 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 490 Seiten
...of music there must be between Nature and a poet! " Kenelm was startled. This "an innocent"!—this a girl who had no mind to be formed ! In that presence...native language, learned unconsciously from the lips of tho great mother. To them the butterfly's wing may well buoy into heaven a fairy's soul! " When he... | |
 | 1876 - 442 Seiten
...This "an innocent!" — this a girl who had no mind to be formed! In that presence he could not bo cynical; could not speak of Nature as a mechanism,...foreign tongue, acquired imperfectly with care and pain, hut rather a native language learned unconsciously from the lips of the great mother. To them the butterfly's... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1896 - 458 Seiten
...Do you impale them on pins stuck into a glass case ? " " Impale them ! How can you talk so cruelly 1 You deserve to be pinched by the fairies." " I am...imperfectly with care and pain, but rather a native VOL. i. — 27 language, learned unconsciously from the lips of the great mother. To them the butterfly's... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1897 - 466 Seiten
...represented them to be." " No, real souls, — the souls of infants that die in their cradles unbaptized ; and if they are taken care of, and not eaten by birds,...imperfectly with care and pain, but rather a native TOL. I. — 27 language, learned unconsciously from the lips of the great mother. To them the butterfly's... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 Seiten
...proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle, and so they go on.209 — Johnson. The Creator has gifted the whole universe with language,...learned unconsciously from the lips of the great mother. — Bulwer. 153As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 Seiten
...bombastic, a character for national «implicit)1 and truthfulness cannot long be maintained.— AI ford. iest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set Upe of the great mother.— Busier. One great ase of words is to hide our thoughts.— Voltaire. Charles... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 Seiten
...uniтегее with language, but few aro the hearts that can interpret it. Happy those to whom it ie no foreign tongue, acquired imperfectly with care...unconsciously from the lips of the great mother,— Bulu-er. One great ase of words is to bide onr thoughts.— Voltaire. Charles V. used to aay that "the... | |
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an innocent " ! — this a girl who had no mind to be formed! In that presence he could not be cynical ; could not speak of Nature as a mechanism, a lying humbug, as he had done to the man poet. He replied gravely, — " The Creator has gifted the whole... 
