The Children's Bower; Or, What You Like, Volumen1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1858 |
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... common youth , so that wherever he entered joy seemed to come in with him . He then says slowly and gravely , that this child was never known to have committed a single fault . He says he speaks on the best authority ; he adds , that ...
... common youth , so that wherever he entered joy seemed to come in with him . He then says slowly and gravely , that this child was never known to have committed a single fault . He says he speaks on the best authority ; he adds , that ...
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... common , so familiar in some respects , so similar in all cases and at all times , and yet for each so fugitive , may prove a beautiful and most instructive vision , which it would be well if possible in every * Bryant . instance to ...
... common , so familiar in some respects , so similar in all cases and at all times , and yet for each so fugitive , may prove a beautiful and most instructive vision , which it would be well if possible in every * Bryant . instance to ...
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... common things of life around us , -though what is contrary to all this he would leave for those to say who think they can assert it with safety respecting the settlement of their own ac- counts with Heaven ; still when prostrated by ...
... common things of life around us , -though what is contrary to all this he would leave for those to say who think they can assert it with safety respecting the settlement of their own ac- counts with Heaven ; still when prostrated by ...
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... common , one may relieve them from the hardly endurable burden of suppressed grief ? for there are many whose personal afflictions seem to dry up the fountain of tears for whatever may affect themselves ; and it will be like the ...
... common , one may relieve them from the hardly endurable burden of suppressed grief ? for there are many whose personal afflictions seem to dry up the fountain of tears for whatever may affect themselves ; and it will be like the ...
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... common life , which in one sense ought not to be called private , since they are more or less the same in all families , very often more impressive and more instructive , if you think well on them , and look straight at them , than all ...
... common life , which in one sense ought not to be called private , since they are more or less the same in all families , very often more impressive and more instructive , if you think well on them , and look straight at them , than all ...
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Acheul admire affection Augustin beauty Bonifacius brother called charity Charles Lamb charm cher child childhood and youth Children's Bower Christian Church Cicero common congruum Cratylus delight disposition divine dream Duc de Beauvilliers Duc de Saint-Simon earth evil eyes fact faith father feel flowers forgiveness friends grace grave grown-up happy hear heard heart heaven holy human humour innocence kind Lactantius laugh Leigh Hunt lesson little John live look Lord Brougham mamouselle manners mercy mind mirth nature never observe pass passion Père de Neuville perhaps persons philosophers Plato play pleasure poet poor present reason religion remark respect Ruskin says St seems simplicity smile sorrow soul speak spirit Stones of Venice stranger sweet Tacitus teach thee thing thou thought tion truth university of Paris virtue voice wish words young καὶ
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Página 110 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Página 2 - twere with a defeated joy, With one auspicious and one dropping eye, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole...
Página 133 - The season's glorious show, Nor would its brightness shine for me, Nor its wild music flow ; But if, around my place of sleep, The friends I love should come to weep, They might not haste to go. Soft airs, and song, and light, and bloom, Should keep them lingering by my tomb.
Página 127 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Página 6 - There, in that silent room below, The dead lay in his shroud of snow; And in the hush that followed the prayer, Was heard the old clock on the stair, — ' ' Forever — never ! Never — forever! " All are scattered now and fled, Some are married, some are dead; And when I ask, with throbs of pain, " Ah ! when shall they all meet again...
Página 124 - Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near. The fireside for the cricket, The wheat-stack for the mouse, When trembling night-winds whistle And moan all round the house. The frosty ways like iron, The branches plumed with snow, — Alas! in Winter dead and dark, Where can poor Robin go? Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And a crumb of bread for Robin, His little heart to cheer!
Página 120 - Forever — never! Never — forever!" In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality; His great fires up the chimney roared; The stranger feasted at his board; But, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — "Forever — never! Never — forever!
Página 11 - And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound. Thou hast my better years ; Thou hast my earlier friends, the good, the kind, Yielded to thee with tears — The venerable form, the exalted mind. My spirit yearns to bring The lost ones back — yearns with desire intense, And struggles hard to wring Thy bolts apart, and pluck thy captives thence.
Página 140 - When from thy cheerful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning?
Página 95 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round...