Society and Solitude: Twelve ChaptersFields, Osgood, 1875 - 300 Seiten |
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Seite 175 - The mathematics and the metaphysics, Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you ; No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en : In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Seite 28 - These are traits, and measures, and mcdes ; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, — no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Seite 265 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower...
Seite 26 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Seite 221 - Ah Ben ! Say how or .when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
Seite 151 - They come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing; and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
Seite 123 - The food which was not, he causes to be. The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
Seite 157 - One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Seite 170 - But it is not less true that there are books which are of that importance in a man's private expericncc, as to verify for him the fables of Cornelius Agrippa, of Michael Scott, or of the old Orpheus of Thrace, — books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences...
Seite 248 - The rifle butt, or club of wood, Could stand no more than straws. George Nidiver stood still And looked him in the face ; The wild beast stopped amazed, Then came with slackening pace.