 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 pages
...regard for the memory of the illustrious dead. CHAPTER VII. DUTY — TRUTHFULNESS. " I slept, and dreamt that life was Beauty ; I woke, and found that life was Duty." " Duty ! wondrous thought, that workest neither by fond insinuation, flattery, nor by any threat, but... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...his only friend, Granting leave to live in pain, Giving strength to toil in vain. JOHN CLARE. DUTY. I SLEPT and dreamed that life was Beauty : I woke and found that life was Duty : Was then thy dream a shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be... | |
 | 1877 - 652 pages
...would like to know who is the author of the following lines, and where they are to be found : — ' I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty ; I woke, and found that life waa duty.' QUESTIONS ANSWERED. Grouse. — The black gown was worn by the preaching monks and friars,... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1879 - 634 pages
...from you, before yon are quite twenty-five. Don't you remember old Miss Sims' favourite lines ? — '"I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty ; I woke,...thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee ! ' " CHAPTER XIII. THE DINNER PARTY. THERE were great preparations at Cleveland House for the entertainment... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1879 - 598 pages
...engulfing seas." HDW 48. Please explain Exod, vii. 3 and Heb. vi. 4-6. CJF 49. Author wanted of lines — " I slept and dreamed that life was beauty ; I woke and found that life was duty." SHS 49. Please to reconcile 2 Kings xvii. 32, 33 with verse 34. CAICS. 50. WSK (Orkney) wants to know... | |
 | Rev. James Wells - 1879 - 320 pages
...is only when we have a wrong notion of beauty that we can use the poet's words, "I slept and dreamt that life was beauty ; I woke and found that life was duty. " The grace of God is the grand beautifier. It makes people graceful, that is both good and beautiful.... | |
 | Russell Lant Carpenter - 1880 - 426 pages
...which we took the composing-stick in hand for the first time, and set up those beautiful lines : — ' I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty. I woke,...thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee. ' * Our press was a rickety old wooden instrument, and our type was worn, and none of us understood... | |
 | Russell Lant Carpenter - 1880 - 420 pages
...which we took the composing-stick in hand for the first time, and set up those beautiful lines : — ' I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty. I woke,...shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shall find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee.' * Our press was a rickety old wooden... | |
 | 1880 - 636 pages
...darling, siy farewell and go I ' I would take great care of them. — Vixen. ' I slept, and dreamt that life was beauty ; I woke ; and found that life...duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie ? Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly, And thou shalt find thy dream to bo A truth and noonday light to thee.' The... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1880 - 463 pages
...healthy. Life will be neither a drudgery nor a dream, but will become full of God's life and love. " I slept, and dreamed that Life was Beauty, I woke, and found that Life was Duty. Was my dream, then, a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, — ' And thou shalt find thy dream... | |
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I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee... 
