The Harvard Monthly, Bände 21-22

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Students of Harvard College, 1896
 

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Seite 46 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Seite 136 - Say not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field.
Seite 198 - What though I am not wealthy in the dower Of spanning wisdom; though I do not know The shiftings of the mighty winds that blow Hither and thither all the changing thoughts Of man...
Seite 133 - thus the word,' And ' thus I saw,' and ' that I heard,'— But from the lips that half essayed The imperfect utterance fell unmade. 0 thou, in that mysterious shrine Enthroned, as I must say, divine ! 1 will not frame one thought of what Thou mayest either be or not. I will not prate of ' thus ' and
Seite 137 - Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light ; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is light.
Seite 197 - ... brings out many a vein and many a tint, which escape the eye of common observation, thus raising to the rank of gems, what had been often kicked away by the hurrying foot of the traveller on the dusty high road of custom.
Seite 45 - Her features had the soft irregularities which run to rarities of beauty, as the ripple rocks the light; mouth, eyes, brows, nostrils, and bloomy cheeks played into one another liquidly; thought flew, tongue followed, and the flash of meaning quivered over them like night-lightning. Or oftener, to speak truth, tongue flew, thought followed: her age was but newly seventeen, and she was French.
Seite 199 - And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind : I would deceive her And so leave her, But ah ! she is so constant and so kind.
Seite 32 - Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in, the beauty of a thousand stars...
Seite 129 - I verily believe my whole being is soaked through with the wishing and hoping and striving to do the school good, or rather to keep it up and hinder it from falling in this, I do think, very critical time, so that my cares and affections and conversations, thoughts, words, and deeds look to that involuntarily, I am afraid you will be inclined to think this ''cant...

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