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الصفحة 47
... labour and sorrow that they may cling to it ; cling to it in old age , in misfortune , in pain and disease ; and have always so clung , even when faith held out to them visions of Elysian fields beyond its threshold . An old woman ...
... labour and sorrow that they may cling to it ; cling to it in old age , in misfortune , in pain and disease ; and have always so clung , even when faith held out to them visions of Elysian fields beyond its threshold . An old woman ...
الصفحة 85
... , and deal only with those who are fitted to see truly , but who labour within the bonds of misconception . Let us demand of these that they clear their minds of the cant of the new sentimen- [ 85 ] THE CHILD IN LITERATURE.
... , and deal only with those who are fitted to see truly , but who labour within the bonds of misconception . Let us demand of these that they clear their minds of the cant of the new sentimen- [ 85 ] THE CHILD IN LITERATURE.
الصفحة 103
... labour and service of the poet ; but two who have in any sense seen the meaning of our modern life . It is not of course inevitably necessary that the con- temporary thought should move in modern scenes . It appears to be of no ...
... labour and service of the poet ; but two who have in any sense seen the meaning of our modern life . It is not of course inevitably necessary that the con- temporary thought should move in modern scenes . It appears to be of no ...
الصفحة 128
... labour toilsome and your guides mislead . " " The shaft of life is wreathed with the human affec- tions , as the vine embraces the column and climbs into the sun's rays while its roots are nourished from the mould at its base . " " We ...
... labour toilsome and your guides mislead . " " The shaft of life is wreathed with the human affec- tions , as the vine embraces the column and climbs into the sun's rays while its roots are nourished from the mould at its base . " " We ...
الصفحة 131
... from his hand was created with the painstaking toil of the exact artist . To - day , enough is known of the effects of alcohol to make it sure that a sot cannot labour continuously , devot- [ 131 ] THE LITERATURE OF DEMOCRACY.
... from his hand was created with the painstaking toil of the exact artist . To - day , enough is known of the effects of alcohol to make it sure that a sot cannot labour continuously , devot- [ 131 ] THE LITERATURE OF DEMOCRACY.
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الصفحة 72 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can.
الصفحة 130 - The melancholy waters lie. No rays from the holy heaven come down On the long night-time of that town...
الصفحة 124 - Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. Yet America is a poem in our eyes ; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
الصفحة 129 - My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep, As it is lasting, so be deep!
الصفحة 225 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. Tt may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
الصفحة 21 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, ' To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
الصفحة 230 - A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in!
الصفحة 229 - Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane In some untrodden region of my mind, Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain, Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind...
الصفحة 122 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
الصفحة 87 - Here you come with your old music, and here's all the good it brings. What, they lived once thus at Venice where the merchants were the kings, Where St. Mark's is, where the Doges used to wed the sea with rings?