The Atlantic Monthly, Volumen95Atlantic Monthly Company, 1905 |
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... walk , I would sit and sleep , with natural piety . What if I could pray aloud , or to myself , as I went along by the brookside , a cheerful prayer , like the birds ! For joy I could embrace the earth . I shall delight to be buried in ...
... walk , I would sit and sleep , with natural piety . What if I could pray aloud , or to myself , as I went along by the brookside , a cheerful prayer , like the birds ! For joy I could embrace the earth . I shall delight to be buried in ...
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... walking companion ( Channing , presum- ably ) and himself had often compared notes about it , concluding after experi- ments that the duration of a shoetie might be made to serve as a reasonably accurate unit of measure , as accurate ...
... walking companion ( Channing , presum- ably ) and himself had often compared notes about it , concluding after experi- ments that the duration of a shoetie might be made to serve as a reasonably accurate unit of measure , as accurate ...
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... walk and recover the lost child that I am without any ring- ing of a bell . " For real warmth , when once the fire burns , who can exceed our stoic ? ---- - We like , also , his bits of prettiness , things in which he is second to ...
... walk and recover the lost child that I am without any ring- ing of a bell . " For real warmth , when once the fire burns , who can exceed our stoic ? ---- - We like , also , his bits of prettiness , things in which he is second to ...
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... walks as if he sustained the roof ; he carries his arms as if the walls would fall in and crush him , and his feet ... walk the gracefuller for a cane , as the juggler uses a leaded pole to balance him when he dances on a slack wire ...
... walks as if he sustained the roof ; he carries his arms as if the walls would fall in and crush him , and his feet ... walk the gracefuller for a cane , as the juggler uses a leaded pole to balance him when he dances on a slack wire ...
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... walk the freest through the air we breathe . Wednesday , December 29 , 1841 . One does not soon learn the trade of life . That one may work out a true life requires more art and delicate skill than any other work . There is need of the ...
... walk the freest through the air we breathe . Wednesday , December 29 , 1841 . One does not soon learn the trade of life . That one may work out a true life requires more art and delicate skill than any other work . There is need of the ...
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Página 258 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 646 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers...
Página 265 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Página 341 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Página 559 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Página 657 - Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepit standard out, Marked with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau...
Página 9 - And in poetry, no less than in life, he is * a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
Página 265 - To try and approach truth on one side after another, not to strive or cry, nor to persist in pressing forward, on any one side, with violence and self-will — it is only thus, it seems to me, that mortals may hope to gain any vision of the mysterious Goddess, whom we shall never see except in outline, but only thus even in outline.
Página 10 - ... he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise. It cost him nothing to say No; indeed he found it much easier than to say Yes. It seemed as if his first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit, of course, is a little chilling to the social affections; and...
Página 109 - The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken; The word by seers or sibyls told In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost.