The Nineteenth Century, Band 15

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Henry S. King & Company, 1884
 

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Seite 345 - And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Seite 836 - He makes the figs our mouths to meet And throws the melons at our feet ; But apples plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice.
Seite 788 - My apprehensions come in crowds ; I dread the rustling of the grass ; The very shadows of the clouds Have power to shake me as they pass ; I question things, and do not find One that will answer to my mind ; And all the world appears unkind.
Seite 341 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands ; neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things...
Seite 774 - Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things And battles long ago; Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of today Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Seite 415 - But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
Seite 669 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Seite 43 - The powers of sculpture, but the style as much; Each province of her art her equal care. With nice incision of her guided steel, She ploughs a brazen field, and clothes a soil So sterile with what charms soe'er she will, 710 The richest scenery and the loveliest forms.
Seite 588 - And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God, For I who am curious about each am not curious about God, (No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death...
Seite 12 - Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the ONE absolute certainty, that he is ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.

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