The Solitudes of Nature and of Man: Or, The Loneliness of Human LifeRoberts Brothers, 1867 - 412 páginas |
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... authority of well - mastered experience , are the best qualities in a teacher . In dealing with the affairs of the heart , every form of unfeelingness is an offence . It is by drawing out and satisfying , not by freezing or searing , the.
... authority of well - mastered experience , are the best qualities in a teacher . In dealing with the affairs of the heart , every form of unfeelingness is an offence . It is by drawing out and satisfying , not by freezing or searing , the.
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... experience of solitude , and long brooding over it , contributed much to the value of his work ; which is comprehensive in survey , rich in learning , penetrative in thought , vivid in sentiment , and eloquent in diction . On the other ...
... experience of solitude , and long brooding over it , contributed much to the value of his work ; which is comprehensive in survey , rich in learning , penetrative in thought , vivid in sentiment , and eloquent in diction . On the other ...
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... experience , and are more difficult of attainment as attributes of character . But it is better to lift the eye than to curl the lip . The aphorism of Lavater is good : Trust him little who smilingly praises all alike , him less who ...
... experience , and are more difficult of attainment as attributes of character . But it is better to lift the eye than to curl the lip . The aphorism of Lavater is good : Trust him little who smilingly praises all alike , him less who ...
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... experience is more purely a moral result , it is , in most cases , the product of a too magnified opin- ion of self combined with a too acute feeling of that opinion . Exactingness is the bane , renunciation the antidote . Self ...
... experience is more purely a moral result , it is , in most cases , the product of a too magnified opin- ion of self combined with a too acute feeling of that opinion . Exactingness is the bane , renunciation the antidote . Self ...
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... experience comes over him when his steed wearily penetrates the rank grass among the mounds of Copan and Palenque , the riddle of whose forgotten civ- ilization baffles every guesser who inspects its remains , where the luxuriant ...
... experience comes over him when his steed wearily penetrates the rank grass among the mounds of Copan and Palenque , the riddle of whose forgotten civ- ilization baffles every guesser who inspects its remains , where the luxuriant ...
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Página 248 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 248 - I DID but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs...
Página 293 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them...
Página 284 - There is One great society alone on earth : The noble Living and the noble Dead.
Página 55 - Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas, on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart ; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his way, As the far bell of vesper makes him start, Seeming to weep the dying day's decay.
Página 72 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more...
Página 248 - Aleian field I fall Erroneous there to wander and forlorn. Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Within the visible diurnal sphere; Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit's!
Página 77 - Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes : and some of them ye shall kill and crucify ; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city...
Página 295 - I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour : my name, which had been a knightly or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.
Página 274 - Has shone within me, that serenely now And moveless, as a long-forgotten lyre Suspended in the solitary dome Of some mysterious and deserted fane, I wait thy breath, Great Parent, that my strain May modulate with murmurs of the air, And motions of the forests and the sea, And voice of living beings, and woven hymns Of night and day, and the deep heart of man.