Literary Recreations and MiscellaniesTicknor and Fields, 1854 - 431 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... eyes back upon his past life , he must have smiled at the fond conceit which could imagine a permanent Utopia , when he himself , certainly more * learned , honest , and conscientious than the mass of UTOPIAN SCHEMES . 13.
... eyes back upon his past life , he must have smiled at the fond conceit which could imagine a permanent Utopia , when he himself , certainly more * learned , honest , and conscientious than the mass of UTOPIAN SCHEMES . 13.
Pagina 25
... eye is brighter ; his cheeks glow with health ; his countenance is more expressive of thought . He has learned many words , and constructs simple sentences ; his affections begin to develop ; and there is every pros- pect that he will ...
... eye is brighter ; his cheeks glow with health ; his countenance is more expressive of thought . He has learned many words , and constructs simple sentences ; his affections begin to develop ; and there is every pros- pect that he will ...
Pagina 26
... eye wanders , and the spark of consciousness and intelligence which has been fanned into momentary brightness darkens at the slightest relaxation of the teacher's exertions . The names of objects presented to him must sometimes be ...
... eye wanders , and the spark of consciousness and intelligence which has been fanned into momentary brightness darkens at the slightest relaxation of the teacher's exertions . The names of objects presented to him must sometimes be ...
Pagina 47
... eyes of the poet Gray , who declared that his ideal of happiness was " to lie on a sofa and read eternal new romances . " The style is that which lends such a charm to the author's essays brilliant , epigrammatic , vigorous . In- deed ...
... eyes of the poet Gray , who declared that his ideal of happiness was " to lie on a sofa and read eternal new romances . " The style is that which lends such a charm to the author's essays brilliant , epigrammatic , vigorous . In- deed ...
Pagina 71
... eyes from window and balcony , the " general sympathizers " moved slowly and majestically through the broad avenue towards the Capi- tol , to celebrate the revival of French liberty in a manner becoming the chosen rulers of a free ...
... eyes from window and balcony , the " general sympathizers " moved slowly and majestically through the broad avenue towards the Capi- tol , to celebrate the revival of French liberty in a manner becoming the chosen rulers of a free ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 307 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Pagina 151 - Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town.
Pagina 257 - A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Pagina 237 - But the righteous live for evermore; their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the most High. Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord's hand: for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them.
Pagina 431 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Pagina 174 - Faces clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair, Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
Pagina 136 - They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick ; but go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice : for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Pagina 272 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Pagina 54 - Nowhere could be found that sensitive and restless compassion which has, in our time, extended a powerful protection to the factory child, to the Hindoo widow, to the negro slave, which pries into the stores and watercasks of every emigrant ship, which winces at every lash laid on the back of a drunken soldier, which will not suffer the thief in the hulks to be ill fed or overworked, and which has repeatedly endeavored to save the life even of the murderer.
Pagina 430 - But patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude, Making them each his own deliverer, And victor over all That tyranny or fortune can inflict...
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