The Lost FightDodd, Mead, 1928 - 310 pages |
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Page 33 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized...
Page 74 - Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us: Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they be withered.
Page 138 - Without his Treasures no man's Soul can be, Nor rest content Uncrown'd ! Desire and Love Must in the height of all their Rapture move, Where there is true Felicity. Employment is the very life and ground Of Life...
Page 239 - So little, if they know the deed, Discern what therefrom shall succeed. To wisest moralists 'tis but given To work rough border-law of Heaven, Within this narrow life of ours, These marches 'twixt delimitless Powers. Is it, if Heaven the future showed, Is it the all-severest mode To see ourselves with the eyes of God? God rather grant, at His assize, He see us not with our own eyes ! Heaven, which man's generations draws, Nor deviates into replicas, Must of as deep diversity In judgement as creation...
Page 110 - How near I walked to Love, How long, I cannot tell. I was like the Aide that flows Quietly through green level lands, So quietly, it knows Their shape, their greenness and their shadows well ; And then undreamingly for miles it goes And silently, beside the sea. Seamews circle over, The winter wildfowl wings, Long and green the grasses wave Between the river and the sea. The sea's cry, wild or grave, From bank to low bank of the river rings ; But the uncertain river though it crave The sea, knows...
Page 174 - Here by the road I loiter, How idle and alone. Ah, past the plunge of plummet, In seas I cannot sound, My heart and soul and senses, World without end, are drowned. His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away. There flowers no balm to sain him From east of earth to west That's lost for everlasting The heart out of his breast.
Page 1 - Herodotus tells us that the sons of the Persians, from their fifth year to their twentieth, were carefully taught three things only, — to ride, to draw the bow, and to speak the truth...
Page 211 - twere a careless trifle.) DUNCAN. / /There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust.
Page 138 - ... spring ! That's Blessedness alone that makes a King ! Wherein the Joys and Treasures are so great, They all the powers of the Soul employ, And fill it with a Work compleat, While it doth all enjoy.
Page 138 - The real lif e of Bliss Is Glory reigning in a Throne. Where all Enjoyment is, The Soul of Man is so inclin'd to see, Without his Treasures no man's Soul can be, Nor rest content Uncrown'd ! Desire and Love Must in the height of all their Rapture move, Where there is true Felicity.