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... Life as they had known it and Death as it pre- sented itself to their imagination . A few of the passages here printed have not till now appeared in volume form . PAGE 50 50 51 53 53 54 54 56 57 vi This Life and the Mert.
... Life as they had known it and Death as it pre- sented itself to their imagination . A few of the passages here printed have not till now appeared in volume form . PAGE 50 50 51 53 53 54 54 56 57 vi This Life and the Mert.
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... Death , and that vast For - ever. Brown , T. E. Green , J. R. • Doré , G. Symonds , J. A. Alcott , L. M. Daudet , A. Carroll , Lewis Buchanan , R. Gordon , General Nietzsche Thomson , J .. Nettleship , R. L Morris , W. Romanes , G. J. ...
... Death , and that vast For - ever. Brown , T. E. Green , J. R. • Doré , G. Symonds , J. A. Alcott , L. M. Daudet , A. Carroll , Lewis Buchanan , R. Gordon , General Nietzsche Thomson , J .. Nettleship , R. L Morris , W. Romanes , G. J. ...
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Impressions and Thoughts of Notable Men and Women from Plato to Ruskin Estelle Davenport Adams. Life , Death , and that vast For - ever . " C. KINGSLEY . PLATO . SUREL ( 427-347 B.C. ) URELY when the.
Impressions and Thoughts of Notable Men and Women from Plato to Ruskin Estelle Davenport Adams. Life , Death , and that vast For - ever . " C. KINGSLEY . PLATO . SUREL ( 427-347 B.C. ) URELY when the.
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... death with the most perfect equanimity , while the ignorant and unimproved part of our species generally see its approach with the utmost discomposure and reluctance ? Is it not because the more enlightened the mind is , and the farther ...
... death with the most perfect equanimity , while the ignorant and unimproved part of our species generally see its approach with the utmost discomposure and reluctance ? Is it not because the more enlightened the mind is , and the farther ...
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... death should utterly extinguish my existence , as some minute philo- sophers assert , the groundless hope I entertained of an after - life in some better state cannot expose me to the derision of these wonderful sages when they and I ...
... death should utterly extinguish my existence , as some minute philo- sophers assert , the groundless hope I entertained of an after - life in some better state cannot expose me to the derision of these wonderful sages when they and I ...
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Page 27 - Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end, Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Page 192 - I was ever a fighter, so — one fight more, The best and the last!
Page 98 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower...
Page 176 - The wish, that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave, Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soul ? Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams ? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 23 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust ! ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Page 29 - Be absolute for death ; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep. A breath thou art (Servile to all the skyey influences) That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict.
Page 33 - Death, be not proud though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones and soul's delivery.
Page 228 - O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues.
Page 176 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
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 sere: 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.