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Page x
And still less must you mind much fingering and laceration ; it may be that your
ears may be made those of a dog ; perhaps you may be cried over and called evil
names and held an abomination . By these things ye not troubled , O booklet ; for
...
And still less must you mind much fingering and laceration ; it may be that your
ears may be made those of a dog ; perhaps you may be cried over and called evil
names and held an abomination . By these things ye not troubled , O booklet ; for
...
Page xiii
Let us banish utterly and for ever from our minds the notion of finality in education
. Let us recognize that all our efforts are but tentative , and that we are yet an
immeasurable distance , not only from absolute perfection , but from that degree
of ...
Let us banish utterly and for ever from our minds the notion of finality in education
. Let us recognize that all our efforts are but tentative , and that we are yet an
immeasurable distance , not only from absolute perfection , but from that degree
of ...
Page xvi
Some personal exertion will endear to him the knowledge he acquires , and will
impress it more deeply on his mind . The habit of independent search , conducted
in however humble a way , is highly valuable . ( ii . ) With regard to the following ...
Some personal exertion will endear to him the knowledge he acquires , and will
impress it more deeply on his mind . The habit of independent search , conducted
in however humble a way , is highly valuable . ( ii . ) With regard to the following ...
Page xviii
While , as has been said above , something more than the memory is to be
thought of , and a mere loading of that faculty is before all things to be deprecated
, the memory is not to be neglected . The memory is to be the servant of the mind ;
it ...
While , as has been said above , something more than the memory is to be
thought of , and a mere loading of that faculty is before all things to be deprecated
, the memory is not to be neglected . The memory is to be the servant of the mind ;
it ...
Page xxi
Their minds have appeared to them tabula rasa of as complete a kind as they
were at the time of birth , according to Locke , or as the palpable unfilled sheet in
front of them . They have no self - projecting power . They cannot cast any
shadows ...
Their minds have appeared to them tabula rasa of as complete a kind as they
were at the time of birth , according to Locke , or as the palpable unfilled sheet in
front of them . They have no self - projecting power . They cannot cast any
shadows ...
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Page 154 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind...
Page 98 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 102 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven, As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm ; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, • Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 134 - O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware.
Page 101 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 155 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Page 76 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; 30 Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short...
Page 77 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 14 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 132 - We listened and looked sideways up ! Fear at my heart, as at a cup, My life-blood seemed to sip ! The stars were dim, and thick the night, The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed white; From the sails the dew did drip — Till clomb above the eastern bar The horned Moon, with one bright star 210 Within the nether tip.
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| Title | Longer English poems, with notes, ed. by J.W. Hales |
| Editor | John Wesley Hales |
| Published | 1872 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 9 Aug 2006 |
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