The Literary World, Volume 12S.R. Crocker, 1881 |
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Pagina 75 - Sail on, О UNION, strong and great I Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years. Is hanging breathless on thy fate 1 We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and
Pagina 29 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at fast, dry, bald, and sear : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May. Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light.
Pagina 29 - dry, bald, and sear : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May. Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Pagina 78 - Wondrous truths, and manifold as wondrous, God hath written in those stars above ; But not less in the bright flowerets under us Stands the revelation of His love. Bright and glorious is that revelation. Written all over this great world of ours ; Making evident our own creation, In these stars of earth, these golden flowers. And
Pagina 80 - cathedral door A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, Lay down his burden, and with reverent feet Enter, and cross himself, and on the floor Kneel to repeat his pater noster o'er; Far off the noises of the world retreat ; The loud vociferations of the street Become an undistinguishable roar. The
Pagina 103 - his friend : It must be by his death : and for my part I know no personal cause to spurn at him But for the general. He would be crowned ; How that might change his nature, there's the question. And,
Pagina 196 - we get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits —so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth — "Tis then we get the right good from a book. — MRS. BROWNING:
Pagina 77 - Fell here and there through the branches a tremulous gleam of the moonlight, Like the sweet thoughts of love on a darkened and devious spirit. Nearer and round about her, the manifold flowers of the garden Poured out their souls in odors, that were their prayers and confessions Unto the
Pagina 197 - With Julius Caesar, Decimus Brutus had obtained that interest, as he set him down in his testament for heir in remainder after his nephew. And this was the man that had power with him to draw him forth to his death. For when Caesar would have discharged the Senate, in regard of some ill passages, and
Pagina 80 - The tumult of the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. So, as I enter here from day to day, And leave my burden at this minster gate, Kneeling in prayer, and not ashamed to pray,