Sunshine in ThoughtC.T. Evans, 1863 - 197 pages |
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... wailing and lamentation . In vain do we seek the ' royal cheerfulness ' of SHAKSPEARE and SPENSER , the self - assured manliness of BEN JONSON , the jovial humor of CHAUCER . In fact , the witty writers of this century , such as JERROLD ...
... wailing and lamentation . In vain do we seek the ' royal cheerfulness ' of SHAKSPEARE and SPENSER , the self - assured manliness of BEN JONSON , the jovial humor of CHAUCER . In fact , the witty writers of this century , such as JERROLD ...
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... wailing in the higher circles will seem singular enough . More natural would it be for a young , brave . hearted race , so near in many relations to that nature which it is so vigorously subduing , to exult , to be ele- vated over its ...
... wailing in the higher circles will seem singular enough . More natural would it be for a young , brave . hearted race , so near in many relations to that nature which it is so vigorously subduing , to exult , to be ele- vated over its ...
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... wail , and as most of them write only during youth , leav- ing poetry in due time for labor , the consequence is a con- stant inundation of tears- -a luxuriance of mental powers spent in weakening and mutually disheartening the world ...
... wail , and as most of them write only during youth , leav- ing poetry in due time for labor , the consequence is a con- stant inundation of tears- -a luxuriance of mental powers spent in weakening and mutually disheartening the world ...
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... wailing over long lost but evidently imaginary loves ; to sorrows awakened by blue skies and fresh breezes into vanity - fed antagon- ism to the bustling " world , " which is vulgar enough to like such things — and be it observed ...
... wailing over long lost but evidently imaginary loves ; to sorrows awakened by blue skies and fresh breezes into vanity - fed antagon- ism to the bustling " world , " which is vulgar enough to like such things — and be it observed ...
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... wail as you will , sweet singers of sor- row ; fond pipers of your own beautiful woes , your hours are counted ; you know that your life - material is exhausted ; there is rapping at the gates without , that new 14 SUNSHINE IN THOUGHT .
... wail as you will , sweet singers of sor- row ; fond pipers of your own beautiful woes , your hours are counted ; you know that your life - material is exhausted ; there is rapping at the gates without , that new 14 SUNSHINE IN THOUGHT .
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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...