The Young Lady's HomeS. Babcock, 1839 - 369 pagine |
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Pagina 291 - Man that is bom of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower."
Pagina 291 - voice from Heaven, saying unto me, Write, from henceforth, blessed are the dead which . die in the Lord. Even so, saith the Spirit; for they rest from their labors."
Pagina 69 - He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long resounding pace.
Pagina 61 - with gold, Hung drooping unsustained; them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless the while Herself, though fairest unsupported flower, From her best prop so far, and storm so nigh." The nomenclature of this science is rather difficult to learn; but that obstacle once overcome, all the rest is delightful.
Pagina 61 - Veiled in a cloud of fragrance— ■ oft stooping to support Each flower of tender stalk, whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or speck'd with gold, Hung drooping unsustained; them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless the while Herself, though fairest unsupported flower, From her best prop so far, and storm so nigh.
Pagina 70 - Hark, his hands the lyre explore ! Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn." Sir William Temple, Locke, Stillingfleet, and Tillotson, are among the elegant prose writers of
Pagina 68 - He gives a living picture of all the most minute and secret artifices by which a feeling steals into our souls; of all the imperceptible advantages which it there gains; of all the stratagems by which every other passion is made subservient to it, till it becomes the sole tyrant of our desires and our aversions.
Pagina 214 - ideas wholly out of any question, because I well know that under that name, I should dismiss principles; and that without the guide of sound well-understood principles, all reasonings would be only a confused jumble of particular facts and details, without the means of drawing out any sort of theoretical or practical
Pagina 38 - So should we live, that every hour May die as dies the natural flower,— A self-reviving thing of power; That every thought and every deed May hold within itself the seed Of future good and future meed.