 | Richard Wrench - Methodist Biography - 1859 - 68 pages
...They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. No matter how poor I am. No matter, though the prosperous of my own time will not enter ray obscure dwelling, if the satred writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof ; if Milton... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1860 - 662 pages
...his early life, he could have truly adopted the language of Channing : ' No matter how poor I am. Mo matter though the prosperous of my own time will not...cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise ; and Shakspeare, to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart ; and Franklin,... | |
 | Education - 1860 - 664 pages
...considered a solitary man. In his early life, he could have truly adopted the language of Channing : ' No matter how poor I am. No matter though the prosperous...take up their abode under my roof; if Milton will cruss my threshold to sing to me of Paradise ; and Shakspeare, to open to me the worlds of imagination... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1862 - 854 pages
...will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am. No matter though the prosperous...cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and Shaksgeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...faithfully use them the .-••i-iety, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am, — no matter though the...cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and Shak~;t-are to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings »!' the human heart, and Franklin... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the pros- ; perous o pride, Shakspeare to open to me t he worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...will faithfully use them the socicty, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am, — no matter though the...time will not enter my obscure dwelling, — if the saered writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof, if Milton will eross my threshold... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1862 - 204 pages
...follows " Farewell may Heaven prosper thee in thy perilous enterprise " 5. If the sacred writers will take up their abode under my roof if Milton will cross my threshold, to sing to me of Paradise if Shakspeare will open to me the' fields of imagination I shall not pine for want of company 6. Beauty... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am, — no matter though the...dwelling, — if the sacred writers will enter and take np their abode under my roof, if Milton* will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and Shakspeare*... | |
 | 1863 - 910 pages
...with us, and givo us their most precious thoughts. Books are the voices of the distant and the dead. If Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and Shakspeare open to me the world of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin enrich... | |
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