The Young in HeartHoughton, Mifflin, 1907 - 238 pages |
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Page 164 - Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.
Page 5 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Page 165 - Do you understand me ?" God knows; I should think it highly improbable. The cruellest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
Page 30 - There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert : whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed ; failure is the fate allotted.
Page 76 - Fearful to lose our little place, We dare not venture far To welcome others of our race, Men of the self-same star. Eager to win beyond our ranks, We trample others down, And pressing o'er them murmur thanks, Our eyes upon the crown. And yet we bear no enmity ; " It 's life," we sadly say; "We would be genial, open, free To all men as the day.
Page 76 - a life," we sadly say ; " We would be genial, open, free To all men as the day. " This armor that doth make us safe, This visor to the eye, We feel their weight, we feel them chafe, We fain would put them by." And when we come to our green field, Far from the strife of town, Forthwith in gentleness we yield And lay that armor down. The touch of flannels to our skin, Of grass beneath our feet, Of sun at throat may help us win Safe post the judgment seat.
Page 149 - I built St. Petersburg as a window to let in the light of Europe.
Page 202 - Rag' screen, overheaped with shreds and tatters raked from ' the Charnel-house of Nature, where they would have 2 o ' rotted, to rot on me more slowly ! Day after day, I ' must thatch myself anew ; day after day, this despicable ' thatch must lose some film of its thickness ; some film ' of it, frayed away by tear and wear, must be brushed...
Page 209 - ... presently." The musical sincerity of her " Oh no, not I ! " sped through his limbs ; he had a willingness to go onward still some way. But his words fastened the heavy land on her spirit, knocked at the habit of obedience. Her stroke of the arms paused. She inclined to his example, and he set it shoreward. They swam silently, high, low, creatures of the smooth green roller. He heard the water-song of her swimming.
Page 93 - Americans, after our day's work is done, take our rest in further action, our relaxation in excitement. Yet were the many thousands for whom the theatre furnishes the most frequent evening's amusement to stroll or sit out under the stars, entertaining such thoughts and dreams as come, they would put their souls and minds into better order for the slumber of the night and for the work of the next day.