Sunshine in ThoughtC.T. Evans, 1863 - 197 pages |
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... sense , and has his own miseries and his own little private weeping closet as well as his betters . It is , indeed , very apparent that , great as is the proportion of mock misery and spir- itual vanity among good poets and writers , it ...
... sense , and has his own miseries and his own little private weeping closet as well as his betters . It is , indeed , very apparent that , great as is the proportion of mock misery and spir- itual vanity among good poets and writers , it ...
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... sense spirit of pleasantness in our social relations . We do not laugh enough , or if the word laughter seem trivial and foolish , let us say that there is too little of that joyous feeling which abounds everywhere in Nature - is ...
... sense spirit of pleasantness in our social relations . We do not laugh enough , or if the word laughter seem trivial and foolish , let us say that there is too little of that joyous feeling which abounds everywhere in Nature - is ...
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... sense . Then starvation and rags became a merit , and splay , crooked limbs a beauty , while dirt was apotheosized . A cardinal edict in Spain forbade ladies to wash them- selves , because cleanliness promoted beauty , and beauty was ...
... sense . Then starvation and rags became a merit , and splay , crooked limbs a beauty , while dirt was apotheosized . A cardinal edict in Spain forbade ladies to wash them- selves , because cleanliness promoted beauty , and beauty was ...
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... sense of the goodness of beauty , and the per- fect loveliness of freedom , and of daring thought , were opening every day new windows on my mind , may ap- pear from the following story . Every man , once in a life , writes out his ...
... sense of the goodness of beauty , and the per- fect loveliness of freedom , and of daring thought , were opening every day new windows on my mind , may ap- pear from the following story . Every man , once in a life , writes out his ...
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... sense awakened within his soul - a sense of undeveloped music and infinite love - longing — of all har- monies and of all sources of the beautiful awaking to life , and gratified in their very awaking . There was no beau- tiful thing of ...
... sense awakened within his soul - a sense of undeveloped music and infinite love - longing — of all har- monies and of all sources of the beautiful awaking to life , and gratified in their very awaking . There was no beau- tiful thing of ...
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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...