The Listener, Volume 1Latimer and Company, 1832 |
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... prepare to draw , and one almost opened a book . But , alas ! the shades of night were growing fast : ten minutes had scarcely elapsed before each one resigned her occupation with a murmur at the darkness of the weather ; and though ...
... prepare to draw , and one almost opened a book . But , alas ! the shades of night were growing fast : ten minutes had scarcely elapsed before each one resigned her occupation with a murmur at the darkness of the weather ; and though ...
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... prepare for the re- turning sun far other landscape than that he shone upon before he set . I was some distance yet from home , and liking to observe nature in all her varied aspects , I sought shelter in the porch of a handsome ...
... prepare for the re- turning sun far other landscape than that he shone upon before he set . I was some distance yet from home , and liking to observe nature in all her varied aspects , I sought shelter in the porch of a handsome ...
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... preparing to go forth to their labour , I desired at least to hear , what all who will listen may hear , a word of truth from the still voice of nature . There is so striking an affinity between the moral and the natural world ...
... preparing to go forth to their labour , I desired at least to hear , what all who will listen may hear , a word of truth from the still voice of nature . There is so striking an affinity between the moral and the natural world ...
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... preparing ? " And then I consi- dered the goodness of God in this institution , by which one day in seven is separated from the rest to be employed in making happy what the occupa- tions of the other six too often tend to make wretch ...
... preparing ? " And then I consi- dered the goodness of God in this institution , by which one day in seven is separated from the rest to be employed in making happy what the occupa- tions of the other six too often tend to make wretch ...
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... preparing . A little longer musing , and I should have persuaded myself the Sabbath was a day that all men love , and the calm of na- ture , what all were sharing , and the song of grati- tude what all were singing . But truth was at ...
... preparing . A little longer musing , and I should have persuaded myself the Sabbath was a day that all men love , and the calm of na- ture , what all were sharing , and the song of grati- tude what all were singing . But truth was at ...
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Page 81 - tis slander; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 26 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light; She for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding and no wit, Receives no praise; but though her lot be such, (Toilsome and indigent) she renders much; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth the brilliant...
Page 129 - Providence brings us in connexion, whether we meet them for a day or an hour, or the whole compass of our lives. We are not to be idle to please the idle; or ignorant to please the ignorant; or vicious to please the vicious: and, if we were, we should not succeed in pleasing them. But we are to rejoice with those that rejoice, and to weep with those that weep.
Page 16 - CONVERSATION. Conversation is the daughter of reasoning, the mother of knowledge, the breath of the soul, the commerce of hearts, the bond of friendship, the nourishment of contentment, and the occupation of men of wit. " HOLD your tongue, Miss Julia, little girls should be seen and not heard,
Page 31 - In the broad road, to use her own expressions, there were many walking, it was smooth and pleasant, and they got on fast — but the end of it was dark. On the narrow road she herself was treading and some few others — but the way was rugged — some turned back, and others sat down unable to proceed. She herself advanced till she reached a place more beautiful, she said, than any thing to which she could compare it. When asked what it was like, she could not say, but that it was very bright, and...
Page 28 - I might have determined that here at least was a spot where happiness could not dwell — one being, at least, to whom enjoyment upon earth must be forbidden by external circumstance — with whom to live was of necessity to be wretched. Well might the Listener in such a scene as this be startled by expressions of delight, strangely contrasted with the murmurs we are used to hear amid the world's abundance. But it was even so. From the pale shrivelled lips of this poor woman we heard a whispering...
Page 8 - ... them. Nature itself wore the garb of sadness, and man's too dependent spirits were ready to assume it — those, at least, that were not so happy as to find means of forgetting it. Such was the case with my unfortunate self. I had descended to the breakfast-room, at the usual hour, but no one appeared; I looked for a book, but found none but an almanac.
Page 10 - ... purpose was in the task. A third resumed the newspaper he had read for a whole hour before, and betook himself at last to the advertisements. A fourth repaired to the alcove — gathered some flowers, picked them to pieces, threw them away again, and returned. " Cease thy prating, thou never-resting time-piece," said I to myself,