Companions of My SolitudeSmith, Elder, 1869 - 268 Seiten |
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Seite 108 - I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself and knows itself divine; All harmony of instrument or verse, All prophecy, all medicine are mine, All light of art or nature; — to my song, Victory and praise in their own right belong.
Seite 91 - Be taught, O faithful Consort, to control Rebellious passion ; for the Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul ; A fervent, not ungovernable, love.
Seite 102 - Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Seite 201 - But this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, and the like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.
Seite 82 - When I am assailed with heavy tribulations, I rush out among my pigs, rather than remain alone by myself. The human heart is like a millstone in a mill ; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour ; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then it is itself it grinds and wears away.
Seite 73 - It was necessary to stay some time (for we travelled vetturino fashion) at the little post-house, and I walked on, promising to be in the way whenever the vehicle should overtake me. The road led through a wood, chiefly of pines, varied, however, occasionally by other trees. Into this wood I strayed. There was that almost indescribably soothing noise (the Romans would have used the word ' susurrus,') the aggregate of many gentle movements of gentle creatures. The birds hopped but a few paces...
Seite 75 - Nature's way of healing up the gaps in the forest. For her healing is a new beauty. ' It was very warm, without which nothing is beautiful to me ; and I fell into the pleasantest train of thought. The easiness of that present moment seemed to show the possibility of all care being driven away from the world some day. For thus peace brings a sensation of power with it. I shall not say what I thought of, for it is not good always to be communicative ; but altogether that hour in the pine-wood was the...
Seite 52 - Do not be discouraged, therefore, by a present detriment in any course which may lead to something good. Time is so precious here. " Get, if you can, into one or other of the main grooves of human affairs.
Seite 38 - What a large amount would come under the heads of unreasonable fear of others, of miserable quarrels amongst relations upon infinitesimally small subjects, of imaginary slights, of undue cares, of false shames, of absolute misunderstandings, of unnecessary pains to maintain credit or reputation, of vexation that we cannot make others of the same mind with ourselves. What a wonderful thing it would be to see set down in figures, as it were, how ingenuous we are in plaguing one another.
Seite 194 - ... soul : when he thought each noise in the house, hearing noises that he never heard before, must be something they were doing in the room — the room— where lay all that was mortal of some one inexpressibly dear to him ; when he awoke morning after morning to struggle with a grief which seemed as new, as appalling, and as large as on the first day ; which indeed, being part of himself, and thus partaking of his renovated powers, rose equipped with what rest or alacrity sleep had given him ;...