Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysC. Scribner, 1864 - 344 pages |
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... green . The shadows among the woods are black and massive , and the whole face of nature looks painfully clean , like that of a healthy little boy who has been bathed in a chilly room with very cold 1 * PAGE MOODS AND FRAMES OF MIND,
... green . The shadows among the woods are black and massive , and the whole face of nature looks painfully clean , like that of a healthy little boy who has been bathed in a chilly room with very cold 1 * PAGE MOODS AND FRAMES OF MIND,
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... seen them bent over the parental knee , and their persons subjected to blows from the parental palm ; and they have emerged from the infliction with the vinegar all expelled , and their faces shining like Moods and Frames of Mind . 15.
... seen them bent over the parental knee , and their persons subjected to blows from the parental palm ; and they have emerged from the infliction with the vinegar all expelled , and their faces shining like Moods and Frames of Mind . 15.
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... faces shining like the morning the transition complete and satisfactory to all the parties . Three - quarters of the moods that men and women find themselves in , are just as much under the control of the will as this . The man who ...
... faces shining like the morning the transition complete and satisfactory to all the parties . Three - quarters of the moods that men and women find themselves in , are just as much under the control of the will as this . The man who ...
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... face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes , for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper , circling round , Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned . " While I maintain that a man can generally be ...
... face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes , for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper , circling round , Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned . " While I maintain that a man can generally be ...
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... face of the husband and father , which entered the house so pinched and savage and sharp , be- comes soft and full and beaming as the face of the round summer moon . Children are very sensitive to the influence of hunger ; and often ...
... face of the husband and father , which entered the house so pinched and savage and sharp , be- comes soft and full and beaming as the face of the round summer moon . Children are very sensitive to the influence of hunger ; and often ...
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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.