Tinsley's Magazine, Volume 13

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Tinsley Brothers, 1873
 

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Page 455 - ... to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Page 386 - Through wood and stream and field and hill and Ocean A quickening life from the Earth's heart has burst As it has ever done, with change and motion, From the great morning of the world when first God dawned on Chaos...
Page 522 - He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
Page 416 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 455 - A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all • kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body, and it is not much otherwise in the mind...
Page 112 - Sigh no more, lady, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever : One foot on sea and one on land, To one thing constant never.
Page 455 - Merciful heaven! — What, man ! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows : Give sorrow words : the grief, that does not speak, Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it Ijn ;ik.
Page 91 - But we insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know.
Page 171 - The economic system, as Ruskin put it, 'manufactures everything but men'. That consequence is the basis of its reasoning, rather than its result. The ideas are ideology rather than grounds for action. What is then seen is not an idea but a system which uses ideas. Everything, from...
Page 91 - Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centering in some long-recognisable deed.

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