The Pennimans: Or, The Triumph of Genius

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Gardner A. Fuller, 1862 - 296 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 68 - Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Sayfa 140 - And even since, and now, fair Italy ! Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature (') can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste ; More rich than other climes' fertility ; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Sayfa 18 - Nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours. It is a little thing to speak a phrase Of common comfort which by daily use Has almost lost its sense ; yet on the ear Of him who thought to die unmourn'd, 'twill fall Like choicest music...
Sayfa 115 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Sayfa 126 - Can we be said to do unto others as we would that they should do unto us if we wantonly inflict on them even the smallest pain?
Sayfa 18 - Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when Nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
Sayfa 19 - Different in this from the wolf or the fox, who, though taken never so young, are gentle only while cubs, and, as they grow older, give themselves up to their natural appetites of rapine and cruelty. In short, it may be asserted, that the dog is the only animal whose fidelity is unshaken ; the only one who knows his master, and the friends of the family ; the only one who instantly distinguishes a stranger ; the only one who knows his name, and answers to the domestic call ; the only one who seems...
Sayfa 153 - The philosophy of death is the philosophy of change; not of change in the constitution or personality of the individual, but of change in the situation of the human spiritual principle; which, instead of being situated in an earthly body, is placed in a spiritual organization; and, instead of living among the objects and personalities of the planet upon which the individual spirit was born, its situation is so altered as to fit it to live amidst more beauteous forms and in higher societies. Believe...
Sayfa 107 - To loath them more than this : when in the street A fair, young, modest damsel, I did meet, She seem'd to all a dove, when I pass'd by. And I to all a raven: every eye That...

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