The Smith College Monthly, Volume 25

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1917

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Página 5 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Página 176 - I would be subdued before my friends, and thank them for subduing me ; but among multitudes of men I have no feel of stooping ; I hate the idea of humility to them. " I never .wrote one single line of poetry with the least shadow of public thought.
Página 5 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Página 87 - I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man and true; I have only done my duty as a man is bound to do; With a joyful spirit I, Sir Richard Grenville, die!
Página 63 - Then, without determining as yet whether war does good or harm, thus much we may affirm, that now we have discovered war to be derived from causes which are also the causes of almost all the evils in States, private as well as public.
Página 322 - The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, — No higher than the soul is high. The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand ; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through. But East and West will pinch the heart That cannot keep them pushed apart; And he whose soul is flat — the sky Will cave in on him by and by.
Página 173 - There was a naughty Boy A naughty boy was he He would not stop at home He could not quiet be— He took In his Knapsack A Book Full of vowels And a shirt With some towels— A slight cap For night cap— A hair brush Comb ditto New Stockings For old ones Would split O! This Knapsack Tight at's back He rivetted close And followed his Nose To the North To the North And follow'd his nose To the...
Página 174 - The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing — to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party.
Página 175 - Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul...
Página 175 - I equally dislike the favour of the public with the love of a woman. They are both a cloying treacle to the wings of Independence. I shall ever consider them (People) as debtors to me for verses, not myself to them for admiration — which I can do without. I have of late been indulging my spleen by composing a preface AT them : after all resolving never to write a preface at all.

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