The SistersMcClure Company, 1908 - 421 pages |
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Page 69 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Page 17 - Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Page 267 - Heaven opened to a soul while yet on earth, Earth forced on a soul's use while seeing heaven: The man is witless of the size, the sum, The value in proportion of all things, Or whether it be little or be much.
Page 279 - First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted - better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out. Have you noticed, now, Your cullion's hanging face? A bit of chalk, And trust me but you should, though! How much more, If I drew higher things with the same truth! That were to take the Prior's pulpit-place, Interpret God to all of you!
Page 9 - ... a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together ; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing ; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away ; a time to rend, and a time to sew ; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate ; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Page 15 - Some there are who tell Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell The luckless Pots he marr'd in making — Pish! He's a Good Fellow, and 'twill all be well.
Page 294 - How much, preventing God, how much I owe To the defences thou hast round me set ; Example, custom, fear, occasion slow, — These scorned bondmen were my parapet. I dare not peep over this parapet To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below, The depths of sin to which I had descended, Had not these me against myself defended.
Page 54 - He looked at her, as a lover can ; She looked at him, as one who awakes, — The past was a sleep, and her life began.
Page 400 - ... but love is made Imperishable fire under the boughs Of chrysoberyl and beryl and chrysolite And chrysoprase and ruby and sardonyx.
Page 231 - What ? wouldest thou wit thy Lord's meaning in this thing ? Wit it well : Love was his meaning. Who sheweth it thee ? Love. Wherefore sheweth he it thee ? For Love. Hold thee, therein, thou shall wit more in the same. But thou shalt never wit therein other without end.