Under seal of confession, by Averil Beaumont, Band 21874 |
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Seite 194 - So, on I went. I think I never saw Such starved ignoble nature; nothing throve: For flowers as well expect a cedar grove! But cockle, spurge, according to their law Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, You'd think; a burr had been a treasure-trove. XI. No! penury, inertness and grimace, In some strange sort, were the land's portion. "See "Or shut your eyes...
Seite 107 - ... natural selection ;" and when the ocean will be the only domain in which that power can be exerted, which for countless cycles of ages ruled supreme over all the earth.
Seite 194 - So that you just might say, as then I said, 'Here in old time the hand of man hath been.' I looked upon the hill both far and near, More doleful place did never eye survey; It seemed as if the spring-time came not here, And Nature here were willing to decay. I stood in various thoughts and fancies lost, When one, who was in shepherd's garb attired, Came up the hollow: - him did I accost, And what this place might be I then inquired.
Seite 107 - To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set ; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade ; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy ; they have always had the power of doing these, they never will have power to do more.
Seite 103 - With vulgar men about me, trivial forms Of houses, pavement, streets, of men and things,— Mean shapes on every side : but, at the instant, When to myself it fairly might be said, The threshold now is overpast, (how strange That aught external to the living mind Should have such mighty sway! yet so it was), A weight of ages...
Seite 73 - Willst du genau erfahren was sich ziemt, So frage nur bei edlen Frauen an.
Seite 225 - Why, go to then ! She that, so young, could give out such a seeming, To seal her father's eyes up, close as oak, — He thought 'twas witchcraft : — but I am much to blame ; I humbly do beseech you of your pardon, For too much loving you.
Seite 225 - Thou hast led me, like an heathen sacrifice, With music and with fatal yokes of flowers,; To my eternal ruin.
Seite 194 - Now, here is neither grass nor pleasant shade; The sun on drearier hollow never shone; So will it be, as I have often said, Till trees, and stones, and fountain, all are gone.
Seite 150 - Alicia, or Alice, is from the Latin, and has the meaning of noble. It is one of the sweetest of our female names : " Oh that I were beside her now, Oh ! will she answer if I call ? Oh ! would she give me...