Below the Salt: A Novel, Volume 2Chapman & Hall, 1876 |
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Page 37 - And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT.
Page 59 - They brought with them the church, the school-house and the printing press; they believed that with a great teacher education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism enslave. At home, a friend; abroad, an introduction; in solitude a solace, and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
Page 32 - Thy dawn of little joys, to sit and see Almost thy very growth, to view thee catch Knowledge of objects, — wonders yet to thee ! To hold thee lightly on a gentle knee, And print on thy soft cheek a parent's kiss, — This, it should seem, was not reserved for me ; Yet this was in my nature : as it is, I know not what is there, yet something like to this.
Page 195 - What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show?
Page 263 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 133 - Allons enfants de la Patrie Le jour de gloire est arrivé ! Contre nous de la tyrannie L'étendard sanglant est levé...
Page 161 - We may say it is better to have tried and failed, than never to have tried at all, and in saying that, we still have at the bottom of it the real idea of success.
Page 83 - When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good, or evil. And it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war ; wherein a man can err but once. If thy estate be good, match near home, and at leisure ; if weak, far off, and quickly.
Page 220 - WEEP NOT FOR ME. WHEN the spark of life is waning, Weep not for me ; When the languid eye is straining, Weep not for me. When the feeble pulse is ceasing. Start not at its swift decreasing, 'Tis the fettered soul's releasing ; Weep not for me.
Page 116 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue...