The young Muscovite: a tale1874 |
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Sida 207 - So slow th' unprofitable moments roll, That lock up all the functions of my soul; That keep me from myself; and still delay Life's instant business to a future day: That task, which as we follow, or despise, The eldest is a fool, the youngest wise; Which done, the poorest can no wants endure; And which not done, the richest must be poor.
Sida 99 - Possessions vanish, and opinions change, And passions hold a fluctuating seat : But, by the storms of circumstance unshaken, And subject neither to eclipse nor wane, Duty exists ; immutably survive, For our support, the measures and the forms, Which an abstract intelligence supplies ; Whose kingdom is, where time and space are not.
Sida 14 - He that hath nature in him must be grateful : 'Tis the Creator's primary great law, That links the chain of being to each other. Joining the greater to the lesser nature, Trying the weak and strong, the poor and powerful, Subduing men to brutes, and even brutes to men.
Sida 82 - twixt God and man. There is more wisdom in a whisper'd prayer, Than in the ancient lore of all the schools: The soul upon its knees holds God by the hand. Worship is wisdom as it is in heaven! " I do believe! help Thou my unbelief!
Sida 207 - Long as to him, who works for debt, the day ; Long as the night to her, whose love's away ; Long as the year's dull circle seems to run, When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one ; So slow th...
Sida 35 - How short is human life ! the very breath, Which frames my words, accelerates my death. Of this short life how large a portion's fled! To what is gone I am already dead; As dead to all my years and minutes past, As I, to what remains, shall be at...
Sida 219 - Ii aught so fair, In all the dewy landscape of the spring, In the bright eye of Hesper or the morn, In nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair As virtuous friendship ? as the candid blush Of him who strives with fortune to be just ? The graceful tear that streams for other's woe...
Sida 204 - ... born in 1265, and bear in mind the legendary poets and the ' Niebelungen ;' but singularly weak, we think, when he tries to make out that this was also the age of social progress or legislation, and that the successors of St. Peter, who, like Innocent III., aspired to universal empire, were simply doing their duty in that state of life to which God had called them...