Two Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts: A Storehouse of Memorable Utterances by Master MindsChristian Herald, 1897 - 320 էջ |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 22–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 25
... eternal Mind ! whose wisdom sees And rules our changes by unchanged decrees ; As with delight on Thy grave works we look , Say , art Thou too with our light follies took ? For when Thy bounteous hand , in lib'ral showers Each way ...
... eternal Mind ! whose wisdom sees And rules our changes by unchanged decrees ; As with delight on Thy grave works we look , Say , art Thou too with our light follies took ? For when Thy bounteous hand , in lib'ral showers Each way ...
Էջ 27
... ETERNAL WISDOM ! Thee we praise , Thee the creation sings ; With Thy loud name , rocks , hills , and seas , And heaven's high palace rings . -Isaac Watts . Our wisdom is not less at the mercy of fortune than one's goods . -La ...
... ETERNAL WISDOM ! Thee we praise , Thee the creation sings ; With Thy loud name , rocks , hills , and seas , And heaven's high palace rings . -Isaac Watts . Our wisdom is not less at the mercy of fortune than one's goods . -La ...
Էջ 37
... eternal rays ; Not daily benefits exhaust the flame ; It still is giving , and still burns the same . -Gay . Such is friendship , that through it we love places and seasons ; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance , and flowers ...
... eternal rays ; Not daily benefits exhaust the flame ; It still is giving , and still burns the same . -Gay . Such is friendship , that through it we love places and seasons ; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance , and flowers ...
Էջ 78
... Eternal ? Men are equal ; it is not birth , it is virtue alone that makes them differ . He is one of those spirits , the favorites of Heaven , who are every- thing by themselves , and nothing by their an- cestors . -Voltaire . The ...
... Eternal ? Men are equal ; it is not birth , it is virtue alone that makes them differ . He is one of those spirits , the favorites of Heaven , who are every- thing by themselves , and nothing by their an- cestors . -Voltaire . The ...
Էջ 83
... her song : And where her sweetest theme she chose , A soft responsive voice was heard at every close ; And Hope , enchanted , smiled , and waved her golden hair . -Collins . Hope springs eternal in the human breast , Man never Hope . 83.
... her song : And where her sweetest theme she chose , A soft responsive voice was heard at every close ; And Hope , enchanted , smiled , and waved her golden hair . -Collins . Hope springs eternal in the human breast , Man never Hope . 83.
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Two Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts: A Storehouse of Memorable ... Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1897 |
Common terms and phrases
Alice Cary angels beauty blessing Browning Bruyère Bulwer child Cicero Coleridge Confucian death doth dream Dwight L earth Emerson eternal eyes faith fear feel flowers fool fortune friendship genius George Eliot give glory God's Goethe grief H. W. Beecher hand happy hath heart heaven Henry honest honor hope hour human Julius Cæsar justice La Bruyère liberty life's light live Longfellow look Lytton Macbeth man's Matthew Arnold Mencius mind Montesquieu moral nature ne'er never night noble numbers o'er pain Plautus pleasure Pope reason rich Richard II Shakspere shine sleep smile sorrow soul spirit star sublime sweet tears Tennyson thee things Thomas à Kempis thou art thoughts true truth unto Vianney virtue W. S. Gilbert weep wisdom wise woes woman words Wordsworth young youth
Սիրված հատվածներ
Էջ 45 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Էջ 264 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Էջ 278 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Էջ 274 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Էջ 90 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
Էջ 288 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember...
Էջ 51 - Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words...
Էջ 273 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Էջ 215 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Էջ 152 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —