Edwin Wilkins Field: A Memorial Sketch

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Macmillan and Company, 1872 - 175 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 106 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth...
الصفحة 107 - To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.
الصفحة 156 - Now thanks to Heaven ! that of its grace Hath led me to this lonely place. Joy have I had; and going hence I bear away my recompense.
الصفحة 107 - 11 find me ready, — happier man am I. Cleon sees no charms in nature, in a daisy I ; Cleon hears no anthems ringing in the sea and sky; Nature sings to me forever, earnest listener I ; State for state, with all attendants, who would change ? Not I.
الصفحة 72 - An Act for amending the Law relating to Copyright in Works of the Fine Arts, and for repressing the Commission of Fraud in the Production and Sale of such Works.
الصفحة 107 - Mankind are always happier for having been happy ; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence, by the memory of it.
الصفحة 18 - An Act to abolish the office of Master in Ordinary of the High Court of Chancery, and to make provision for the more speedy and efficient despatch of business in the said Court.
الصفحة 154 - WHAT we, when face to face we see The Father of our souls, shall be, John tells us, doth not yet appear ; Ah ! did he tell what we are here ! A mind for thoughts to pass into, A heart for loves to travel through, Five senses to detect things near, Is this the whole that we are here ? Rules baffle instincts— instincts rules, Wise men are bad— and good are fools, Facts evil — wishes vain appear, We cannot go, why are we here...
الصفحة 15 - An Act to amend the Acts for facilitating the winding up the Affairs of Joint Stock Companies unable to meet their pecuniary Engagements ; and also to facilitate the Dissolution and winding up of Joint Stock Companies and other Partnerships.
الصفحة 152 - ... garment, is she therefore naked ? A child looks forward to his new suit, and dons it joyfully ; we cling to our rags and foulness. We should welcome Death as one who brings us tidings of the finding of long-lost titles to a large family estate, and set out gladly to take possession, though, it may be, not without a natural tear for the humbler home we are leaving. Death always means us a kindness, though he has often a gruff way of offering it.

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