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Page 372 - Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.
Page 362 - WE talked with open heart, and tongue Affectionate and true, A pair of friends, though I was young, And Matthew seventy-two. We lay beneath a spreading oak, Beside a mossy seat; And from the turf a fountain broke, And gurgled at our feet. 'Now, Matthew...
Page 31 - Louis sitting, with more dignity than I expected from his character, in a hackney coach, going to meet death, where so many of his race have triumphed. My fancy instantly brought Louis XIV before me, entering the capital with all his pomp, after one of the victories most flattering to his pride, only to see the sunshine of prosperity overshadowed by the sublime gloom of misery. I have been alone ever since; and, though my mind is calm, I cannot dismiss...
Page 30 - ... which rendered the stillness more awful — through empty streets surrounded by the National Guards who clustering round the carriage seemed to deserve their name. The inhabitants flocked to their windows, but the casements were all shut; not a voice was heard, nor did I see anything like an insulting gesture. For the first time since I entered France I bowed to the majesty of the people and respected the propriety of behaviour so perfectly in unison with my own feelings.
Page 159 - ... of science than of all these put together, yet was not really scientific. But on almost all subjects conceivable he had read enough to talk brilliantly, without any inconvenient doubt of his entirely sufficient equipment. To young men, still in course of formation, this corruscating person, ten years older than ourselves, but young in mind, and a born leader of men, came as a kind of revelation. We had never met any one like him, nor indeed have I ever since encountered any one so impressive...
Page 346 - And this is all that is known, and more than all, — yet nothing to what the angels know, — of the life of a servant of God, who sinned and repented, and did penance and washed out his sins, and became a Saint, and reigns with Christ in heaven.
Page 159 - ... solemnity and gloom which were quite alien to the nature of the man as his friends knew him. No doubt like most persons of exuberant temperament, Kingsley had his moments of deep depression, and he was towards the end of his life a disappointed man, but at the time of which I speak he was characterized by a sunny joyousness, an abounding vitality, and a contagious energy which were most attractive. He was in no sense a learned man, nor a sound scholar, nor a deep theologian, nor a well-read historian...
Page 364 - ... a definite message when all my mind was clouded with a doubt. I resigned my living, and came to London to take up a literary life. Now, for the first time during many years, I was able to consider my position calmly and fairly. While doing my duties as best I could, it had not been easy to realize how completely I had fallen away from the faith. Now, as a layman, with no external obligation to use words in which it was necessary to find some meaning consistent with my opinions, the whole Services...
Page 130 - There, for the first time, I heard a chanted " Cathedral Service," and weekday prayers in church without the weariness of a sermon ; there, in 1841, such of us boys who were inclined to think, and who read the newspapers, became conscious of the great stir in Church matters which was going on at Oxford ; a few of our masters were falling under the influence of the new theology, and this could not be without its effect on the boys. It had its bearing on our minds, but to an extremely limited...
Page 372 - I had light enough to attend Mass pretty frequently, but even then was not definitely Catholic in my belief and sympathies. There was one of my own family, having a right to speak, who distrusted my evident leanings, not so much from want of sympathy with religion, as from a fear that as my opinions had been so long in a state of change, this also might be a passing phase.