The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of CharacterSampson, Low, son & Marston, 1866 - 303 pagina's |
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... Gentle thoughts , when they may give the foil , Save them that yield , and spare where they may spoil . " T. HEYWOOD , A Woman Killed with Kindness . Friswell , J. H. J.H. THE GENTLE LIFE . ESSAYS.
... Gentle thoughts , when they may give the foil , Save them that yield , and spare where they may spoil . " T. HEYWOOD , A Woman Killed with Kindness . Friswell , J. H. J.H. THE GENTLE LIFE . ESSAYS.
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... Gentle Life , he scarcely knew the kindness of the Public and of a large portion of the Press , and little dreamed that an earnest endeavour would be so warmly welcomed . But many editions have convinced him - and this is pleaded as an ...
... Gentle Life , he scarcely knew the kindness of the Public and of a large portion of the Press , and little dreamed that an earnest endeavour would be so warmly welcomed . But many editions have convinced him - and this is pleaded as an ...
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... Gentle Life - Gentle because manly and womanly , and truly manly because Gentle - one must think rightly upon many things ; hence the subjects which might be treated of are wide and various . In that excellently quaint work called by ...
... Gentle Life - Gentle because manly and womanly , and truly manly because Gentle - one must think rightly upon many things ; hence the subjects which might be treated of are wide and various . In that excellently quaint work called by ...
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... great dramatist ; and so , perhaps , the reader , after having entered upon these old roads , may find them firm to be trodden , and with the sides garnished with flowers . When we consider that , of all visible beings , 2 THE GENTLE LIFE.
... great dramatist ; and so , perhaps , the reader , after having entered upon these old roads , may find them firm to be trodden , and with the sides garnished with flowers . When we consider that , of all visible beings , 2 THE GENTLE LIFE.
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... : for he himself , being in the image of the Creator , has much of the Creator in him . He thinks boldly , and , like Archimedes , nobly ; he has put to himself a wide and great problem : given matter 6 THE GENTLE LIFE.
... : for he himself , being in the image of the Creator , has much of the Creator in him . He thinks boldly , and , like Archimedes , nobly ; he has put to himself a wide and great problem : given matter 6 THE GENTLE LIFE.
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Pagina 71 - 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 stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Pagina 248 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between. But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Pagina 4 - To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history, the many races of man, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts ; and then their ways, habits, governments, forms of worship ; their enterprises, their aimless courses, their random achievements and acquirements, the impotent conclusion of long-standing facts, the tokens so faint and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution...
Pagina 11 - Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...
Pagina 261 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Pagina 188 - In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not. Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges; hath his seat In reason, and is judicious ; is the scale By which to heavenly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure ; for which cause, Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
Pagina 131 - Rawdon Crawley, springing out, seized him by the neckcloth, until Steyne, almost strangled, writhed, and bent under his arm. "You lie, you dog!" said Rawdon. "You lie, you coward and villain ! " And he struck the peer twice over the face with his open hand, and flung him bleeding to the ground. It was all done before Rebecca could interpose. She stood there trembling before him. She admired her husband, strong, brave, and victorious. " Come here," he said. She came up at once. "Take off those things.
Pagina 159 - Tell, manhood shakes off pity, Tell, virtue least preferreth. And if they do reply, Spare not to give the lie. So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing — Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing — Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill.
Pagina 110 - It is just that this youngster should die away: a sad thought for me, if I had not some hope that while it is dwindling I may be plotting and fitting myself for verses fit to live.