Boston DaysSampson Low, Marston & Company, 1902 - 485 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Agassiz Alcott artistic beautiful Benjamin Peirce Bishop Brooks born Boston brilliant called character Charles Eliot Norton charm Colonel Higginson Concord culture Damrosch Dante daughter DEAR death divine early Edward Everett Edward Everett Hale Elizabeth Peabody Emerson England exquisite faith fame Fiske force genius George William Curtis gift Hale Harvard Hawthorne heart Holmes hour Howells human ideal impression insight inspiration intellectual interest James Freeman Clarke Julia Ward lectures letters literary literature lived Livermore Longfellow Lowell Institute Lucy Stone Margaret Fuller mind Miss Peabody mystic nature never noble Peirce perhaps Phillips Brooks philosophy poem poet poetic present Prof Professor remarkable Sanborn says social society soul spiritual story Street Sumner sweet sympathetic sympathy temperament thee Theodore Parker thought Ticknor tion truth Wendell Phillips Whipple Whittier William woman women writes wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 184 - For manners are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature, and of noble mind.
Seite 146 - Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold ; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking: 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking, No price is set on the lavish summer ; June may be had by the poorest comer.
Seite 253 - None knew him but to love him, None named him but to praise.
Seite 190 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
Seite 160 - I was as one who wanders in a trance, Unconscious of his road. The faces of familiar friends seemed strange ; Their voices I could hear, And yet the words they uttered seemed to change Their meaning to my ear.
Seite 189 - ... reaching to its aims; Built of furtherance and pursuing, Not of spent deeds, but of doing. Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters with tears of ancient sorrow Apples of Eden ripe tomorrow. House and tenant go to ground, Lost in God, in Godhead found.
Seite 128 - T is a brave master; Let it have scope: Follow it utterly, Hope beyond hope: High and more high It dives into noon, With wing unspent, Untold intent; But it is a god, Knows its own path And the outlets of the sky. It was never for the mean; It requireth courage stout. Souls above doubt...
Seite 105 - His soul was made for the noblest society ; he had in a short life exhausted the capabilities of this world ; wherever there is knowledge, wherever there is virtue, wherever there is beauty, he will find a home.
Seite 191 - The hyacinthine boy, for whom Morn well might break and April bloom, — The gracious boy, who did adorn The world whereinto he was born, And by his countenance repay The favor of the loving Day...
Seite 103 - Leave all thy pedant lore apart ; God hid the whole world in thy heart.