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Page 98 - pray and preach; He hears his daughter's voice Singing in the village choir And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like her mother's voice Singing in Paradise! He needs must think of her once more How in the grave she lies; And with his hard rough hand he wipes A tear out of his
Page 278 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament is in discourse, and for ability is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars one by one, but the general counsels
Page 278 - digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. Beading maketh a full man, conference a ready
Page 302 - Man is his own star, and the soul that can Kender an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate : Nothing to him falls early or too late, Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. Beaumont
Page 187 - where I will point out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming."—Milton.
Page 146 - to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been—! To climb the trackless mountain, all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold— Alone o'er
Page 235 - 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds So honour peereth in the meanest habit. What! is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful ? Or is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye.
Page 98 - Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, ) Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped ?ach burning deed and thought.
Page 190 - How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns. Milton,
Page 165 - them. They are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down may chance to spring up armed men. As good almost kill a man as kill a