Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysC. Scribner, 1864 - 344 pages |
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Page 12
... turns a mill . There is no water except when it rains , and the weather being very fickle , it is never known when there will be water . Sometimes , how- ever , there comes a freshet , and then the 12 Leffons in Life .
... turns a mill . There is no water except when it rains , and the weather being very fickle , it is never known when there will be water . Sometimes , how- ever , there comes a freshet , and then the 12 Leffons in Life .
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... turn his eyes admiringly upon her . A misshapen limb , a hump in the back , a withered arm , a shortened leg , a clubbed foot , a hare - lip , an un- wieldy corpulence , a hideous leanness , a bald head — all these are unpleasant ...
... turn his eyes admiringly upon her . A misshapen limb , a hump in the back , a withered arm , a shortened leg , a clubbed foot , a hare - lip , an un- wieldy corpulence , a hideous leanness , a bald head — all these are unpleasant ...
Page 33
... look at her once without turning to look again ; yet I had not been in her pres- ence a minute , before I found , to my utter disgust , that the old creature was as vain of her charms as 2 * Bodily Imperfections and Impediments . 33.
... look at her once without turning to look again ; yet I had not been in her pres- ence a minute , before I found , to my utter disgust , that the old creature was as vain of her charms as 2 * Bodily Imperfections and Impediments . 33.
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... turn our eyes back- ward with a sigh for days once ours , but lost forever . Lost forever ! This is the romantic pain that fills us in all our contemplations of simple animal content . It is lost to us , because we are lost to it . Like ...
... turn our eyes back- ward with a sigh for days once ours , but lost forever . Lost forever ! This is the romantic pain that fills us in all our contemplations of simple animal content . It is lost to us , because we are lost to it . Like ...
Page 65
... green with weeds . Plough up the prairie , and turn under the grass and flowers that have grown there since the white settler can remember , and there will spring from the inverted sod a strange growth that Reproduction in Kind . 65.
... green with weeds . Plough up the prairie , and turn under the grass and flowers that have grown there since the white settler can remember , and there will spring from the inverted sod a strange growth that Reproduction in Kind . 65.
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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.