The Pleasures of Life, Zväzok 1Macmillan, 1897 |
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... I sleep on the ground ; I have no wife , no children , no prætorium , but only the earth and heavens , and one poor cloak . And what do I want ? Am I not without sorrow ? Am I not without fear THE DUTY OF HAPPINESS 23.
... I sleep on the ground ; I have no wife , no children , no prætorium , but only the earth and heavens , and one poor cloak . And what do I want ? Am I not without sorrow ? Am I not without fear THE DUTY OF HAPPINESS 23.
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... has such things to think on , and sees the sun , the moon , and stars , and enjoys earth and sea , he is not solitary or even helpless . " 1 1 Epictetus . 16 ' Paradise indeed might , " as Luther said 26 СНАР . THE PLEASURES OF LIFE.
... has such things to think on , and sees the sun , the moon , and stars , and enjoys earth and sea , he is not solitary or even helpless . " 1 1 Epictetus . 16 ' Paradise indeed might , " as Luther said 26 СНАР . THE PLEASURES OF LIFE.
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... earth Would be for men the blest abode of mirth If they were strong in Thee As other things of this world well are seen ; Oh then , far other than they yet have been , How happy would men be . " KING ALFRED's ed . of Boethius's ...
... earth Would be for men the blest abode of mirth If they were strong in Thee As other things of this world well are seen ; Oh then , far other than they yet have been , How happy would men be . " KING ALFRED's ed . of Boethius's ...
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... earth and goodwill amongst men . " Nothing , again , can do more to release us from the cares of this world , which consume so much of our time , and embitter so much of our life . When we have done our best , we should wait the result ...
... earth and goodwill amongst men . " Nothing , again , can do more to release us from the cares of this world , which consume so much of our time , and embitter so much of our life . When we have done our best , we should wait the result ...
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... , " contentedly sways the sceptre of himself , not envying the glory to crowned heads and Elohim of the earth ; " for those are really highest who are nearest to heaven , and those are lowest who I D 11 35 THE HAPPINESS OF DUTY.
... , " contentedly sways the sceptre of himself , not envying the glory to crowned heads and Elohim of the earth ; " for those are really highest who are nearest to heaven , and those are lowest who I D 11 35 THE HAPPINESS OF DUTY.
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advantage Analects of Confucius Anaxagoras asked Bacon beautiful better blessing blue bright CHAPTER charm Cicero Cimabue clouds color dark death delightful demnation doubt earth Emerson enjoy Epictetus Ernest Rhys eternal evil feel flowers friends give glad company glorious glory Greek hand happiness heart heaven hope hour human idea infinite interest Irish Elk Jeremy Taylor labour landscape light live look Marcus Aurelius ment Milton mind Moreover nature never night noble ourselves pain peace perhaps Phocion Plato pleasure Plutarch poet Poetry proverb realise religion rest rich says Ruskin scenery seems Shakespeare Socrates song sorrow soul spirit stars suffer sure sweet tells things Thomas à Kempis thou thought tion troubles true truth watch wise wonder words Wordsworth Zeuxis and Parrhasius
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Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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
Strana 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
Strana 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.