The Science of the Mind Applied to Teaching: Including the Human Temperaments and Their Influences Upon the Mind; the Analysis of the Mental Faculties, and how to Develop and Train Them; the Theory of Education and the School; and Methods of Instruction and School ManagementFowler & Wells Company, 1885 - 379 pages |
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Page 88 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
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Page 87 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
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