Literary Essays: New England two centuries ago. Carlyle. Swinburne's tragedies. The life and letters of James Gates Percival. Lessing. Rousseau and the sentimentalists. A great public character. WitchcraftHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 |
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Sivu 208 - The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. 'Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Sivu 16 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Sivu 45 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Sivu 15 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Sivu 298 - From Paul's I went, to Eton sent, To learn straightways the Latin phrase, Where fifty-three stripes given to me At once I had. For fault but small, or none at all, It came to pass thus beat I was; See, Udal, see the mercy of thee To me, poor lad.
Sivu 326 - Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
Sivu 224 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Sivu 243 - For every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action...
Sivu 249 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Sivu 202 - In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless...