 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - English poetry - 1850 - 400 pages
...recreative face of nature, and the kindling charities of home : And remember, thou that laborest, — thy leisure is not loss, If it help to expose and...Lightsome at commencement, but darkening to its end in & distant massy portal. It beginneth as a little path, edged with the violet and primrose, A little... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - English poetry - 1850 - 490 pages
...that solid falsehood—the material. LIFE is a strange avenue of various trees and flowers; [portal. Lightsome at commencement, but darkening to its end in a distant massy It beginneth as a little path, edged with the violet and primrose, A little path of lawny grass, and... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - Proverbs - 1851 - 296 pages
...— thy leisure is not loss, If it help to expose and undermine that solid falsehood, the Ma terial. LIFE is a strange avenue of various trees and flowers...commencement, but darkening to its end in a distant 210 PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY. [SERIES li. A little path of lawny grass, and soft to tiny feet : Soon spring... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - Proverbs - 1852 - 438 pages
...thy leisure is not loss, If it help to expose and undermine that solid falsehood, the Material. TLifs is a strange avenue of various trees and flowers ;...feet : Soon, spring thistles in the way, those early griefe of school. And fruit-trees ranged on either hand show holiday delights : Anon, the rose and... | |
 | 1852 - 406 pages
...painter Cole glowingly pictured upon his canvas the protracted ' Voyage' of Life; Tupper declares that " Life is a strange avenue of various trees and flowers,...but darkening to its end in a distant massy portal," and adds a score of lines expanding his idea ; Longfellow alludes to ' the battle-field of Life,' and... | |
 | Caroline Augusta Soule - Short stories - 1855 - 274 pages
...as God had meant she should be, "A talent of trust, a loan to be rendered back with interest." IV. Life is a strange avenue of various trees and flowers...primrose, A little path of lawny grass, and soft to tiuy feet : Soon spring thistles in the way, those early griefs of school ; And vipers hide among the... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - Bookbinding - 1856 - 410 pages
...feeling— dead ; imagination, conscience, All wilfully expunged, till they leave the man mere carcase. See thou livest, whiles thou art : for heart must...darkening to its end in a distant massy portal It begimieth as a little path, edged with the violet and primrose, A little path of lawny grass, and soft... | |
 | John Baillie - Theologians - 1856 - 416 pages
...behind her so precious a fragrance, was ushered into this vale of tears. " Life," it has been said, " Beginneth as a little path edged with the violet and...little path of lawny grass, and soft to tiny feet." To Adelaide Newton, life's early years were eminently smooth and pleasant. Of a good family, and surrounded... | |
 | Chapeltown - 1857 - 226 pages
...Mrs. Clifton so." CHAPTER IX. CABTER SQUARE. " Life is a strange avenue of various trees and flowers ; It beginneth as a little path, edged with the violet...little path of lawny grass, and soft to tiny feet." — TUPPEB. ON the same day which was signalized in the manner just described, Caroline was ushered... | |
 | John Baillie - 1858 - 382 pages
...behind her so precious a fragrance, was ushered into this vale of tears. " Life," it has been said, " Beginneth as a little path edged with the violet and...little path of lawny grass, and soft to tiny feet." To Adelaide Newton, life's early years were eminently smooth and pleasant. Of a good family, and surrounded... | |
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It beginnetb. as a little path, edged with the violet and primrose, A little path of lawny grass and soft to tiny feet : Soon, spring thistles in the way, those early griefs of school, And fruit-trees ranged on either hand show holiday delights : Anon,... 
