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Popular passages
Page 287 - We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky : The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Eoom to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us daily nearer God.
Page 210 - Oh how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumber'd plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to clog the pile ; From ostentation, as from weakness, free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness of a star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words — BELIEVE, AND LIVE.
Page 58 - Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves — not dead — but gone before, He gathers round him...
Page 154 - SOMETHING the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn, Something with passion clasp, or perish, And in itself to ashes burn.
Page 287 - Seek not to know to-morrow's doom ; That is not ours which is to come. The present moment's all our store ; The next should Heav'n allow, Then this will be no more : So all our life is but one instant now.
Page 8 - Their chains were as follows. Each man wears a strong leather girth round him above the hips. To this are secured the upper ends of two chains. One chain of four long and heavy links descends to a kind of double ring fixed round the ankle. The second chain consists of eight links, each of the same weight and length with the four, and this unites the two prisoners together, so that they can stand about six feet apart. Neither of these chains is ever undone day or night.
Page 49 - A woman's love, we know — not yet avowed, Solicited, or bruited to the world — Is so o'erruled by virgin purity, And dignity serene of womanhood, It is a harmless guest. A pleasing fear, It plays observed upon the verge of thought, Like silent lightuing in a summer sky, Whose lambent beauty does but hint the power Which may some other time be perilous.
Page 154 - Nature never made A heart all marble ; — but in its fissures, sows The wild flower, Love, from whose rich seeds spring forth A world of mercies and sweet charities ! CHAPTER III.
Page 80 - Once at our house, amidst our Attic feasts, We liken'd our Acquaintances to Beasts ; As for example — some to calves and hogs, And some to bears and monkeys, cats and dogs. We said (which charm'd the Doctor much, no doubt), His Mind was like of Elephants the Snout, That could pick pins up, yet possess'd the vigour For trimming well the jacket of a Tiger.
Page 190 - But it is not the will of God ! it is not the will of God...