 | Jacob Thompson (jun.) - 1879 - 388 Seiten
...adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head : And this our life, exempt from public haunts, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything." — SHAKESPEARE. A BEAUTIFUL summer morning... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 220 Seiten
...knowingly," softened by time and distance. "They hear the tumult, and are still." The very air of the place seems to breathe a spirit of philosophical poetry...equally free from pedantry or petulance : " And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1880 - 284 Seiten
...adversity, That like a toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in its head ; And this our life exempt from public haunts, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brook?, Sermons in stones and good in everything. As You Like It. MIRTH. 'When joy arises from... | |
 | Henry Barnard (of San Francisco) - 1880 - 344 Seiten
...adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in its head; And this our life, exempt from public haunts, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons iu stones, and good iu everything. Sweet adj.; describing "uses." are v. ;... | |
 | 1910 - 882 Seiten
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 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 Seiten
...poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. AND this our life, exempt from public haunts, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. WHAT stronger breastplate than a heart untainted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1884 - 404 Seiten
...knowingly," softened by time and distance. " They hear the tumult, and are still." The very air of the place seems to breathe a spirit of philosophical poetry...equally free from pedantry or petulance : "And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 Seiten
...adversity, Which, like a toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;— And this, our life, exempt from public haunts, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.—Act II., Sc. 1. All the world's a stage,... | |
 | S. S. Hamill - 1886 - 390 Seiten
...adversity, That like a toad, ugly und venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in its head ; And this our life exempt from public haunts, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. — As You Like It. MIRTH. When joy arises... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1887 - 276 Seiten
...Adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in its head ; And this our life, [exempt from public haunts, | Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. CLOSE OF A GUILTY CAREER. — Shakespeare.... | |
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The very air of the place seems to breathe a spirit of philosophical poetry; to stir the thoughts, to touch the heart with pity, as the drowsy forest rustles to the sighing gale. Never was there such beautiful moralizing, equally free from pedantry or... 
