Boy: A Sketch, Volume 1Hutchinson & Company, 1900 - 352 pages |
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Page 57 - Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, — act in the living present! Heart within, and GOD o'erhead!
Page 280 - Comfort? comfort scorn'd of devils! this is truth the poet sings; That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
Page 247 - One day ! one night ! yet what a change they bring ! High in the clouds, the same sweet birds may sing : The same green leaves may rustle in the air, And the same flowers, unfold their blossoms fair : Still nature smile, unchanged in all her plan, But, oh, what change may blight the soul of man ! The sun may rise as brightly as before, But many a heart can hail its beams no more...
Page 101 - He acquired in this way an extraordinary habit of suiting the action to the word and the word to the action, of illustrating speech with gesture.
Page 8 - ... lifting a pair of large, angelic blue eyes upwards, till their limpid light seemed to meet and mix with the gold-glint of his tangled curls, he murmured pathetically, — "Oh, Poo Sing! Does 'oo feels ill? Does 'oo feels bad ? Oh, Poo...
Page 113 - We may ask whether for many a child it would not have been happiest never to have grown up at all. Honestly speaking, we cannot grieve for the fair legions of beloved children who have passed away in their childhood, we know, even without the aid of Gospel comfort, that it is 'far better
Page 338 - ... submit to peaceable arbitration. War — especially nowadays — is a mere slaughter-house — and the soldiers are the poor sheep led to the shambles. The real nature of the thing is covered up under flying flags and the shout of patriotism, but, as a matter of stern fact, it is a horrible piece of cowardice for one nation to try murdering another just to see which one gets its way first.
Page 16 - It is impossible not to see, in the eyes of many of these little human creatures, a look of infinite perplexity, sorrow and enquiry, — a look which gradually fades away as they grow older and more accustomed to the ordinary commonplace business of natural existence, while the delicate and dim memories of the Soul in a former state wax faint and indistinct, never to recur again, perhaps, till death re-flashes them on the interior sight with the repeated and everlasting assurance that
Page 18 - For it is a dangerous fallacy to aver that every man has the making of his destiny in his own hands : to a certain extent he has, no doubt, and...
Page 229 - I am so glad to see you !, she cried ; and added rather incoherently, 'And all of us — all of us — of course you ought to be back in your own country. I am so glad you have come back ! , But there was some surprise in her face too. ' And how you have changed ! I don,t believe I should have known you if I had met you in the street.