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Page 91
... in its colossal potency , like that force of the earth's gravitation , against which the thin spear - points of a million . blades as they pierce the ground in spring , and the leaves and aspiring stems of forest trees , and all that is.
... in its colossal potency , like that force of the earth's gravitation , against which the thin spear - points of a million . blades as they pierce the ground in spring , and the leaves and aspiring stems of forest trees , and all that is.
Page 97
... , in its colossal potency , like that force of the earth's gravitation , against which the thin spear - points of a million blades as they pierce the ground in spring , and the leaves and aspiring stems of forest trees , and all that is.
... , in its colossal potency , like that force of the earth's gravitation , against which the thin spear - points of a million blades as they pierce the ground in spring , and the leaves and aspiring stems of forest trees , and all that is.
Page 124
... leaves them unvisited by conscientious qualms in the enjoyment of their champagne and their harlots . These two sections may pair off with each other ; and I believe that those who reject religion because it clogs vicious enjoyment are ...
... leaves them unvisited by conscientious qualms in the enjoyment of their champagne and their harlots . These two sections may pair off with each other ; and I believe that those who reject religion because it clogs vicious enjoyment are ...
Page 125
... leaf after leaf continues to change color and to fall , until , in midwinter , the branches again are bare . Such is the spiritual revolution which is at present taking place in Western Europe . It is hardly too much to say that , in ...
... leaf after leaf continues to change color and to fall , until , in midwinter , the branches again are bare . Such is the spiritual revolution which is at present taking place in Western Europe . It is hardly too much to say that , in ...
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... leaves - is vague , ineffectual , practically equivalent to unbelief . I would give all I have ever seen from Sterling's pen for a sight of what he said in elucidation and support of this the- sis . But his biographer , who permits him ...
... leaves - is vague , ineffectual , practically equivalent to unbelief . I would give all I have ever seen from Sterling's pen for a sight of what he said in elucidation and support of this the- sis . But his biographer , who permits him ...
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Page 287 - Ah ! who hath reft,' quoth he, ' my dearest pledge ? ' Last came, and last did go, The Pilot of the Galilean Lake ; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : ' How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies...
Page 319 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Page 294 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...
Page 281 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself...
Page 287 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Page 291 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Page 205 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...
Page 281 - Lo ! in the middle of the wood, ; The folded leaf is woo'd from out the bud With winds upon the branch, and there Grows green and broad, and takes no care, Sun-steep'd at noon, and in the moon Nightly dew-fed ; and turning yellow Falls, and floats adown the air.
Page 204 - Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Page 202 - Hall; Locksley Hall, that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts, And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.