Cues from All Quarters: Or, The Literary Musings of a Clerical RecluseRoberts, 1871 - 340 من الصفحات |
من داخل الكتاب
الصفحة 40
... bleed to overhear the casual street - talk between a poor woman and her little girl . " It is not of toys , of nursery books , of summer holidays ( fitting that age ) ; of the promised sight , or play ; of praised sufficiency at school ...
... bleed to overhear the casual street - talk between a poor woman and her little girl . " It is not of toys , of nursery books , of summer holidays ( fitting that age ) ; of the promised sight , or play ; of praised sufficiency at school ...
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
animals appears asks beauty become believe better brutes called character child childhood common contradiction creatures death difference dream early effect existence eyes face fact father feel felt give gout grief habit hand happy head hear heart heaven hope human idea imagination interest kind King least less light lines listener live London look Lord lost manner means mind nature never night object observes once pain pass perhaps person picture play poet poor present question reason remarks respect round says seems sense side sleep smile solitude sometimes sorrow sort soul speak spirit story sufferings suggests sure talk tells things thou thought tion told true turn whole writes young
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 131 - Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete; That not a worm is cloven in vain; That not a moth with vain desire Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, Or but subserves another's gain.
الصفحة 132 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
الصفحة 93 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
الصفحة 39 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows: The young birds are chirping in the nest; The young fawns are playing with the shadows; The young flowers are blowing toward the west — But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! 10 They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the...
الصفحة 134 - That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault ; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
الصفحة 255 - On the hardest adamant some foot-print of us ' is stamped in ; the last Rear of the host will read ' traces of the earliest Van. But whence? — O Heaven, ' whither ? Sense knows not ; Faith knows not ; only ' that it is through Mystery to Mystery, from God and ' to God. " We are such stuff ' As Dreams are made of, and our little Life ' la rounded with a sleep !
الصفحة 299 - Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God ; But only he who sees takes off his shoes...
الصفحة 255 - Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh. That warrior on his strong war-horse, fire flashes through his eyes; force dwells in his arm and heart: but warrior and war-horse are a vision; a revealed Force, nothing more. Stately they tread the Earth, as if it were a firm substance: fool! the Earth is but a film; it cracks in twain, and warrior and war-horse sink beyond plummet's sounding. Plummet's? Fantasy herself will not follow them. A little while ago, they were not; a little while, and they are not,...
الصفحة 76 - ... in all the visible corporeal world we see no chasms, or no gaps. All quite down from us the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series of things, that in each remove differ very little one from the other.
الصفحة 49 - Even such a happy child of earth am I ; Even as these blissful creatures do I fare ; Far from the world I walk, and from all care ; But there may come another day to me — Solitude, pain of heart, distress, and poverty.