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... secret converse which we hold with our silent yet eloquent books , is the source of the truest delight that we can experience . They are as the good angels that cheer onr solitary hours with blessed and peaceful thoughts ; and like [ 3 ]
... secret converse which we hold with our silent yet eloquent books , is the source of the truest delight that we can experience . They are as the good angels that cheer onr solitary hours with blessed and peaceful thoughts ; and like [ 3 ]
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... hours of life , When the mind with health and vigour is rife , Are spent by our fellows , who reckless sow O'er the fields of the future the seeds of woe . Yet , say , should we not our voices raise To tell them how dark are their evil ...
... hours of life , When the mind with health and vigour is rife , Are spent by our fellows , who reckless sow O'er the fields of the future the seeds of woe . Yet , say , should we not our voices raise To tell them how dark are their evil ...
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... hour , without fear or pride . For we know that Death is the lot of all ; We know that the grass and the tree must fall We know that the garden - blossoms decay : And we know that the wild flowers pass away . BRIEF NOTICE OF THE ...
... hour , without fear or pride . For we know that Death is the lot of all ; We know that the grass and the tree must fall We know that the garden - blossoms decay : And we know that the wild flowers pass away . BRIEF NOTICE OF THE ...
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... hour before the time appointed for service , namely six , but was surprised to find the little chapel already thronged , and still filling , with people crowding in to secure places , having a closer resemblance to a theatre on a ...
... hour before the time appointed for service , namely six , but was surprised to find the little chapel already thronged , and still filling , with people crowding in to secure places , having a closer resemblance to a theatre on a ...
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... hour , -to the contemplation of what is of far more importance than all these - the day of your death ? Alas ! I fear not . There is a worldly heart - hardness about our corrupted nature which disinclines us to these things . Man walks ...
... hour , -to the contemplation of what is of far more importance than all these - the day of your death ? Alas ! I fear not . There is a worldly heart - hardness about our corrupted nature which disinclines us to these things . Man walks ...
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Popular passages
Page 2 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 269 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Page 2 - And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 73 - We depart, We vanish from the sky ; Ask what is deathless in thy heart, For that which cannot die." Speak then, thou voice of God within, Thou of the deep, low tone ! Answer me, through life's restless din, Where is the spirit flown ? And the voice answer'd — "Be thou still! Enough to know is given ; Clouds, winds, and stars their part fulfil, Thine is to trust in Heaven.
Page 73 - WORDSWORTH. ANSWER me, burning stars of night ! Where is the spirit gone, That past the reach of human sight, As a swift breeze hath flown ? — And the stars answered me — " We roll In light and power on high ; But, of the never-dying soul, Ask that which cannot die.
Page 130 - And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire : ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
Page 70 - There is inconsistency and something of the child's propensities still in mankind. A piece of mechanism, as a watch, a barometer, or a dial, will fix attention — a man will make journeys to see an engine stamp a coin, or turn a block ; yet the organs through which he has a thousand sources of enjoyment, and which are in themselves more exquisite in design and more curious both in contrivance and in mechanism, do not enter his thoughts...
Page 129 - ... subjected the minds of the greatest poets in those countries too much to the bondage of definite form; from which the Hebrews were preserved by their abhorrence of idolatry. This abhorrence was almost as strong in our great epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitution of his mind. However imbued the surface might be with classical literature, he was a Hebrew in soul; and all things tended in him towards the sublime.
Page 2 - tis but the lees And settlings of a melancholy blood; 810 But this will cure all straight, one sip of this Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight Beyond the bliss of dreams.
Page 35 - Creator, and to communicate to his creatures, he ordained in his eternal counsel, that one person of the Godhead should be united to one nature, and to one particular of his creatures ; that so, in the person of the Mediator, the true ladder might be fixed, whereby God might descend to his creatures, and his creatures might ascend to...