The Lover's Seat. Kathemérina Or Common Things in Relation to Beauty, Virtue, and Truth, 2. köideLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 |
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... knowledge of them , or that they are malevolent and wholly devoid of humanity ? Lighter literature seems comparatively exempt from such a spirit . Take our oldest plays . They make vice horrible and virtue glorious ; but they do not see ...
... knowledge of them , or that they are malevolent and wholly devoid of humanity ? Lighter literature seems comparatively exempt from such a spirit . Take our oldest plays . They make vice horrible and virtue glorious ; but they do not see ...
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... knowledge as starving men for the staff of life ; that they are most grateful for in- struction ; that they are as deeply moved by any kindness and sympathy , when once their suspicion has been overcome , as they are excited by any ...
... knowledge as starving men for the staff of life ; that they are most grateful for in- struction ; that they are as deeply moved by any kindness and sympathy , when once their suspicion has been overcome , as they are excited by any ...
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... knowledge . Besides , as Goldsmith observes , " There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence in a visible manner , that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue . " You see , therefore , that common views ...
... knowledge . Besides , as Goldsmith observes , " There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence in a visible manner , that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue . " You see , therefore , that common views ...
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... knowledge has acquired humility enough to look at them steadily . " It is a happy consideration , " as an eminent observer says , " that the humanity , the wide - ranging and healthy sympathies , and especially the recognition of the ...
... knowledge has acquired humility enough to look at them steadily . " It is a happy consideration , " as an eminent observer says , " that the humanity , the wide - ranging and healthy sympathies , and especially the recognition of the ...
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... knowledge is almost pathetic . " But the greatest number of the common people need not such an apologetic advocacy ; and in general we may truly say , that amid the wolfish malignity of many rich men , the sugared meanness of others ...
... knowledge is almost pathetic . " But the greatest number of the common people need not such an apologetic advocacy ; and in general we may truly say , that amid the wolfish malignity of many rich men , the sugared meanness of others ...
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Page 137 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
Page 183 - It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century ; — But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men...
Page 147 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Page 120 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Page 51 - MY little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.
Page 168 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
Page 335 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear: If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, • Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
Page 284 - She doeth little kindnesses, Which most leave undone, or despise ; For naught that sets one heart at ease, And giveth happiness or peace, Is low-esteemed in her eyes.
Page 137 - And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea; and other times to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors!
Page 146 - There is no death ! What seems so is transition : This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.