...monstrous might be deemed The failure, if the Almighty, to this point Liberal and undistinguishing, should hide The excellence of moral qualities From...duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities, that sooth, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man — like flowers. The generous inclination,...

...monstrous might be deemed The failure, if the Almighty, to this point Liberal and undistinguishing, should hide The excellence of moral qualities From...the rest! Believe it not: The primal duties shine aloft—like stars; The charities, that sooth, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man—like...

...passive thing employed As a brute mean, without acknowledgment Of common right or interest in the end. The primal duties shine aloft, like stars ; The charities...bless, Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. Say, what is honor? Tis tho finest sense Of justice which the human mind can frame, Intent each lurking...

...shall not, we hope, be suspected of the aristocratic bias of those minds which, if they could, would hide " The excellence of moral qualities From common...abstruse, and dark, Hard to be won, and only by a few." It is the delight of every ingenuous mind to spurn so degrading a prejudice as this; to acknowledge...

...with the best truths of life. The best truths are the simplest — never difficult, abstruse and dark. The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The...Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers. Critics there are who peer into holes of the ground, or search under a microscope for Shakespeare's...

...monstrous, might be deemed The failure, if the Almighty, to this point Liberal and undistinguishing, should hide The excellence of moral qualities From...And virtue, difficult, abstruse, and dark ; Hard to bo won, and only by a few ; Strange,. should He deal herein with nice respects, And frustrate all the...

...Gennesaret. THE PURITAN. No. 12. Believe it not: The primal duties shine aloft, like stars ; The characters that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers ; The generous inclination, the just rule, Kind wishes and good actions and pure thoughts — No mystery...

...shall not, we hope, be suspected of the aristocratic bias of those minds which, if they could, would hide " The excellence of moral qualities From common...understanding ; leaving truth And virtue, difficult, ahstruse, and dark, Hard to be won, and only by a few." It is the delight of every ingenuous mind to...

...probabilities; and lost at last in the haze of possibility, bright with the meridian sun of faith. To him " The primal duties shine aloft, like stars : The charities that soothe and heal and bless Lie scattered at the feet of man, like flowers." But of all this he can, for some time, express nothing....

...monstrous might be deemed The failure, if the Almighty, to this point Liberal and undistinguishing, should hide The excellence of moral qualities From...Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers. The generous inclination, the just rule, Kind wishes, and good actions, and pure thoughts — No mystery...