Editorial EchoesA. C. McClurg, 1902 - 309 páginas |
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Página 59 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Página 135 - Dell' umana natura posto in bando : Che in la mente m' è fitta, ed or m'accora La cara e buona imagine paterna • - Di voi, quando nel mondo ad ora ad ora M...
Página 166 - Homer were reading of my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart; as well as to read it every syllable through, aloud, hard names and all, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once a year : and to that discipline — patient, accurate, and resolute — I owe, not only a knowledge of the book, which I find occasionally serviceable, but much of my general power of taking pains, /' i and the best part of my taste in literature.
Página 230 - London, — has become hateful to me, because of the misery that I know of, and see signs of where I know it not, which no imagination can interpret too bitterly.
Página 30 - L'azur phosphorescent de la mer des Tropiques Enchantait leur sommeil d'un mirage doré; Ou, penchés à l'avant des blanches caravelles, Ils regardaient monter en un ciel ignoré Du fond de l'Océan des étoiles nouvelles.
Página 117 - God himself, in short, may draw vital strength and increase of very being from our fidelity. For my own part, I do not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this.
Página 126 - O little sails, make haste! But thou, vast outbound ship of souls, What harbor town for thee? What shapes, when thy arriving tolls, Shall crowd the banks to see? Shall all the happy shipmates then Stand singing brotherly? Or shall a haggard ruthless few Warp her over and bring her to, While the many broken souls of men 90 Fester down in the slaver's pen, And nothing to say or do?
Página 129 - Here is her witness; this, her perfect son, This delicate and proud New England soul Who leads despised men, with just-unshackled feet, Up the large ways where death and glory meet, To show all peoples that our shame is done, That once more we are clean and spirit-whole.
Página 213 - ... thought, A time to serve and to sin; They gave him light in his ways, And love, and a space for delight, And beauty and length of days, And night, and sleep in the night. His speech is a burning fire; With his lips he travaileth; In his heart is a blind desire, In his eyes foreknowledge of death; He weaves, and is clothed with derision; Sows, and he shall not reap; His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
Página 97 - In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.