Notes of an Outlook on Life: Being Selections from Private Mss. of Alexander Gardiner Mercer, S.T.D. (1817-1882).G. Bell and sons, 1899 - 203 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 151 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Σελίδα 196 - The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it...
Σελίδα 196 - Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Σελίδα 52 - He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, And from the river unto the ends of the earth.
Σελίδα 180 - Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Σελίδα 86 - All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things ; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of manners and decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defence, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.
Σελίδα 98 - Love is a secondary passion in those who love most, a primary in those who love least.
Σελίδα 149 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Σελίδα 32 - Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again? Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending; — I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
Σελίδα 77 - Bring him away! bring him away!' In the mean time my strength and my voice returned, and I broke out aloud into prayer. And now the man who just before headed the mob turned and said, 'Sir, I will spend my life for you: follow me, and not one soul here shall touch a hair of your head.