'Random truths in common things' occasional papers, by the author of 'The harvest of a quiet eye'. |
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... look so pretty that I forthwith contemplated a sketch , only some more important business forbad . It was one of those quiet bright days in October ( and that October was a sweet , warm , golden , gleamy month ) : one of those mild ...
... look so pretty that I forthwith contemplated a sketch , only some more important business forbad . It was one of those quiet bright days in October ( and that October was a sweet , warm , golden , gleamy month ) : one of those mild ...
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... look out from the warm bow - window at the dear and lovely works and creatures of God ; I shall draw my chair to the fireside for quiet and peaceful meditation and reminiscence , and even for an occasional reverie and dream of poetry ...
... look out from the warm bow - window at the dear and lovely works and creatures of God ; I shall draw my chair to the fireside for quiet and peaceful meditation and reminiscence , and even for an occasional reverie and dream of poetry ...
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... look , obtruded with painful effort , but pre- sent in the heart , should pervade the day , its rest , its reading , its conversation . That sun should shine out full in the hours of worship , and all the hours should be lit with a glow ...
... look , obtruded with painful effort , but pre- sent in the heart , should pervade the day , its rest , its reading , its conversation . That sun should shine out full in the hours of worship , and all the hours should be lit with a glow ...
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... look at that field of racing lambs : watch those two kittens at grace- ful play , or the three puppies at ungainly , preposterous antics : remember , also , that that faculty of smiling , yea , of hearty laughter , came to you from ...
... look at that field of racing lambs : watch those two kittens at grace- ful play , or the three puppies at ungainly , preposterous antics : remember , also , that that faculty of smiling , yea , of hearty laughter , came to you from ...
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... look which it is always in our power to call up , laughs from the grate , and gleams from the piano , and glimmers upon the wall . It is January , at this time , however , let us suppose ; and not September , far less June or July ...
... look which it is always in our power to call up , laughs from the grate , and gleams from the piano , and glimmers upon the wall . It is January , at this time , however , let us suppose ; and not September , far less June or July ...
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Страница 162 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone...
Страница 158 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Страница 117 - And, because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Страница 352 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Страница 5 - PRUNE thou thy words, the thoughts control That o:er thee swell and throng ; They will condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong. But he who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must be done, And faints at every woe. Faith's meanest deed more favor bears, Where hearts and wills are weighed, Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, Which bloom their hour and fade.
Страница 166 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Страница 289 - Not to covet nor desire other men's goods ; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
Страница 83 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Страница 49 - When each by turns was guide to each, And Fancy light from Fancy caught, And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought ; Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech...
Страница 184 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.