Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysC. Scribner, 1864 - 344 pages |
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... body . When my little boy wakes in the morning , his smile is as bright as the pencil of sunlight that lies across his coverlet ; but when evening comes , he is peevish and fretful . The little limbs are weary , and the mood is produced ...
... body . When my little boy wakes in the morning , his smile is as bright as the pencil of sunlight that lies across his coverlet ; but when evening comes , he is peevish and fretful . The little limbs are weary , and the mood is produced ...
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... body . This , by way of manifesting a practical interest in his wel- fare , and paving our way to his heart by a form of kindness which he can thoroughly appreciate . But there is more in such an act than this , we change his mood ...
... body . This , by way of manifesting a practical interest in his wel- fare , and paving our way to his heart by a form of kindness which he can thoroughly appreciate . But there is more in such an act than this , we change his mood ...
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... body is playing harmoniously , and , of course , he feels well , and that is all there is about it . He is not a better Christian than he was when he slipped into the mood , and no better than he will be when he slips out of it . If he ...
... body is playing harmoniously , and , of course , he feels well , and that is all there is about it . He is not a better Christian than he was when he slipped into the mood , and no better than he will be when he slips out of it . If he ...
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... body , and examined his clubbed feet , and then went away and wrote about them . Here was a man with regal gifts of mind - a poet of splendid genius - a titled aristocrat - a man ad- mired and praised wherever the English language was ...
... body , and examined his clubbed feet , and then went away and wrote about them . Here was a man with regal gifts of mind - a poet of splendid genius - a titled aristocrat - a man ad- mired and praised wherever the English language was ...
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... bodies God has given them . Perhaps they are simply ugly , and are aware that no one can look in their faces with other thought than that they are ugly . Now it is a pleasant thing to have a pleasant face , and an agreeable form . It is ...
... bodies God has given them . Perhaps they are simply ugly , and are aware that no one can look in their faces with other thought than that they are ugly . Now it is a pleasant thing to have a pleasant face , and an agreeable form . It is ...
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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 182 - 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 170 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
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 182 - It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves ; Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed is done...
Page 98 - Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never can'st thou kiss, Though winning near the goal - yet do not grieve: She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss...
Page 261 - My stubborn right abide ; I set a plain man's common sense Against the pedant's pride. To-day shall simple manhood try The strength of gold and land ; The wide world has not wealth to buy The power in my right hand...
Page 169 - 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 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 220 - 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.