The Lover's Seat: Kathemérina; Or, Common Things in Relation to Beauty, Virtue, and TruthLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 |
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... writer has already told us , there is something in that too , since the evening like the dawn has peculiar attractions ; and not for men alone , but it would almost seem for some plants , like the mignonette , which is sweeter and more ...
... writer has already told us , there is something in that too , since the evening like the dawn has peculiar attractions ; and not for men alone , but it would almost seem for some plants , like the mignonette , which is sweeter and more ...
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... writer calls attention in his work on London Labour and London Poor , where he says , " I feel tho- roughly convinced of the ineffectiveness of the present educa- tional resources for the poor . The intellect , the conscience , the ...
... writer calls attention in his work on London Labour and London Poor , where he says , " I feel tho- roughly convinced of the ineffectiveness of the present educa- tional resources for the poor . The intellect , the conscience , the ...
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... writers , that the common things of nature as they lie open before us all in this life , " made in love and made to be loved , " are replete with food for the nourishment of this noble sentiment , which is con- cerned with beauty ; and ...
... writers , that the common things of nature as they lie open before us all in this life , " made in love and made to be loved , " are replete with food for the nourishment of this noble sentiment , which is con- cerned with beauty ; and ...
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... writer , " in the new stu- dent of art ! The outlines of objects before unheeded fill him with perceptions of symmetry , proportion , and harmony . He not only observes these forms , but he discerns their colours ; both form and colour ...
... writer , " in the new stu- dent of art ! The outlines of objects before unheeded fill him with perceptions of symmetry , proportion , and harmony . He not only observes these forms , but he discerns their colours ; both form and colour ...
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... writer , " for it can and must be affirmed of divine art also . Were this per- fect , there would be an end to all human progress whatever . In human art we are associated with the Creator , and He has stopped short at a certain stage ...
... writer , " for it can and must be affirmed of divine art also . Were this per- fect , there would be an end to all human progress whatever . In human art we are associated with the Creator , and He has stopped short at a certain stage ...
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admire affections appanage Aristotle Bartholomew Fair beauty Ben Jonson bower character Charles Lamb charm Cicero classes colour common pleasures common things common virtues costermonger delight divine dress earth excellence extraordinary eyes fancy fashion feel Festus flowers folly friends grace happy hath Hazlitt hear heard heart heaven honour human humour kind laugh light live London look Love's Pilgrimage Lover's Seat lovers mind mirth moral nature never object observe old play passion penny gaffs perhaps persons philosopher Pindar Plato poet poetry poor racter relation to virtue religion remark respect Richter rience scene seek seems sense sentiment sing Sir Launfal Sir Walter Scott smile society song soul speak spirit street sweet taste thee things in relation thou thought transcendental transcendentalists truth turn uncommon walk whole wise woman women words writer young youth
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Página 7 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Página 242 - HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh ! sweetest melancholy.
Página 39 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Página 30 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why then comes in the sweet o' the year ; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With...
Página 269 - I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the...
Página 311 - THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a
Página 262 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When...
Página 261 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary...
Página 237 - Here be woods as green As any, air likewise as fresh and sweet As when smooth Zephyrus plays on the fleet Face of the curled streams, with flow'rs as many As the young spring gives, and as choice as any; Here be all new delights, cool streams and wells; Arbours o'ergrown with woodbines, caves and dells; Choose where thou wilt...
Página 340 - A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse ; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests ; he gives an independent, genuine verdict.