The Recreations of a Country Parson. Second SeriesTicknor and Fields, 1861 - 442 Seiten |
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... tion to attempt the unworthy arts of the clap - trap mob- orator , or to preach mainly to display your own talents and eloquence ; you have striven to exclude all personal ambition ; and , forgetting yourself or what people may think of ...
... tion to attempt the unworthy arts of the clap - trap mob- orator , or to preach mainly to display your own talents and eloquence ; you have striven to exclude all personal ambition ; and , forgetting yourself or what people may think of ...
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... tion . Nowhere is more careful preparation needed ; but of course it must be preparation of the right sort . Let it be received as an axiom , that the very first aim of the preacher should be to interest . He must interest , before he ...
... tion . Nowhere is more careful preparation needed ; but of course it must be preparation of the right sort . Let it be received as an axiom , that the very first aim of the preacher should be to interest . He must interest , before he ...
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... tion of fear . Not that you are deficient in spirit , my dumb friend ; you will do your twelve miles an hour with any steed within some miles of you ; but a long course of kindness has gentled you as well as Mr. Rarey could have done ...
... tion of fear . Not that you are deficient in spirit , my dumb friend ; you will do your twelve miles an hour with any steed within some miles of you ; but a long course of kindness has gentled you as well as Mr. Rarey could have done ...
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... tion , fulfilled their Creator's purposes as well as you . He gave you strength and swiftness , and you use these to many a valuable end : not many of the superior race will venture to say that they turn the powers God gave them to ...
... tion , fulfilled their Creator's purposes as well as you . He gave you strength and swiftness , and you use these to many a valuable end : not many of the superior race will venture to say that they turn the powers God gave them to ...
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... tion . They worry and annoy . It is extremely interest- ing , in reading the published diaries of several great and good men , to find them recording on how many days they were put out of sorts , vexed and irritated , and rendered unfit ...
... tion . They worry and annoy . It is extremely interest- ing , in reading the published diaries of several great and good men , to find them recording on how many days they were put out of sorts , vexed and irritated , and rendered unfit ...
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Seite 174 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Seite 110 - tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music ! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how blithe the throstle sings ! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher.
Seite 128 - There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies, he would rove ; Now drooping, woful, wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love.
Seite 226 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more...
Seite 412 - Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. "And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. "My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Seite 187 - THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.
Seite 295 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Seite 329 - O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest — Ps.
Seite 122 - And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last.
Seite 305 - From the lone shieling of the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas — Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides : Fair these broad meads, &c.