Modern Society: Or, The March of Intellect: The Conclusion of Modern AccomplishmentsW. Whyte & Company, 1837 - 470 pages |
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Page 362 - Would you ask for his merits ? alas! he had none; What was good was spontaneous, his faults were his own. Here lies honest Richard whose fate I must sigh at; • Alas! that such frolic should now be so quiet! What spirits were his! what wit and what whim! Now breaking a jest, and now breaking a limb! Now wrangling and grumbling to keep up the ball! Now teasing and vexing, yet laughing at all!
Page 315 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 398 - 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. At church with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Page 1 - Sorrows like showers descend, and as the heart For them prepares, they good or ill impart ; Some on the mind, as on the ocean rain, Fall and disturb, but soon are lost again — Some, as to fertile lands, a boon bestow, And seed, that else had perish'd, live and grow ; Some fall on barren soil, and thence proceed The idle blossom, and the useless weed ; But how her griefs the Widow's heart impress'd, Must from the tenor of her life be guess'd.
Page 113 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 428 - Eleanor's heart was smitten by the contrast, and a crushing sense of misery weighed down her spirit. The rich gifts of fortune appeared now in their native insignificance compared with those of nature ; for friendship, affection, peace, contentment, and cheerfulness seemed all to have been sacrificed in a mere delirium of vanity, while she felt what a mirage of the desert had misled her. " Oh ! that it were with me as in the days that are past !" thought she bitterly ; " but more easily might I gather...
Page 90 - And went with Meekness, Charity, and Love. Where'er a tear was dried, a wounded heart Bound up, a bruised spirit with the dew Of sympathy anointed, or a pang Of honest suffering soothed, or injury Repeated oft, as oft by love forgiven; Where'er an evil passion was subdued, Or Virtue's feeble embers fanned ; where'er A sin was heartily abjured and left; Where'er a pious act was done, or breathed A pious prayer, or wished a pious wish ; There was a high and holy place, a spot Of sacred light, a most...
Page 270 - Oh ! I would walk A weary journey to the farthest verge Of the big world, to kiss that good man's hand, Who, in the blaze of wisdom and of art, Preserves a lowly mind ; and to his God, Feeling the sense of his own littleness, Is as a child in meek simplicity!