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... write his name upon it , " said the other . The remark was the one touch needed to turn the poet to more serious thoughts and a more earnest way of life . What is the ideal of your life ? Art thou a wor- shipper at the shrine of gold ...
... write his name upon it , " said the other . The remark was the one touch needed to turn the poet to more serious thoughts and a more earnest way of life . What is the ideal of your life ? Art thou a wor- shipper at the shrine of gold ...
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... write fiction . It had always been a vague dream of mine that , some time or other , I might write a novel ; and my shadowy conception of what the novel was to be varied , of course , from one epoch of my life to another , but I never ...
... write fiction . It had always been a vague dream of mine that , some time or other , I might write a novel ; and my shadowy conception of what the novel was to be varied , of course , from one epoch of my life to another , but I never ...
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Cortland Myers. passed on I lost hope that I should ever be able to write a novel , just as I desponded about ... writing a story , of which the title was " The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton . " The result was the now famous ...
Cortland Myers. passed on I lost hope that I should ever be able to write a novel , just as I desponded about ... writing a story , of which the title was " The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton . " The result was the now famous ...
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... writer , in those circumstances , -which have been immortalized by a picture , - brings forth a story ; Johnson reads it , perceives its merit , rushes forth to sell it ; the poor writer is re- leased from his fear of ejection , and the ...
... writer , in those circumstances , -which have been immortalized by a picture , - brings forth a story ; Johnson reads it , perceives its merit , rushes forth to sell it ; the poor writer is re- leased from his fear of ejection , and the ...
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... write you , Conscript Fathers , or what not to write , may the gods and goddesses consume me , more than they eternally do , if I know . " Miserable man ! No wonder , though you take your place in the niche of history as " Tristissimus ...
... write you , Conscript Fathers , or what not to write , may the gods and goddesses consume me , more than they eternally do , if I know . " Miserable man ! No wonder , though you take your place in the niche of history as " Tristissimus ...
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Æneid ambition angel army Beau Brummel beauty blessing blind blood broken brought carries character child Chosroes Christ Christian circle clouds conscience courage crown darkness David Livingstone death declared deepest Demosthenes discovered divine earth element ence environment errand of mercy eternal face force forever genius George Eliot give glory God's golden harvest greatest hand harmonious music heart heaven hero highest holy hour human ideal influence John Milton Jonathan Trumbull king learned life's live man's manhood martial music memory ment mighty mother mountain mystery nature never obedience Ole Bull pain pathway perfect peril poverty prayer problem of pain reveals Richard Sheridan riches Savonarola says secret side sorrow soul strength success suffering sweet talent tell things thou thought thousand thread throne tion touch truth victory vision waste whole word young
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Page 45 - BUT THEY THAT WILL BE RICH FALL INTO TEMPTATION AND A SNARE, AND INTO MANY FOOLISH AND HURTFUL LUSTS, WHICH DROWN MEN IN DESTRUCTION AND PERDITION. FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL : WHICH WHILE SOME COVETED AFTER, THEY HAVE ERRED FROM THE FAITH, AND PIERCED THEMSELVES THROUGH WITH MANY SORROWS.
Page 212 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest. For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled ; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.
Page 206 - OFT, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me : The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Page 74 - I count this thing to be grandly true ; That a noble deed is a step toward God — Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.
Page 49 - To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion ; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich...
Page 215 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 9 - The Situation that has not its Duty, its Ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable Actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal: work it out therefrom; and working, believe, live, be free.
Page 220 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Page 141 - The introduction to this felicity is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which is the enchantment of human life ; which, like a certain divine rage and enthusiasm, seizes on man at one period, and works a revolution in his mind and body ; unites him to his. race, pledges him to the domestic and civic relations, carries him with new sympathy into nature, enhances the power of the senses, opens the imagination, adds to his character heroic and sacred attributes, establishes marriage, and...
Page 9 - Fool! the Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic?