EssaysMacmillan, 1896 - 312 էջ |
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Էջ xii
... that criticism of contemporaries is all a matter of private interest , apart from any just or earnest conviction ? But there is still a class of readers , not very large or important perhaps , haunted by a native instinct xii Preface.
... that criticism of contemporaries is all a matter of private interest , apart from any just or earnest conviction ? But there is still a class of readers , not very large or important perhaps , haunted by a native instinct xii Preface.
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... interest for the civilised world , and for Englishmen in particular , which it cannot be pre- tended that they possess now . Political gossip has taken the place of theological discussion . Then , contemporary writers thought fit to ...
... interest for the civilised world , and for Englishmen in particular , which it cannot be pre- tended that they possess now . Political gossip has taken the place of theological discussion . Then , contemporary writers thought fit to ...
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... he had but a momentary interest in it ; and , like the Sibyl , he saw the wind whirl the leaves about , without regard to the precious characters they bore . Once or twice the humour took him to sketch himself A Minute Philosopher 21.
... he had but a momentary interest in it ; and , like the Sibyl , he saw the wind whirl the leaves about , without regard to the precious characters they bore . Once or twice the humour took him to sketch himself A Minute Philosopher 21.
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... interest in the more unpleasing types of which humanity affords such numerous instances . It was the foreshadowing of the modern novel ; but it remained of course a somewhat elementary form of delineation of character . Its elementari ...
... interest in the more unpleasing types of which humanity affords such numerous instances . It was the foreshadowing of the modern novel ; but it remained of course a somewhat elementary form of delineation of character . Its elementari ...
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... interest of the situation lies in the fact that these men were pure and devoted beyond measure in life as well as in thought . Smith did more by direct influence and personal weight than even by his " Select Discourses . " Dr. Patrick ...
... interest of the situation lies in the fact that these men were pure and devoted beyond measure in life as well as in thought . Smith did more by direct influence and personal weight than even by his " Select Discourses . " Dr. Patrick ...
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Էջ 277 - Does the road wind up-hill all the way ? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place ? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face ? You cannot miss that inn.
Էջ 212 - OH, TO BE in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England - now...
Էջ 196 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abide Of the everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.
Էջ 104 - You think no doubt he sits and muses On future broken bones and bruises, If he should chance to fall ; No not a single thought like that Employs his philosophic pate, Or troubles it at all.
Էջ 169 - Felpham is a sweet place for study, because it is more spiritual than London. Heaven opens here on all sides her golden gates : her windows are not obstructed by vapours ; voices of celestial inhabitants are more distinctly heard and their forms more distinctly seen ; and my cottage is also a shadow of their houses.
Էջ 103 - THERE is a bird, who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow; A great frequenter of the church, Where bishoplike he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather. Look up— your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds— that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.
Էջ 75 - Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Էջ 281 - In the bleak mid-winter Long ago. Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him, Nor earth sustain; Heaven and earth shall flee away When He comes to reign: In the bleak mid-winter A stable-place sufficed The Lord God Almighty Jesus Christ.
Էջ 274 - BIRTHDAY. My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot ; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit ; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea ; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me.
Էջ 287 - Her pleasant lot. She left the rosy morn, She left the fields of corn, For twilight cold and lorn And water springs. Through sleep, as through a veil, She sees the sky look pale, And hears the nightingale That sadly sings. Rest, rest, a perfect rest Shed over brow and breast; Her face is toward the west, The purple land. She cannot see the grain Ripening on hill and plain ; She cannot feel the rain Upon her hand. Rest, rest, for evermore Upon a mossy shore ; Rest, rest at the heart's core Till time...