The Secret of Long Life |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
65 Cornhill Adjutant Apollo apprehended Asgill beauty birds boys brain CHAPTER Charles Kingsley charm Church classic character connexion COUNTESS VON BOTHMER crown 8vo daughter destiny dine dinner divine dreams England English enjoy faculties Felice Orsini flower French Empire girls Greek grow happiness Holme Lee Homer husband ideas indolent infinite intellectual iodine Kathie Brande KING ladies laze literature live long lobster London longevity look marriage of completion married master Matthew Arnold mean mind modern MORTIMER COLLINS NASSAU WILLIAM SENIOR never noble novels oyster perfect pleasant POEMS poet poetic political port wine post 8vo Pythagoras racter Sauterne Scholar Gipsy Second Edition SECRET OF LONG sermons sleep soul spirit sunset supreme theory things Thomas Archer thought tion Tom Hood trees true verse village West India Regiment whitebait wife Windermere wine write young
Popular passages
Page 32 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 94 - And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day — Ah ! do not we, wanderer ! await it too ? Yes, we await it! — but it still delays, And then we suffer! and amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne; And all his store of sad experience he Lays bare of wretched days...