Safe StudiesWilliam Rice, 1891 - 429 páginas |
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Página 216 - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Página 161 - Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. " 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, 0 life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want.
Página 202 - We two will serve them both in aiding her — Will clear away the parasitic forms That seem to keep her up but drag her down...
Página 298 - Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time...
Página 14 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Página 88 - We never could very clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing ; or how it is that men who affect in their compositions qualities and feelings which they have not impose so much more easily on their contemporaries than on posterity.
Página 324 - As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
Página 318 - Deeply mourn'd the Lord of Burleigh, Burleigh-house by Stamford-town. And he came to look upon her, And he look'd at her and said, ' Bring the dress and put it on her, That she wore when she was wed.
Página 214 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Página 191 - Mastering the lawless science of our law, That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances, Thro' which a few, by wit or fortune led, May beat a pathway out to wealth and fame.