The Afternoon of Unmarried LifeRudd and Carliton, 1859 - 14 páginas |
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accidie advantage affect Afternoon of Unmarried appears attention BABIE BELL BEATRICE CENCI beauty believe better blessings Bourdaloue calm cause celibacy charity Christian cold comfort companions confess creature degree Divine divine grace doubt duty earthly evil external faith fear feel fellow-creatures felt folly friends frivolous give grace grief habits happiness heart holy hope human nature imagination inclined influence instincts intellect interest Jeremy Taylor less light Little Dorrit look married means ment middle age mind Muslin neglect ness object old maids once opinion ourselves pain passion pathy peace perhaps person pity pleasant poor prayer price $1 reason relâche religious seems seldom selfish sigh society sometimes sorrow soul speak spirit suffer sure taste temper things THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH thou thought tion tone torpor trifling truth uncon unhappy vanity weakness weary wisdom wish woman women words young youth
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Página 181 - It is not denied, but gladly confessed, we are to send our thanks and vows to heaven louder than most of nations for that great measure of truth which we enjoy, especially in those main points between us and the Pope with his appurtenances the prelates ; but he who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal...
Página 212 - EARTH, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood ! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel Your love, and recompense the boon with mine ; If dewy morn, and odorous noon, and even, With sunset and its gorgeous ministers, And solemn midnight's tingling silentness ; If autumn's hollow sighs in the sere wood, And winter robing with pure snow and crowns Of starry ice the grey grass and bare boughs; If spring's voluptuous pantings when she breathes Her first sweet kisses...
Página 249 - M'ôter, pour faire bien, du grenier de céans Cette longue lunette à faire peur aux gens, Et cent brimborions dont l'aspect importune; Ne point aller chercher ce qu'on fait dans la lune, Et vous mêler un peu de ce qu'on fait chez vous, Où nous voyons aller tout sens dessus dessous.
Página 303 - We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification.
Página 185 - The deeds we do, the words we say, — Into still air they seem to fleet, We count them ever past; But they shall last,— In the dread judgment they And we shall meet.
Página 142 - Mrs. General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent It from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves, or rails, on which she started little trains of other people's opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere. Even her propriety could not dispute that there was impropriety in the world; but Mrs. General's way of getting rid of It was to put it out of sight, and make believe that there was no such thing.
Página 165 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.