When and where: a book of family events, ed. by D. and S. VeitchDouglas Veitch 1882 |
Términos y frases comunes
April April 27 assailing enemy-never pursue August Augustus Cæsar Bacon bear bestow wit better Beware that improvement brave change pretendeth improvement counsel dead dead past December deeds devil doth earth earthly joy enemy evil eyes fame fault February February 12 flying foe further fool friends George Eliot give God's grief happiness hast hath heart hold honest hour improvement draweth January January 18 July July 28 June June 23 keep king may bestow lay not wagers lest thou man's March March 18 March 20 men's mind mouth ne'er neighbour never November o'er October pains passions peace Proctor prosperity Publius Syrus rich Robert Aytoun secret secure the victory.-Bacon September September 11 silence sorrow soul speak sweet charity talk tell thee thine thing thyself tongue true virtue wealth Whately wisdom wise wish words worse worst would'st wrath
Pasajes populares
Página 114 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; \ ' His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Página 24 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Página 51 - Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Página 103 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Página 100 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Página 68 - Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings, And seems to creep, decrepit with his age ; Behold him, when past by ; what then is seen, But his broad pinions, swifter than the winds ? And all mankind, in contradiction strong, Rueful, aghast ! cry out on his career.
Página 170 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Página 51 - JUDGE not ; the workings of his brain And of his heart thou canst not see ; What looks to thy dim eyes a stain, In God's pure light may only be A scar, brought from some well-won field, Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.
Página 64 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom...
Página 14 - Ne let the man ascribe it to his skill, That thorough grace hath gained victory. If any strength we have, it is to ill, But all the good is Gods, both power and eke will.