The Art of Optimism as Taught by Robert BrowningT. Y. Crowell & Company, 1900 - 35 páginas |
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... live in is a world of mingled good and evil . Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we take it . To look at the world in such a way as to emphasize the evil is the art of pessimism . To look at it in such a way as to ...
... live in is a world of mingled good and evil . Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we take it . To look at the world in such a way as to emphasize the evil is the art of pessimism . To look at it in such a way as to ...
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... live for . Thousands of peo- ple would be supremely happy if they were in precisely your circumstances . Life is like the ocean . It drowns one man , because he yields to it passively and blindly . It buoys up the other because he ...
... live for . Thousands of peo- ple would be supremely happy if they were in precisely your circumstances . Life is like the ocean . It drowns one man , because he yields to it passively and blindly . It buoys up the other because he ...
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... live in the passive voice , waiting for good to come to you ready - made , and you will be a pessimist , miserable to the end of your days . Live in the active voice , intent on the progress you can make and the work you can accomplish ...
... live in the passive voice , waiting for good to come to you ready - made , and you will be a pessimist , miserable to the end of your days . Live in the active voice , intent on the progress you can make and the work you can accomplish ...
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... live , Where , in the sun's hot eye , With heads bent o'er their toil , they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning task work give , Dreaming of nought beyond their prison wall . And as , year after year , Fresh products of their ...
... live , Where , in the sun's hot eye , With heads bent o'er their toil , they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning task work give , Dreaming of nought beyond their prison wall . And as , year after year , Fresh products of their ...
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... Live in the passive voice ; intent on what you can get , rather than on what you can do : in the subjunctive mood ; meditating on what might be , rather than what actually is in the past or future tense ; either harping on what has been ...
... Live in the passive voice ; intent on what you can get , rather than on what you can do : in the subjunctive mood ; meditating on what might be , rather than what actually is in the past or future tense ; either harping on what has been ...
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Términos y frases comunes
active voice antelope art of optimism art of pessimism blindness boat all hole breast Browning's Epilogue conquering power dark grave death dowry draught of dew dreamed drunk my last DUE SEP earth fact fell one day fight finite folded hands forevermore friends give God's happy hate help to remedy human experi husband jackals Jesus and Paul last dew last sweet draught live lovers material of pessimism mill-stream it fell miserable never once OPTIMISM AS TAUGHT optimists passive voice peasant-poet permanent satisfaction pessimism and optimism pessimist place and perform poem poet Pompilia ready-made roar ROBERT BROWNING robust optimism rules for pessimism satisfied serene shoeblack shroud side simply soldier asked soldier spake sorrow soul soul's strength spindle of hazelwood spring sure TAUGHT BY ROBERT three parts pain tion triumph truth unfitness unsatisfied desire victory wait water has brought worst wrong Yesterday's flowers
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Página 11 - DOVER BEACH THE sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits - on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Página 15 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Página 12 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Página 35 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 12 - The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled, But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Página 22 - For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear,— believe the aged friend, — Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love, How love might be, hath been indeed, and is...
Página 5 - Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness ; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Página 30 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity confirms the conception of an hour.
Página 28 - My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched ; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.
Página 33 - Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.