Autumn Hours and Fireside ReadingCharles Scribner, 1854 - Всего страниц: 311 |
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... Nature neither placed it there to please the artist , nor will remove it to gratify the farmer . It is for those who can use it , and pursues not those who cannot . The multiplicity of books is not surprising . There needs many to suit ...
... Nature neither placed it there to please the artist , nor will remove it to gratify the farmer . It is for those who can use it , and pursues not those who cannot . The multiplicity of books is not surprising . There needs many to suit ...
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... sweet repose ! Who would not make books ! Tourists are proverbial for book - making , and certain critics seem to feel annoyed by the propensity ; yet how natural is it ! ' To travel and not tell , ' is superhuman 14 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
... sweet repose ! Who would not make books ! Tourists are proverbial for book - making , and certain critics seem to feel annoyed by the propensity ; yet how natural is it ! ' To travel and not tell , ' is superhuman 14 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
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... Nature as if she were an idiot , capable only of unintelligible mutterings , not worth atten- tion . But in this way we may make drones or hypocrites of all but the finest and highest spirits . Books that will excite curi- osity are ...
... Nature as if she were an idiot , capable only of unintelligible mutterings , not worth atten- tion . But in this way we may make drones or hypocrites of all but the finest and highest spirits . Books that will excite curi- osity are ...
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... nature . Invalids look solemn when they see others eating pine - apples ; tolerably well people , even , will tell you that strawberries are poison ; but are they so ? It is often said that nobody is perfectly well , and it is equally ...
... nature . Invalids look solemn when they see others eating pine - apples ; tolerably well people , even , will tell you that strawberries are poison ; but are they so ? It is often said that nobody is perfectly well , and it is equally ...
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... natural growth of the subject or intent ; and even for a miscel- laneous gathering , grave and gay , it used to be distinctive enough to call it such . Yet there has always been confessed some difficulty about the naming of books , and ...
... natural growth of the subject or intent ; and even for a miscel- laneous gathering , grave and gay , it used to be distinctive enough to call it such . Yet there has always been confessed some difficulty about the naming of books , and ...
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Стр. 142 - No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust ; And oft, when in my heart was heard...
Стр. 142 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad hearts ! without reproach or blot ; Who do thy work and know it not ; Oh ! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power ! around them cast.
Стр. 206 - The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness...
Стр. 77 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Стр. 265 - Subtle as Sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Стр. 222 - ... encumbered with claims — and took up her own abode on the new plantation. Living in an humble dwelling — and relinquishing many of her habitual comforts — -she devoted herself with such zeal, untiring industry, and indomitable resolution to the attainment of her object, that her success triumphed over every difficulty, and exceeded the expectations of all who had discouraged her. She not only paid her husband's debts to the full, but secured for her children and descendants a handsome and...
Стр. 220 - how came you here ?' "'Oh, I thought, 'replied I, 'you would need nurses as well as soldiers.
Стр. 117 - Impostor, do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance...
Стр. 63 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover...
Стр. 143 - Why, assure you, signior, rich apparel has strange virtues : it makes him that hath it without means, esteemed for an excellent wit : he that enjoys it with means, puts the world in remembrance of his means : it helps the deformities of nature, and gives lustre to her beauties ; makes continual holiday where it shines...