The Head of the Family: A Novel, Band 2Chapman and Hall, 1852 |
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Seite 99 - Many a poet has sung laments over departed youth ; did any ever sing, or chant — for it would be like a psalm — the peace, the joy, the comfort of growing old ; of knowing passions dead, temptations conquered, experience won, individual interests become universal, and vain fantastic hopes merged into simple strong - builded faith, — faith which makes of death its foundation stone, and has for its summit Eternity? The "Hymn to Old Age" would be one not unworthy of a great poet.
Seite 315 - STRANGELY do some people talk of "getting over" a great sorrow — overleaping it, passing it by, thrusting it into oblivion. Not so. No one ever does that — at least no nature which can be touched by the feeling of grief at all. The only way is to pass through the ocean of affliction solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very waves of misery will divide, and become to us a wall on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows and...