The Melancholy of Stephen Allard: A Private DiaryGarnet Smith Macmillan, 1895 - 305 pages |
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Page 74 - I think one is always in love with something or other ; the error, and I confess it is not easy for spirits cased in flesh and blood to avoid it, consists in seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternaL Hunt is not yet arrived, but I expect him every day.
Page 99 - ... Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented. Sometimes am I king; Then treason makes me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again; and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleas'd, till he be eas'd With being nothing.
Page 277 - Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am : then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king ; Then am I king'd again : and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing : but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.
Page 230 - Ah ! quiet dell ! dear Cot, and mount sublime ! I was constrained to quit you. Was it right, While my unnumbered brethren toiled and bled, That I should dream away the entrusted hours On rose-leaf beds, pampering the coward heart With feelings all too delicate for use...
Page 229 - Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away!
Page 291 - O ! that my lot may lead me in the path of holy innocence of word and deed, the path which august laws ordain, laws that in the highest empyrean had their birth, of which Heaven is the father alone, neither did the race of mortal man beget them, nor shall oblivion ever put them to sleep. The power of God is mighty in them, and groweth not old.
Page 208 - ... if the reformers of society and government could succeed in their objects, and every person in the community were free and in a state of physical comfort, the pleasures of life, being no longer kept up by struggles and privation, would cease to be pleasures.
Page 225 - Lady, I fain would tell how evermore Thy soul I know not from thy body, nor Thee from myself, neither our love from God.