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Macmillan, 1879
 

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Seite 86 - Was raised by intense pensiveness, . . . two eyes, Two starry eyes hung in the gloom of thought, And seemed with their serene and azure smiles To beckon him.
Seite xvii - I shall have helped, even in a single case, to "turn the hearts of the parents to the children, and the hearts of the children to the parents, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come...
Seite 174 - You have cast your daughters' bread, And, worn out with liquor and harlots, Your heir at your feet lies dead; "When your youngest, the mealy-mouthed rector, Lets your soul rot asleep to the grave, You will find in your God the protector Of the freeman you fancied your slave.
Seite 82 - she honours them,' — our ships do sail ; our mills do work ; our doctors do cure ; our soldiers do fight. And she does not honour yours ; for your Jesuits have, by their own confession, to lie, to swindle, to get even man to accept theirs for them. So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we...
Seite 292 - He hath put down the mighty from their seat : and hath exalted the humble and meek. He hath filled the hungry with good things : and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Seite 27 - Atho's peak Weltered in burning haze ; all airs were dead ; The cicale slept among the tamarisk's hair; The birds sat dumb and drooping. Far below The lazy sea-weed glistened in the sun ; The lazy sea-fowl dried their steaming wings ; The lazy swell crept whispering up the ledge, And sank again. Great Pan was laid to rest; And Mother Earth watched by him as he slept, And hushed her myriad children for a while.
Seite 172 - The merry brown hares came leaping Over the crest of the hill, Where the clover and corn lay sleeping Under the moonlight still. ^ Leaping late and early, Till under their bite and their tread The swedes, and the wheat, and the barley, Lay cankered, and trampled and dead.
Seite 174 - We quarrelled like brutes, and who wonders? What self-respect could we keep, Worse housed than your hacks and your pointers, Worse fed than your hogs and your sheep? "Our daughters, with base-born babies, Have wandered away in their shame; If your misses had slept, squire, where they did, Your misses might do the same.
Seite 312 - As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating, drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage ; and the flood came and swept them all away." Of course they did not expect it They went on saying, " Where is the promise of his coming ? For all things continue as they were from the beginning.
Seite 4 - What was to be expected ? Just what happened — if woman's beauty had nothing holy in it, why should his fondness for it ? Just what happens every day — that he had to sow his wild oats for himself, and eat the fruit thereof, and the dirt thereof also.

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