Sunbeams for all seasons; counsels, cautions, and precepts &c1861 |
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... voice , never treat with a song . If your teeth are pearl - white , never laugh without cause ; If you dance and play ill , never look for applause ; If your temper is peevish , no joke you must play ; If levity reigneth , mix not with ...
... voice , never treat with a song . If your teeth are pearl - white , never laugh without cause ; If you dance and play ill , never look for applause ; If your temper is peevish , no joke you must play ; If levity reigneth , mix not with ...
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... voice came to us , issuing from the school ! How fled the vacant , solitary hours , By dancing rivulet , or silent pool ! And still our souls retain , in manhood's prime , The love of joys our childish years that blest ; So now ...
... voice came to us , issuing from the school ! How fled the vacant , solitary hours , By dancing rivulet , or silent pool ! And still our souls retain , in manhood's prime , The love of joys our childish years that blest ; So now ...
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... Voice after voice hath died away , Once in my dwelling heard ; Sweet household name by name hath changed To grief's forbidden word . In dreams of night on each I call— Each of the far removed- And waken to my own wild cry , " Where are ...
... Voice after voice hath died away , Once in my dwelling heard ; Sweet household name by name hath changed To grief's forbidden word . In dreams of night on each I call— Each of the far removed- And waken to my own wild cry , " Where are ...
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... voices of the distant and the dead , and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages . Books are the true levellers . They give to all , who will faithfully use them , the society , the spiritual pre- sence , of the best and ...
... voices of the distant and the dead , and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages . Books are the true levellers . They give to all , who will faithfully use them , the society , the spiritual pre- sence , of the best and ...
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... voice , the happy night , That to the cottage , as the crown , Brought tidings of salvation down . Cigar Smokers . Sir Walter Scott . Automatons with the smoky nuisances of steam - engines , but without the power . Circumstances . Trust ...
... voice , the happy night , That to the cottage , as the crown , Brought tidings of salvation down . Cigar Smokers . Sir Walter Scott . Automatons with the smoky nuisances of steam - engines , but without the power . Circumstances . Trust ...
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Page 85 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall : Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 17 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Page 45 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 204 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly...
Page 75 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us; He knows each chord, — its various tone, Each spring, — its various bias: Then at the balance let's be mute; We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 266 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 117 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar - for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard! - May none those marks efface! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 229 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 17 - HE that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires ; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle never-dying fires. Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes.
Page 204 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep...