; of the sorrowing postillion driving his sleigh along the snowy waste , singing , to the accompaniment of one mourn- ful tinkling bell ...
... centuries upon myriad millions of Slavonian hearts ; and when we hear the wailing song of the Troïka ; of the sorrowing postillion driving his sleigh along the snowy waste , singing , to the accompaniment of one mourn- ful tinkling bell ...
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... centuries after CHRIST , the new - born element of thought was a pure , beautiful spring , bubbling up from the ruined piles of the temple of Heathen- ism . Its every symbol preserved in the Vatican shows , like those of early ...
... centuries after CHRIST , the new - born element of thought was a pure , beautiful spring , bubbling up from the ruined piles of the temple of Heathen- ism . Its every symbol preserved in the Vatican shows , like those of early ...
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... century . And under it all ran one note , " A low , perpetual wail , as of souls in pain , " and the cause and the soul of the note was the edict to scorn the world and its beauty , trample down the flesh , and regard nature as devilish ...
... century . And under it all ran one note , " A low , perpetual wail , as of souls in pain , " and the cause and the soul of the note was the edict to scorn the world and its beauty , trample down the flesh , and regard nature as devilish ...
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... century , in which the book was composed . It was as though I had suddenly discovered in the dark shaft of a mine a great vein of gold , and the proudly simple , primævally strong words flashed so brightly on me , that my heart was well ...
... century , in which the book was composed . It was as though I had suddenly discovered in the dark shaft of a mine a great vein of gold , and the proudly simple , primævally strong words flashed so brightly on me , that my heart was well ...
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Page 137 - But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet. For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Page 145 - That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life.
Page 72 - ... sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 128 - O wheels! Still, all day, the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark; And the children's souls, which God is calling sunward, Spin on blindly in the dark.
Page 111 - I have become sincerely suspicions of the piety of those who do not love pleasure in any form. I cannot trust the man that never laughs ; that is always sedate ; that has no apparent outlets for springs of sportiveness and gayety that are perennial in the human soul. I know that Nature takes her revenge on such violence. I expect to find secret vices, malignant sins, or horrid crimes springing up in this hot-bed...
Page 137 - Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or way, But to work that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day.
Page 128 - Let them feel that this cold metallic motion Is not all the life God fashions or reveals: Let them prove their living souls against the notion That they live in you, or under you, O wheels!
Page 100 - LOOKED upon his brow, — no sign Of guilt or fear was there ; He stood as proud by that death-shrine As even o'er Despair He had a power ; in his eye There was a quenchless energy, A spirit that could dare The deadliest form that Death could take. And dare it for the daring's sake.
Page 24 - Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
Page 89 - Humanity is a word which you look for in vain in Plato or Aristotle; the idea of mankind as one family, as the children of one God, is an idea of Christian growth...