 ... whom continual washing cannot cleanse. It is the very same black mud out of which the yellow lily sucks its obscene life and noisome odor. Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances...  Kidd's Own Journal - Page 2531854Full view - About this book
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1876 - 424 pages
...says an American writer, " whence the white pond lily derives its loveliness and perfume, sprouting as it does from the black mud over which the river sleeps, and from which the yellow lily also draws its unclean life and noisome odour." So it is with many in this... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 pages
...plunging in. ' It is a marvel whence this perfect flower derives its loveliness and perfume, springing, as it does, from the black mud ^over which the river sleeps, and where lurk the slimy ecl, and speckled frog, and the mud-turtle, whom continual washing cannot cleanse. It is the same black... | |
 | A. P. Russell - 1879 - 412 pages
...nightingale, they say, sings with his breast against a thorn. The fragrant white pond lily springs from the same black mud out of which the yellow lily sucks its obscene life and noisome odor. An elephant, that no quadruped has the temerity to attack, is said to be the favorite victim of a worm... | |
 | 1926 - 682 pages
...he wrote, "whence this perfect flower derives its loveliness and perfume, springing as it does from the very same black mud out of which the yellow lily...the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results to the daily... | |
 | Hawthorne - 1882 - 574 pages
...plunging in. It is a marvel whence this perfect flower derives its loveliness and perfume, springing as it does from the black mud over which the river...the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results — the fragrance... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 574 pages
...plunging in. It is a marvel whence this perfect flower derives its loveliness and perfume, springing as it does from the black mud over which the river...the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results — the fragrance... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 580 pages
...plunging in. It is a marvel whence this perfect flower derives its loveliness and perfume, springing as it does from the black mud over which the river...the world that some persons assimilate only what is ngly and evil from the same moral circumstances which 1 ./supply good and beautiful results — the... | |
 | 1882 - 580 pages
...plunging in. It is a marvel whence this perfect flower derives its loveliness and perfume, springing as it does from the black mud over which the river...the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results — the fragrance... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 290 pages
...It is a marvel whence this perfect flower derives its loveliness and perfume, springing as it docs from the black mud over which the river sleeps, and...the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results — the fragrance... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 556 pages
...plunging in. It is a marvel whence this perfect flower derives its loveliness and perfume, springing as it does from the black mud over which the river...where lurk the slimy eel, and speckled frog, and the mud-turtle, whom continual washing cannot cleanse. It is the very same black mud out of which the yellow... | |
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