Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysC. Scribner, 1861 - 344 pages |
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... singing everywhere ; and the thought came to me , that if I could only stay out of doors , and lie down in the shadow of a tree , I could get my lesson . I begged the privilege of trying the experiment . The kind heart that presided ...
... singing everywhere ; and the thought came to me , that if I could only stay out of doors , and lie down in the shadow of a tree , I could get my lesson . I begged the privilege of trying the experiment . The kind heart that presided ...
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... singing that is simply what a weaver would call “ fill- ing . " Robins and bobolinks and blue - birds and sundry other favorites furnish the warp , and color and charac- terize the tapestry of a flowing , vocal morning ; while the ...
... singing that is simply what a weaver would call “ fill- ing . " Robins and bobolinks and blue - birds and sundry other favorites furnish the warp , and color and charac- terize the tapestry of a flowing , vocal morning ; while the ...
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... singing over the fact that he was forever released from military duty , and firemen's duty , and all racing about in the service of other people . There are individual cases of misfortune in which it is hard to de- tect the compensating ...
... singing over the fact that he was forever released from military duty , and firemen's duty , and all racing about in the service of other people . There are individual cases of misfortune in which it is hard to de- tect the compensating ...
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... sings from the heart , " O , would I were a boy again , " is , that he is " stuck " -to use a homely but expressive word - between boyhood and manhood , and , not feel- ing up to his position , has a very strong disposition to back out ...
... sings from the heart , " O , would I were a boy again , " is , that he is " stuck " -to use a homely but expressive word - between boyhood and manhood , and , not feel- ing up to his position , has a very strong disposition to back out ...
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... sing to us . The may - flower breathes the same fragrance now that it breathed in the fingers of Rose Standish ; and man and woman , producing after their kind , are the same to - day that they were three thousand years ago . Now there ...
... sing to us . The may - flower breathes the same fragrance now that it breathed in the fingers of Rose Standish ; and man and woman , producing after their kind , are the same to - day that they were three thousand years ago . Now there ...
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Page 16 - 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 190 - 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 23 - Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up...
Page 313 - 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 7 - 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 175 - 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 248 - 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.
Page 234 - For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along, Round the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right or wrong ; Whether conscious or unconscious, yet Humanity's vast frame Through its ocean.sundered fibres feels the gush of joy or shame ; — In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
Page 234 - Tis the finest sense Of justice which the human mind can frame, Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim, And guard the way of life from all offence Suffered or done.
Page 209 - It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.