How to Develop Power and Personality in SpeakingFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1908 - 422 pages |
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... live in his age . From his seclusion of study , and abstinence , and prayer ; from habitual dwelling in the unseen , he seemed to come forth that one day of the week to speak to others of the things he had seen and known in secret . As ...
... live in his age . From his seclusion of study , and abstinence , and prayer ; from habitual dwelling in the unseen , he seemed to come forth that one day of the week to speak to others of the things he had seen and known in secret . As ...
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... lives in sweetest bud . All men make faults , and even I in this , Authorizing thy trespass with compare , Myself corrupting , salving thy amiss , Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are : For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense- Thy ...
... lives in sweetest bud . All men make faults , and even I in this , Authorizing thy trespass with compare , Myself corrupting , salving thy amiss , Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are : For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense- Thy ...
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... live , And by them did he live , they were his life . In such access of mind , in such high hour Of visitation from the living God , Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired . No thanks he breath'd , he proffer'd no request ; Rapt into ...
... live , And by them did he live , they were his life . In such access of mind , in such high hour Of visitation from the living God , Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired . No thanks he breath'd , he proffer'd no request ; Rapt into ...
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... live in ? " " No house , " says the poor soul . " Have you no father ? " " No ; God is not my Father , and there is none beside Him . " " Have you no mother ? " " No , the Church is not my mother ; I never sought her ways , nor loved ...
... live in ? " " No house , " says the poor soul . " Have you no father ? " " No ; God is not my Father , and there is none beside Him . " " Have you no mother ? " " No , the Church is not my mother ; I never sought her ways , nor loved ...
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... lives in His hands , and regarding the general scope of them - if He discovers benevolence , charity and good will to man beating in the heart , where He alone can look ; if He finds that our conduct , tho often forced out of the path ...
... lives in His hands , and regarding the general scope of them - if He discovers benevolence , charity and good will to man beating in the heart , where He alone can look ; if He finds that our conduct , tho often forced out of the path ...
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Page 417 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 378 - THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 109 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Page 26 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 109 - Love thyself last : cherish those hearts that hate thee : Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues : be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's...
Page 369 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Page 47 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Page 398 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 415 - WHEN all Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys ; Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love and praise.
Page 389 - THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit ? ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?