Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
“You must fly from idleness as from sin,” Father Henwick said; “you must never let a regret settle on your mind for an instant. It will often be hard work to resist them; but we are here to fight. You must shut the door in the face of idle thoughts by activity and usefulness....
“What we beheld scarce can I now recall In one connected picture; images Hurrying so swiftly their fresh witcheries O’er the mind’s mirror, that the several Seems lost, or blend...
1. CHAPTER IX.“You must fly from idleness as from sin,” Father Henwick said; “you must never let a regret settle on your mind for an instant. It will often be hard work to resist them; but we...
3. CHAPTER X.November had come, and was gathering up the last tints and blossoms of autumn. One by one the garden lights were being put out; the tall archangel lilies drooped their snow and...
10. CHAPTER XIII.It was one of those exquisitely lovely mornings that we sometimes see in early spring. The night had been frosty, and had hurried to meet the dawn, leaving her moonlight mantle...
9. CHAPTER I.It is probable that most of us have been, at some time in our intellectual and spiritual life, conscious of a divergence between our mental impressions and our received belief r...
11. i. Abstinence, in suppressing the vegetative functions, freesboth the nervous influx and the blood which were distributed among the digestive organs. 2. Contemplation gathers together the contingent of pain dispersed through all the body,...
2. ii. 10), and captivated them to the irrational opinion that there isno higher authority for the obligatory dogmas of the Christian Church than the conviction of every individual, _solvere Jesum_, and then God, was merely a matter of time. What h...
8. ill. The king has been informed of it; he has ordered three physiciansto Asher, and obliged Lady Anne to send him the golden tablets in token of his reconciliation. Furthermore, it is certainly true that the king has said: “I would not lose Wolsey...
7. CHAPTER XII.The night was wild and stormy. The wind had risen to a hurricane, and drove the rain in Raymond’s face as he walked home through the park. It was driving the grass in cold rippl...
4. CHAPTER XI.Crossing from the station to his brougham, Sir Simon saw Mr. Langrove issuing from a cottage on the road. The vicar had been detained later than he foresaw on a sick-call, and w...
5. PART I.It was about eight years before his death that I had the happiness of making acquaintance with Wordsworth. During the next four years I saw a good deal of him, chiefly among his...