The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough: With a Selection from His Letters and a Memoir, Volume 1 |
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... sight of the ship on the bay . One November morning , while we were at our lessons with our mother , there came a hasty ring at the bell . We wanted to look out and see if visitors were coming LIFE OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH .
... sight of the ship on the bay . One November morning , while we were at our lessons with our mother , there came a hasty ring at the bell . We wanted to look out and see if visitors were coming LIFE OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH .
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... look out and see if visitors were coming . We were not fond of visitors , and generally used to run off to our nursery at sight of them , but our mother would not let us peep this time ; we must attend to our lessons , she said ; she ...
... look out and see if visitors were coming . We were not fond of visitors , and generally used to run off to our nursery at sight of them , but our mother would not let us peep this time ; we must attend to our lessons , she said ; she ...
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... look for a favourite tree , to our great grief , we found it gone . These sands were the haunt of innumerable curlews whose wild screams seemed to make the shore more lonely still . A beautiful grove of myrtles rose farther along the ...
... look for a favourite tree , to our great grief , we found it gone . These sands were the haunt of innumerable curlews whose wild screams seemed to make the shore more lonely still . A beautiful grove of myrtles rose farther along the ...
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... look up to a Heavenly one . She loved to dwell on all that was stern and noble . Leonidas at Thermopyla , and Epaminondas accepting the lowliest offices and doing them as a duty to his country ; the sufferings of the martyrs , and the ...
... look up to a Heavenly one . She loved to dwell on all that was stern and noble . Leonidas at Thermopyla , and Epaminondas accepting the lowliest offices and doing them as a duty to his country ; the sufferings of the martyrs , and the ...
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... look religious questions full in the face , and he could no longer take any dogmatic teaching on trust . He ignored no difficulties , he accepted nothing because it was pleasant - he could retain faith in nothing but his own soul . But ...
... look religious questions full in the face , and he could no longer take any dogmatic teaching on trust . He ignored no difficulties , he accepted nothing because it was pleasant - he could retain faith in nothing but his own soul . But ...
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Page 80 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 276 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 392 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 320 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Page 344 - More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Page 376 - M. die, quibus in terris inscripti nomina regum nascantur flores, et Phyllida solus habeto. P. non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites. et vitula tu dignus et hie, et quisquis amores aut metuet dulces aut experietur amaros.
Page 16 - Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 323 - Through busiest street and loneliest glen Are felt the flashes of his pen : He rules mid winter snows, and when Bees fill their hives : Deep in the general heart of men His power survives.
Page 390 - And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
Page 375 - On the blanch'd sands a gloom; Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright seaweed The ebb-tide leaves dry. We will gaze, from the sand-hills, At the white, sleeping town; At the church on the hill-side — And then come back down. Singing: "There dwells a loved one, But cruel is she ! She left lonely for ever The kings of the sea.