The Pleasures of Life, CompleteAltemus, 1895 - 332 páginas |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
advantage Analects of Confucius Apostolic Fathers Aristotle asked Bacon beautiful better Bharata Ramayana blessings blue bright CHAPTER charm cheerful Cicero clouds color dark death delightful Demosthenes doubt earth Emerson enjoy enjoyment Epictetus Euripides evil feel flowers friends give glorious glory gold greatest Greek hand happiness heart heaven History hope hour human important infinite interest Jeremy Taylor John Herschel King labor light live look Macaulay Marcus Aurelius mind Molière Moreover Nathaniel Hawthorne Nature ness never Nibelungenlied night ourselves pain peace perhaps Plato pleasure Plutarch Poetry poets possess proverb religion rest rich Ruskin seems Seneca Shakespeare Socrates song sorrow soul spirit stars suffer sure sweet tells things Thomas à Kempis thou thought tion troubles true truth Vicar of Wakefield wise wish wonder words
Passagens conhecidas
Página 187 - GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Página 69 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 186 - But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance, after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Página 320 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Página 31 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 266 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Página 75 - While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.
Página 244 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Página 190 - Oh ! when a Mother meets on high The Babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then, for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight...
Página 216 - Like a poet hidden, In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...