A Doubting Heart, 第 1 卷

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Macmillan, 1879 - 368 頁
 

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第 18 頁 - Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth ; I know transplanted human worth Will bloom to profit, otherwhere. For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart : He put our lives so far apart cannot hear each other speak.
第 283 頁 - LET others seek for empty joys, At ball, or concert, rout, or play ; Whilst, far from fashion's idle noise, Her gilded domes, and trappings gay, I while the wintry eve away, — 'Twixt book and lute the hours divide ; And marvel how I e'er could stray From thee — my own Fireside! My own Fireside ! Those simple words Can bid the sweetest dreams arise ; Awaken feeling's tenderest chords, And fill with tears of joy...
第 106 頁 - OR ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love, And when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between, and bid us part: Bid us sigh on from day to day, And wish, and wish the soul away; Till youth and genial years are flown, And all the life of life...
第 188 頁 - Much like a subtle spider which doth sit, In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide ; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side.
第 160 頁 - PITY would be no more If we did not make somebody Poor; And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as we. And mutual fear brings peace, Till the selfish loves increase: Then Cruelty knits a snare And spreads his baits with care.
第 261 頁 - Thou knowest well first, whoso can seek to please, Shall purchase friends, where truth shall but offend : Flee therefore truth, it is both wealth and ease. For though that truth of every man hath praise, Full near that wind goeth truth in great misease. Use Virtue, as it goeth now-a-days, In word alone, to make thy language sweet : And of thy deed yet do not as thou says ; Else be thou sure, thou shalt be far unmeet To get thy bread ; each thing is now so scant, Seek still thy profit upon thy bare...
第 139 頁 - ... ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to Love, And when we meet a mutual heart Come in between, and bid us part ? Bid us sigh on from day to day, And wish and wish the soul away; Till youth and genial years are flown, And all the life of life is gone ? But busy, busy, still art thou, To bind the loveless joyless vow, The heart from pleasure to delude, To join the gentle to the rude.
第 84 頁 - Great, Where Love's dear name is sold ; Yet have we wealth we would not give For all their world of gold ! We revel not in Corn and Wine, Yet have we from above Manna divine, and we 'll not pine, While we may live and love.
第 131 頁 - nocturnal " father that deep scar, which intersected his whole forehead in a slanting direction, and which I did not notice until I moved closer to him. Before I had had time to impart to the baron the name of the street...
第 222 頁 - Babel filed with buzz and whirr, Huge, gloomy, black and gritty; Dark-louring looks the hill-side near, Dark-yawning looks the valley, — But here 'tis always fresh and clear, For here — is

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