A Record of Ellen WatsonAnna Jane Buckland Macmillan and Company, 1884 - 279 pages |
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... perfect happiness can exist only where every desire is gratified , or - and I prefer to define it thus - where every faculty is freely exercised . And I should say that the gratification of a desire , rather than an increase of ...
... perfect happiness can exist only where every desire is gratified , or - and I prefer to define it thus - where every faculty is freely exercised . And I should say that the gratification of a desire , rather than an increase of ...
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... perfect if we were always true to our better This blessedness may be far off , but it is not a mere dream . Even now there are men and women who seem to be very near it . " natures . This double life of individual progress and ...
... perfect if we were always true to our better This blessedness may be far off , but it is not a mere dream . Even now there are men and women who seem to be very near it . " natures . This double life of individual progress and ...
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... perfect , and each day we have new delightful experi- ences . If I do not hear from you to the contrary , I think we shall stay here over the week and get back about the 24th . It is different from anything we have experienced before ...
... perfect , and each day we have new delightful experi- ences . If I do not hear from you to the contrary , I think we shall stay here over the week and get back about the 24th . It is different from anything we have experienced before ...
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... perfect rest for tired minds . I mean Pater's studies in the History of the Renaissance . It takes you without effort into a new world , and the singular theory of life which runs through it is simply an amusing feature in a series of ...
... perfect rest for tired minds . I mean Pater's studies in the History of the Renaissance . It takes you without effort into a new world , and the singular theory of life which runs through it is simply an amusing feature in a series of ...
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... perfect archer calls the deer his own , While yet the shaft is whistling . Never sees failure , sees the mark alone . What times are little ? His keen eye " The time is great ! To the sentinel That hour is regal when he mounts on guard ...
... perfect archer calls the deer his own , While yet the shaft is whistling . Never sees failure , sees the mark alone . What times are little ? His keen eye " The time is great ! To the sentinel That hour is regal when he mounts on guard ...
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Page 245 - Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Page 271 - GLORY be to God on high, and in earth peace, good will towards men. We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty.
Page 196 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Page 245 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness...
Page 73 - Our voices took a higher range; Once more we sang: 'They do not die Nor lose their mortal sympathy, Nor change to us, although they change ; 'Rapt from the fickle and the frail With gather'd power, yet the same, Pierces the keen seraphic flame From orb to orb, from veil to veil.
Page 263 - And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say : for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
Page 248 - My spirit is too weak— mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep That I have not the cloudy winds to keep, Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain, Bring round the heart an...
Page 245 - Therefore on every morrow are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o'erdarkened ways Made for our searching. Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.
Page 18 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...