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... friends , don't we find it a dreary , loathesome job , to be genteelly worldly all the time , or , at the highest , maintaining a state of only tepid godliness ? We might be better - that's a fact - but we do have some good thoughts ...
... friends , don't we find it a dreary , loathesome job , to be genteelly worldly all the time , or , at the highest , maintaining a state of only tepid godliness ? We might be better - that's a fact - but we do have some good thoughts ...
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... friend ! Ah , John - John- why were you ever born ! During more than one Saturday afternoon , I have sat in this damp room of mine , hour after hour , listening , by turns , to the rain outside and to the laughter on the story above ...
... friend ! Ah , John - John- why were you ever born ! During more than one Saturday afternoon , I have sat in this damp room of mine , hour after hour , listening , by turns , to the rain outside and to the laughter on the story above ...
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... Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee , Nor named thee but to praise . Resolved , That a copy of these resolutions be sent to each afflicted relative of our late friend , and to the " Yale Literary Magazine , " with ...
... Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee , Nor named thee but to praise . Resolved , That a copy of these resolutions be sent to each afflicted relative of our late friend , and to the " Yale Literary Magazine , " with ...
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... friends in the Class . I see now that this may have been for the best . Happy it is for me that I have not been of sufficient consequence to attract the attention of this Thompson . I pity him . most profoundly . I wouldn't exchange ...
... friends in the Class . I see now that this may have been for the best . Happy it is for me that I have not been of sufficient consequence to attract the attention of this Thompson . I pity him . most profoundly . I wouldn't exchange ...
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... May point upward , ever upward , through the starless , hopeless night , To the land of the Hereafter , to the happy homes of light . 2 * VOL . XXVI.-NO. I. K. A A Curious Letter . MY DEAR FRIEND , - 1860. ] 17 LIFE - STATUES .
... May point upward , ever upward , through the starless , hopeless night , To the land of the Hereafter , to the happy homes of light . 2 * VOL . XXVI.-NO. I. K. A A Curious Letter . MY DEAR FRIEND , - 1860. ] 17 LIFE - STATUES .
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Page 124 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 124 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 232 - How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise, Who wears his manhood hale and green: And dare we to this fancy give, That had the wild oat not been sown, The soil, left barren, scarce had grown The grain by which a man may live...
Page 135 - SWEET AUBURN ! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Page 304 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 255 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Page 178 - Love is and was my Lord and King, And in his presence I attend To hear the tidings of my friend, Which every hour his couriers bring. Love is and was my King and Lord, And will be, tho...
Page 22 - When one would aim an arrow fair, But send it slackly from the string; And one would pierce an outer ring, And one an inner, here and there; And last the master-bowman, he, Would cleave the mark. A willing ear We lent him.
Page 123 - Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain; But since of late, Elizabeth And, later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been.
Page 44 - Old year, we'll dearly rue for you : What is it we can do for you ? Speak out before you die. His face is growing sharp and thin. Alack ! our friend is gone. Close up his eyes : tie up his chin : Step from the corpse, and let him in That standeth there alone, And waiteth at the door. There's a new foot on the floor, my friend, And a new face at the door, my friend, A new face at the door.