The Lamp, Volume 26Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903 |
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Page 429 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 347 - We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing' fails To remove the shadowy screen.
Page 15 - Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body. Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. From pride, ignorance, or fashion, our foes are almost as many as our readers; and while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England...
Page 355 - I expect to pass through this world but once ; if, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do, to any fellow human being, let me do it now ; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Page 153 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 365 - Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die,* Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh?
Page 366 - THEY sat and combed their beautiful hair, Their long bright tresses, one by one. As they laughed and talked in the chamber there, After the revel was done. Idly they talked of waltz and quadrille; Idly they laughed like other girls, Who over the fire, when all is still, Comb out their braids and curls.
Page 185 - Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Page 479 - Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might" infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in a focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
Page 429 - I WALK down the Valley of Silence — Down the dim, voiceless valley — alone! And I hear not the fall of a footstep Around me, save God's and my own; And the hush of my heart is as holy As hovers where angels have flown! Long ago was I weary of voices Whose music my heart could not win; Long ago was I weary of noises That fretted my soul with their din; Long ago was I weary of places Where I met but the human— and sin.