William Newton Clarke: A Biography

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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916 - 262 páginas

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Página 162 - Still thou turnedst, and still Beckonedst the trembler, and still Gavest the weary thy hand. If, in the paths of the world, Stones might have wounded thy feet, Toil or dejection have tried Thy spirit, of that we saw Nothing - to us thou wast still Cheerful, and helpful, and firm! Therefore to thee it was given Many to save with thyself; And, at the end of thy day, O faithful shepherd! to come, Bringing thy sheep in thy hand.
Página 162 - But thou would'st not alone Be saved, my father! alone Conquer and come to thy goal, Leaving the rest in the wild.
Página 166 - For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart; He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.
Página 114 - All things come by nature;" and the elements and stars came over me, so that I was in a manner quite clouded with it. But as I sat still, and silent, the people of the house perceived nothing.
Página 167 - O'er Sappho's memory-haunted billow, But where the glistening night-dews weep On nameless sorrow's churchyard pillow.
Página 3 - My object is to interpret to the world the New England life and character in that particular time of its history which may be called the seminal period.
Página 101 - Strains nor voice nor reed can match ; Many a silver, sphery note Shall within his hearing float. All around him Patmos lies, Who unto God's priestess flies : Thou, O nature, bid him see, Through all guises worn by thee, A divine apocalypse. Manifold his fellowships : Now the rocks their archives ope ; Voiceless creatures tell their hope In a language symbol-wrought ; Groves to him sigh out their thought ; Musings of the flower...
Página 3 - New England has been to these United States what the Dorian hive was to Greece. It has always been a capital country to emigrate from, and North, South, East, and West have been populated largely from New England, so that the seed-bed of New England was the seed-bed of this great American Republic, and of all that is likely to come of it.
Página 3 - I would endeavor to show you New England in its seed-bed, before the hot suns of modern progress had developed its sprouting germs into the great trees of to-day.
Página 160 - It is much, no doubt, to have a decent ceremonial of worship, and an educated, polite sort of person to administer it. But the main want of the world, as I gather, just now, and of this parish especially, which is that part of the world with which I am altogether best acquainted, is to discover some one who...

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