The Reflections of a Married ManC. Scribner's Sons, 1893 - 165 pages |
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Page 161 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Page 110 - Not once or twice in our rough island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory: He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses.
Page 8 - ... shoes in the one above seep down the necks of the luckless ones in the cage below. My introduction to that strange world of workers who make their living beneath the surface of the earth was both speedy and dramatic. Together with eight other miners, I was crowded into the last of the three cages, and if I live to be a hundred I shall never forget the roar of profanity that immediately assailed my ears. Every last man in each cage was bellowing curses at the top of his voice. Day after day the...
Page 109 - Josephine one evening, as we were sitting side by side on the sofa after our darling critics had gone to bed—" One would suppose that you and I, in the bygone days, had never sailed the seas of fantasy with the Corsair, or apostrophized solitude on the mountain-top with Childe Harold; that we had bowed in the dust before ancestral dogma, and clung to the belief that the 'Animals went in two by two, the elephant and the kangaroo...
Page 64 - This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise. Commingled are they with that caitiff choir Of Angels, who have not rebellious been, Nor faithful were to God, but were for self. The heavens expelled them, not to be less fair; Nor them the nethermore abyss receives, For glory none the damned would have from them.
Page 85 - On the top of the Crumpetty Tree The Quangle Wangle sat, But his face you could not see, On account of his Beaver Hat. For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide, With ribbons and bibbons on every side...
Page 118 - Happy is the benedict who feels that hia vacation is incomplete without the society of his gentle spouse! Happy too is the spouse who is not so gentle as to be deterred by bugaboos in the shape of fears of what may befall her children during her absence, or by antipathy for the discomforts of the pathless woods from accompanying her husband! It is wellnigh impossible to overcome the nervousness of many women sufficiently to induce them to leave home for more than a day or two at a time. There is,...
Page 73 - I asked myself the question, if it could possibly be that she expected me to clasp her in my arms and fold her to my breast after the manner of M. de Camors and other worthies ; but I dismissed the idea as out of the question. Had it been Mrs. Willoughby Walton — absit omen; but it was sacrilege even to formulate such an idea concerning Mrs. Guy Sloane. " She would have screamed if you had, and there would have been a terrible scene, and she would never have spoken to you again," said Josephine,...