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... and have been able to cheer in the hour of darkness , that is indeed an ample reward , and is the utmost I have ever hoped . HIGH ELMS , DOWN , KENT , April 1889 . CONTENTS CHAPTER I AMBITION PAGE 1 CHAPTER II WEALTH . vi PREFACE.
... and have been able to cheer in the hour of darkness , that is indeed an ample reward , and is the utmost I have ever hoped . HIGH ELMS , DOWN , KENT , April 1889 . CONTENTS CHAPTER I AMBITION PAGE 1 CHAPTER II WEALTH . vi PREFACE.
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... to enjoy it . is dull and anxious drudgery . Keeping it The dread of loss may hang like a dark cloud over life . Apicius , when he had squandered most of his patrimony , but had still 250,000 crowns 20 CHAP . THE PLEASURES OF LIFE.
... to enjoy it . is dull and anxious drudgery . Keeping it The dread of loss may hang like a dark cloud over life . Apicius , when he had squandered most of his patrimony , but had still 250,000 crowns 20 CHAP . THE PLEASURES OF LIFE.
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... dark and doubtful presentiment . However this may be , there is such in- stinctive insight in the human heart that we often form our opinion almost instantane- ously , and such impressions seldom change , I might even say , they are ...
... dark and doubtful presentiment . However this may be , there is such in- stinctive insight in the human heart that we often form our opinion almost instantane- ously , and such impressions seldom change , I might even say , they are ...
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... the Sistine Chapel which represents the Deity dividing light from darkness , and has introduced it into his picture of the battle of Cadore , to represent a general falling from his horse . eye We 84 CHAP . THE PLEASURES OF LIFE.
... the Sistine Chapel which represents the Deity dividing light from darkness , and has introduced it into his picture of the battle of Cadore , to represent a general falling from his horse . eye We 84 CHAP . THE PLEASURES OF LIFE.
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... dark heath , and often obscured by misty weather ; narrow valleys thinly inhabited , and bounded by precipices resounding with the fall of torrents ; a soil so rugged , and a climate so dreary , as in many parts to admit neither the ...
... dark heath , and often obscured by misty weather ; narrow valleys thinly inhabited , and bounded by precipices resounding with the fall of torrents ; a soil so rugged , and a climate so dreary , as in many parts to admit neither the ...
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Page 70 - Going to the Wars Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. 1 Imprisoned or caged. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
Page 146 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly, is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Page 185 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 69 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 185 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 252 - Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 41 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and...
Page 153 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 112 - Like a poet hidden, In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Page 133 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...