Life and I: An Autobiography of HumanityHoughton Mifflin, 1928 - 306 páginas |
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achieve action ambition ardor artist assertion beauty become chapter Charles Darwin charm Christ Christian Church comes comfort complicated curious Darwin delight denial desire despair developed divine doubt ecstasy édition effort elaborate element endeavor escape Eugénie de Guérin everywhere excitement existence experience external fear feel Fénelon Flaubert George Sand give glory Goethe Gospel of John Gospels habit heart heaven human ideal immense indifferent infinite instinct intellectual intense interest Jesus Jonathan Edwards Jules Lemaître La Belle Hélène less lives Madame de Sévigné Madame X matter means ment misery Montaigne mystical nature never one's oneself overcome passion perhaps persistent persons petty pleasure possible practical pure rapture reason saints satisfaction secrets seek seems sense simple social sometimes soul spirit strange struggle subtle supreme things Thomas Moore thought tion to-day unfailing universe varied vast Voltaire women words
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Página 20 - tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. 202 Sir And. A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight. Sir To. A contagious breath. Sir And. Very sweet and contagious, i
Página 170 - But he answered and said unto him that told him, " Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?" And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, "Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister and mother.
Página 168 - And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone [monos], and the woman standing in the midst.
Página 207 - God's excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in everything; in the sun, moon, and stars, in the clouds and blue sky, in the grass, flowers, trees, in the water and all nature; which used greatly to fix my mind.
Página 200 - That world of misery, that lake of burning brimstone, is extended abroad under you. There is the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the wrath of God; there is hell's wide gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to stand upon, nor any thing to take hold of; there is nothing between you and hell but the air; it is only the power and mere pleasure of God that holds you up.
Página 97 - Measure time by what is done and to die in 6 hours could plans be brought to conclusions, the looking upon the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, the Earth and its contents as materials to form greater things, that is to say, ethereal things.
Página 36 - But when the moon their hollows lights, And they are swept by balms of spring, And in their glens, on starry nights, The nightingales divinely sing ; And lovely notes, from shore to shore, Across the sounds and channels pour...
Página 161 - He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Página 227 - Emblems of hope over the grave, In the high altar's depth divine ; The organ carries to our ear Its accents of another sphere. "Fenced early in this cloistral round Of reverie, of shade, of prayer, How should we grow in other ground ? How can we flower in foreign air ? — Pass, banners, pass, and bugles, cease ; And leave our desert to its peace!
Página 272 - For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.