The Open Fire: And Other EssaysAbingdon Press, 1922 - 346 páginas |
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... pictures ! what activity ! how social ! You are not permitted to forget it for a moment . How it responds when you nudge it . How it rejoices when you feed it . Why , an open fire in your room is a whole literature . It supplements your ...
... pictures ! what activity ! how social ! You are not permitted to forget it for a moment . How it responds when you nudge it . How it rejoices when you feed it . Why , an open fire in your room is a whole literature . It supplements your ...
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... picture in " Saul " of the channel where " the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well . ” Most of us have a brook flowing through the green fields of memory . There is a New Jersey brook which forever makes music to the man ...
... picture in " Saul " of the channel where " the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well . ” Most of us have a brook flowing through the green fields of memory . There is a New Jersey brook which forever makes music to the man ...
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... pictures of the good that are every- where more apt to be preserved . Quite typical is a pleasing seventeenth - century picture which shows us Robert Herrick , the master among Eng- lish poets of pastoral lyrics and tender love verses ...
... pictures of the good that are every- where more apt to be preserved . Quite typical is a pleasing seventeenth - century picture which shows us Robert Herrick , the master among Eng- lish poets of pastoral lyrics and tender love verses ...
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... picture of Thomas Jefferson , with the hearth light on his face , reading the Gospels before the fire on win- ter evenings and getting therefrom the ethical ideas which went into the Declaration of Inde- pendence . A later American picture ...
... picture of Thomas Jefferson , with the hearth light on his face , reading the Gospels before the fire on win- ter evenings and getting therefrom the ethical ideas which went into the Declaration of Inde- pendence . A later American picture ...
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... picture : " It was toward the close of his active life . The lamplight and the firelight fell upon the bent figure of a scholar in his chair . He held a book . The pleasant room was walled with books . The portrait by Vero- nese of a ...
... picture : " It was toward the close of his active life . The lamplight and the firelight fell upon the bent figure of a scholar in his chair . He held a book . The pleasant room was walled with books . The portrait by Vero- nese of a ...
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Página 183 - Still thou turnedst, and still Beckonedst the trembler, and still Gavest the weary thy hand. If, in the paths of the world, Stones might have wounded thy feet, Toil or dejection have tried Thy spirit, of that we saw Nothing - to us thou wast still Cheerful, and helpful, and firm! Therefore to thee it was given Many to save with thyself; And, at the end of thy day, O faithful shepherd! to come, Bringing thy sheep in thy hand.
Página 184 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God; All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
Página 326 - And if my standard-bearer fall, as fall full well he may, For never saw I promise yet of such a bloody fray, Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre.
Página 13 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Página 213 - IF Jesus Christ is a man, — And only a man, — I say That of all mankind I cleave to him, And to him will I cleave alway. If Jesus Christ is a God, — And the only God, — I swear I will follow Him through heaven and hell, The earth, the sea, and the air...
Página 183 - for I of late have been Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, the living bread.
Página 263 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Página 175 - In other words, that it made the soul like a field or garden of God, with all manner of pleasant flowers: all pleasant, delightful, and undisturbed; enjoying a sweet calm, and the gently vivifying beams of the sun. The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its...
Página 86 - I say, the acknowledgment of God in Christ Accepted by thy reason, solves for thee All questions in the earth and out of it, And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
Página 255 - I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a chef-d'oeuvre for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven...