The Pleasures of Life, Volume 1Macmillan, 1897 |
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Page 143 - We should then be, to a great extent, independent of external circumstances, for " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. " If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free ; Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.
Page 180 - in her tender affection for the little Chapel at Cahuze, where she tells us she left "tant de miseres." Doubt does not exclude faith. , " Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 81 - Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not: " Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view." We speak now of the poet as the Maker or
Page 85 - The Milton of poetry is the man, in his own magnificent phrase, of devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 133 - We generally speak of a beautiful night when it is calm and clear, and the stars shine brightly overhead; but how grand also are the wild ways of Nature, how magnificent when the lightning flashes, " between gloom and glory " ; when " From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder.
Page 50 - and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True ! a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field, And with a stronger faith emhrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore, I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 227 - And their going from us to be utter destruction; but they are in peace. " For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality. "And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded : for God proved them, and found them worthy
Page 40 - leave their faithful companion. Then at the last moment the Angel at the door relents, and their Dog is allowed to enter with them. We may hope the time will come when we shall learn " Never to blend our pleasure or our pride, With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels." 1 But at the present moment I am
Page 97 - power even over the inanimate forces of Nature. Shakespeare accounts for shooting stars by the attraction of Music : " The rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the Sea-maid's Music.