...began with wonder and unconscious sympathy. Familiarity produced indifference, And custom lay upon us with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life. * The green earth and the blue heavens excite in us a thrill no longer. The spontaneous feeling and impulse...

...their blessedness at strife ; Full soon the soul shall bear her earthly freight, And custom lie upon it with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! " the world cannot give or take away, will arouse it to the consciousness of — " Thoughts that wake To...

...must give up all hope of reform. It is, «las! always to be said of those in power in Britain — " Custom lies upon them with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life." ТНEEЬКЁЫХ HINTS ON EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING. IN giving these hints, it is of...

...darkness lost, the darkness of the grave ; Thou, over whom thy immortality 3 And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life. The years to bring the inevitable yoke : Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Full soon thy soul...

...fearless ; they must do as they see neighbours doing, stoop to propitiate their customers — " And custom lies upon them with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! " For my own part I shall think well before I entrust any teacher with the training...

...intolerable tyrant ; the habits of society, which to many minds are almost a religion — " Hang upon us with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life." The patrimony of past experience, valuable though it be, too often fetters the mind, and forbids an independent...

...life. They who do not master this lesson betimes find it a hard thing to master it at all ; for soon custom lies upon them with a weight — " Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life." From them no small part of the world is likely to remain hidden. To not a little that...

...office; his mother is deadened by the gloomy routine of economy and fashion ; custom lies upon her with a weight heavy as frost and deep almost as life ; the fountains of natural fancy and mirth are frozen over ; so Baby lisps his dawn paeans in soft Oriental...

...gravitation or the daily revolution of the earth. These are the men who never observe and reflect. Custom lies upon them with a weight "heavy as frost and deep almost as life." They have always been accustomed to play that particular stroke in that particular...

...office ; his mother is deadened by the gloomy routine of economy and fashion ; custom lies upon her with a weight heavy as frost and deep almost as life ; the fountains of natural fancy and mirth are frozen over ; so Baby lisps his dawn paeans in soft Oriental...