The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of CharacterS. Low, Son, & Marston, 1870 - 406 sider |
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The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of Character James Hain Friswell Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1870 |
The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of Character James Hain Friswell Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1870 |
The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of Character James Hain Friswell Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1870 |
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Side 289 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Side 334 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between. But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Side 216 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone...
Side 338 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay ; To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse ; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Side 191 - Yet it shall be: thou shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathize with clay. As the husband is, the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.