Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet. An AutobiographyHarper & brothers, 1850 - 371 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... knew I should have learnt there ; I knew not then that " the eye only sees that which it brings with it the power of seeing . " CHAPTER I A POET'S CHILDHOOD.
... knew I should have learnt there ; I knew not then that " the eye only sees that which it brings with it the power of seeing . " CHAPTER I A POET'S CHILDHOOD.
Pagina 9
... knew not how till I grew older , down in that same suburban street . She had been brought up an Independent . After my father's death she became a Baptist , from conscientious scruples . She considered the Baptists , as I do , as the ...
... knew not how till I grew older , down in that same suburban street . She had been brought up an Independent . After my father's death she became a Baptist , from conscientious scruples . She considered the Baptists , as I do , as the ...
Pagina 10
... knew that her life was uncertain , and who was always trying to go down to the deepest eternal ground and reason of every thing , and take her stand upon that . So our god , or gods rather , till we were twelve years old , were hell ...
... knew that her life was uncertain , and who was always trying to go down to the deepest eternal ground and reason of every thing , and take her stand upon that . So our god , or gods rather , till we were twelve years old , were hell ...
Pagina 11
... knew every leaf and flower in the little front garden ; every cabbage and rhubarb - plant in Battersea - fields was wonderful and beautiful to me . Clouds and water I learnt to delight in , from my occasional lingerings on Batter- sea ...
... knew every leaf and flower in the little front garden ; every cabbage and rhubarb - plant in Battersea - fields was wonderful and beautiful to me . Clouds and water I learnt to delight in , from my occasional lingerings on Batter- sea ...
Pagina 12
... knew were the Pilgrim's Progress and the Bible . The former was my Shakespeare , my Dante , my Vedas , by which I explained every fact and phenomenon of life . London was the city of Destruction , from which I was to flee ; I was ...
... knew were the Pilgrim's Progress and the Bible . The former was my Shakespeare , my Dante , my Vedas , by which I explained every fact and phenomenon of life . London was the city of Destruction , from which I was to flee ; I was ...
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Pagina 283 - If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us; but if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Pagina 29 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
Pagina 344 - They will not be learned nor understand, but walk on still in darkness : all the foundations of the earth are out of course. 6 I have said, Ye are gods : and ye are all the children of the most Highest.
Pagina 229 - Dee.' They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel, crawling foam, The cruel, hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea ; But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home, Across the sands o
Pagina 344 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Pagina 368 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Pagina 229 - The Western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she. The creeping tide came up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see; The blinding mist came down and hid the land; And never home came she.