Spare Hours, by John BrownHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 458 pàgines |
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Pàgina 16
... original ; it is an exquisite monograph , and to me most instructive and striking . Every one will ask why such a man has not written more a question my fastidious friend will find is easier asked than answered . This Preface was ...
... original ; it is an exquisite monograph , and to me most instructive and striking . Every one will ask why such a man has not written more a question my fastidious friend will find is easier asked than answered . This Preface was ...
Pàgina 55
... original and bright thought . Sir John Herschel's volume needs no praise . We know no work of the sort , fuller of the best moral worth , as well as the highest philosophy . We fear it is more talked of than read We would recommend the ...
... original and bright thought . Sir John Herschel's volume needs no praise . We know no work of the sort , fuller of the best moral worth , as well as the highest philosophy . We fear it is more talked of than read We would recommend the ...
Pàgina 56
... original enough , better expressed and put than you ever before saw it . The lectures on the Affections , the Passions and Desires , and on Study , we would have everybody to read and enjoy . ― the Sedgwick is a different , and , as a ...
... original enough , better expressed and put than you ever before saw it . The lectures on the Affections , the Passions and Desires , and on Study , we would have everybody to read and enjoy . ― the Sedgwick is a different , and , as a ...
Pàgina 72
... original and Cyclopean valley , deep , threatening , sav- age , and yet beautiful - - " Where rocks were rudely heaped , and rent As by a spirit turbulent ; Where sights were rough , and sounds were wild , And everything unreconciled ...
... original and Cyclopean valley , deep , threatening , sav- age , and yet beautiful - - " Where rocks were rudely heaped , and rent As by a spirit turbulent ; Where sights were rough , and sounds were wild , And everything unreconciled ...
Pàgina 87
... policeman's baton ; the machinery for working it wa of great power , and acted in a way , as far as I have been able to discover , quite original . We called it his ruler . When he wished to get into the house , he TOBY . 87.
... policeman's baton ; the machinery for working it wa of great power , and acted in a way , as far as I have been able to discover , quite original . We called it his ruler . When he wished to get into the house , he TOBY . 87.
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Pàgina 210 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Pàgina 170 - God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
Pàgina 184 - But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Pàgina 244 - Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play!
Pàgina 283 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Pàgina 246 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Pàgina 210 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, "I have no need of thee:" nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you.
Pàgina 364 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow. The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Pàgina 349 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Pàgina 203 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, "Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.