My Study WindowsHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1913 - 433 páginas |
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... genius of solitude . A pair of pewees have built immemorially on a jutting brick in the arched entrance to the ice - house . Always on the same brick , and never more than a single pair , though two broods of five each are raised there ...
... genius of solitude . A pair of pewees have built immemorially on a jutting brick in the arched entrance to the ice - house . Always on the same brick , and never more than a single pair , though two broods of five each are raised there ...
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... genius of the place . The ancients were certainly more social than we , though that , perhaps , was natural enough , when a good part of the world was still covered with forest . They huddled together in cities as well for safety as to ...
... genius of the place . The ancients were certainly more social than we , though that , perhaps , was natural enough , when a good part of the world was still covered with forest . They huddled together in cities as well for safety as to ...
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James Russell Lowell. genius , and not only English , but European literature is largely in his debt . He was the inventor of cheap amusement for the million , to be had of All - out - doors for the asking . It was his impulse which ...
James Russell Lowell. genius , and not only English , but European literature is largely in his debt . He was the inventor of cheap amusement for the million , to be had of All - out - doors for the asking . It was his impulse which ...
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... genius too , the gifts of Spring ? Goethe , so far as I remember , was the first to notice the cheerfulness of snow in sunshine . His Harz - reise im Winter gives no hint of it , for that is a diluted reminis- cence of Greek tragic ...
... genius too , the gifts of Spring ? Goethe , so far as I remember , was the first to notice the cheerfulness of snow in sunshine . His Harz - reise im Winter gives no hint of it , for that is a diluted reminis- cence of Greek tragic ...
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... genius to be a Bobbin - Boy , or doubtless all these also would have chosen that more prosperous line of life ! But moralists , sociologists , political economists , and taxes have slowly convinced me that my beggarly sympathies were a ...
... genius to be a Bobbin - Boy , or doubtless all these also would have chosen that more prosperous line of life ! But moralists , sociologists , political economists , and taxes have slowly convinced me that my beggarly sympathies were a ...
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Página 411 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Página 404 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Página 406 - water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air.
Página 416 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 409 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 343 - And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him : and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
Página 411 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Página 412 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
Página 412 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 403 - With slaughtering guns the unwearied fowler roves, When frosts have whiten'd all the naked groves ; Where doves in flocks the leafless trees o'ershade, And lonely woodcocks haunt the watery glade. He lifts the tube, and levels with his eye ; Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky : Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamorous lapwings feel the leaden death : Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare, They fall, and leave their little lives in air...