Half Tints: Table D'hôte and Drawing-roomAppleton, 1867 - 232 pàgines |
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Pàgina 35
... virtues , so low as just to touch the line where the vices begin , the meaner faculties . are found acutest . The mind's eye grows con- ical , as a rat's . Gross appetite and passion are known and read of all men ; the brutes that ...
... virtues , so low as just to touch the line where the vices begin , the meaner faculties . are found acutest . The mind's eye grows con- ical , as a rat's . Gross appetite and passion are known and read of all men ; the brutes that ...
Pàgina 85
... no employment for their better virtues . The polished surfaces dazzle the eye but do not warm the heart . If they do not weary they fascinate , and fascination never brought a tear . Its expression is the glitter of an DRAWING - ROOM . 85.
... no employment for their better virtues . The polished surfaces dazzle the eye but do not warm the heart . If they do not weary they fascinate , and fascination never brought a tear . Its expression is the glitter of an DRAWING - ROOM . 85.
Pàgina 96
... . Rich and prosperous , and by virtue of cir- cumstances controlling those about them , they very naturally feel uneasy that they are not acknowledged omnipotent . That feeling as naturally leads them to 96 HALF TINTS .
... . Rich and prosperous , and by virtue of cir- cumstances controlling those about them , they very naturally feel uneasy that they are not acknowledged omnipotent . That feeling as naturally leads them to 96 HALF TINTS .
Pàgina 115
... virtue , he is the incar- nation of fraud , and he commands the admi- ration , if not the respect , of those he has de- frauded . The man who just now touched his hat to him was nearly ruined by him , I know . The scene revives events ...
... virtue , he is the incar- nation of fraud , and he commands the admi- ration , if not the respect , of those he has de- frauded . The man who just now touched his hat to him was nearly ruined by him , I know . The scene revives events ...
Pàgina 136
... , and mother , and guardian of a home . He knows that the truth , and fidelity , and virtue , are not only good in themselves , but that they are neces- sary to save society from wreck . His anxieties do 136 HALF TINTS .
... , and mother , and guardian of a home . He knows that the truth , and fidelity , and virtue , are not only good in themselves , but that they are neces- sary to save society from wreck . His anxieties do 136 HALF TINTS .
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 189 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Pàgina 190 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt, for all.
Pàgina 190 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Pàgina 133 - He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest, And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way his wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide ; But chiefly in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Pàgina 190 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Pàgina 210 - ... and casual impulses. It is a poor and disgraceful thing not to be able to reply, with some degree of certainty, to the simple questions, What will you be ? What will you do ? A little acquaintance with mankind will supply numberless illustrations of the importance of this qualification.
Pàgina 34 - Alas ! one ought really to write against no one in this world. We are all of us sick and suffering enough in this great Lazaretto, and many a piece of polemical reading involuntarily reminds me of a revolting quarrel in a little hospital at Cracow, where I was an accidental spectator, and where it was terrible to hear the sick mocking and reviling each other's infirmities, how emaciated consumptives ridiculed those who were bloated with dropsy, how one laughed at the cancer in the nose of another,...
Pàgina 34 - ... to hear the sick mocking and reviling each other's infirmities, how emaciated consumptives ridiculed those who were bloated with dropsy, how one laughed at the cancer in the nose of another, and he again jeered the locked-jaw and distorted eyes of his neighbors, until finally those who were mad with fever sprang naked from bed, and tore the coverings and sheets from the maimed bodies around, and there was nothing to be seen but revolting misery and mutilation.
Pàgina 160 - Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Pàgina 90 - If he was still at every hour, when it came, fated to feel the attractions of the fine arts but the second claim, they might be sure of their revenge; for no other man will ever visit Rome under such a despotic consciousness of duty as to refuse himself time for surveying the magnificence of its ruins.