Memoir of Dr. Samuel Gridley HoweA. J. Wright, 1876 - 127 Seiten |
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Seite 116 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Seite 92 - He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Seite 116 - Who, whether praise of him must walk the earth For ever, and to noble deeds give birth, Or he must fall, to sleep without his fame, And leave a dead unprofitable name Finds comfort in himself and in his cause ; And, while the mortal mist is gathering, draws His breath in confidence of Heaven's applause : This is the happy warrior ; this is he That every man in arms should wish to be.
Seite 116 - It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his childish thought : Whose high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright...
Seite 90 - No trustier service claimed the wreath For Sparta's bravest son ; No truer soldier sleeps beneath The mound of Marathon; Yet not for him the warrior's grave In front of angry foes; To lift, to shield, to help, to save, The holier task he chose. He touched the eyelids of the blind, And lo I the veil withdrawn, As o'er the midnight of the mind He led the light of dawn.
Seite 101 - Lives of great men all remind us We may make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, may take heart again.
Seite 110 - There she was, before me ; built up, as it were, in a marble cell, impervious to any ray of light or particle of sound; with her poor white hand peeping through a chink in the wall, beckoning to some good man for help, that an immortal soul might be awakened.
Seite 100 - Of friends in the true sense of the word to whom he gave his full trust and confidence, he had, I think, but few. " But those he had, and their adoption tried, He grappled to his soul with hoops of steel.
Seite 112 - ... between the two articles, and the complex positions of the fingers. She had thus learned two arbitrary signs, or the names of the two different things. She seemed conscious of having understood and done what I wanted, for she smiled, while I exclaimed, inwardly and triumphantly, "tuyrjxa / tuorjxcc / " I now felt that the first step had been taken successfully, and that this was the only really difficult one...
Seite 111 - If it were possible for a Human being to come into the world with a Brain perfectly prepared to be the instrument of Psychical operations, but with all the inlets to Sense-impressions closed, we have every reason to believe that the Mind would remain dormant, like a seed buried deep in the earth.