Sesame and LiliesJ. Wiley & sons, 1888 - 305 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 265 - MY HEART LEAPS UP." My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky. So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old Or let me die ! The child is father of the man
Σελίδα 264 - and twenty. 0 God ! Thy arm was here, And not to us but to Thy arm alone Ascribe we all.—When without stratagem But in plain shock, and even play of battle, Was ever known so great and little loss, On one part and on the other ?—Take it,, God, For it is only Thine
Σελίδα 122 - Did you notice that I missed two lines when I read you that first stanza ; and think that I had forgotten them ? Hear them now :— " Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown. Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate, alone." Who is it, think you, who stands at the gate of this
Σελίδα 6 - you write instead: that is mere conveyance of voice. But a book is written, not to multiply the voice merely, not to carry it merely, but to perpetuate it. The author has something to say which he perceives to be true and useful, or helpfully beautiful. So far as he knows. no one
Σελίδα 251 - Come into the garden, Maud, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone ; For the black bat, night, has flown, And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown.
Σελίδα 242 - And the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things—not merely industrious, but to love industry—not merely learned, but to love knowledge— not merely pure, but to love purity—not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after Justice.
Σελίδα 264 - thousand beams upon me, like the sun? They promised me eternal happiness, And brought me garlands, Griffith, which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear: I shall, assuredly. Grif. None, madam. Grif. I am most joyful, madam, such good dreams Possess your fancy. the
Σελίδα 78 - Helena, and last, and perhaps loveliest, Virgilia, are all faultless: conceived in the highest heroic type of humanity. 57. Then observe, secondly, The catastrophe of every play is caused always by the folly or fault of a man ; the redemption, if there be any, is by the wisdom and virtue of a woman, and failingthat,
Σελίδα 264 - without stratagem But in plain shock, and even play of battle, Was ever known so great and little loss, On one part and on the other ?—Take it,, God, For it is only Thine ! Exeter. 'Tis wonderful! King. Come, go we in procession to the village,
Σελίδα 89 - Paradise ! How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spill'd the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men, and men divine !" * 66. Thus much, then, respecting the relations of lovers I * Coventry Patmore. You cannot read him too often or too carefully;