Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song. The Oxford examiner, ed. by M.W.I. Shilleto - Page 157edited by - 1882Full view - About this book
| Charles Kingsley - 1857 - 356 pages
...is not verse, but righteousness. Do you recollect, Queen Whims, what I wrote once in your album ? ' Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them, all day long, So making life, death, and that vast forever, One grand, sweet song.'" " Yes, as I smoke my cigar,... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1857 - 432 pages
...righteousness. Do you recollect, Queen Whims, what I wrote once in your album? 'Be good, sweetmaid, and let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them, all day long, So making life, death, and that vast forever, One grand, sweet song.' " "But, you naughty, hypocritical... | |
| 1860 - 492 pages
...is, but she is also tender and good ; and who will not echo Kingsley's counsel to his daughter, — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long ; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet... | |
| 1858 - 402 pages
...lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey: Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;...death, and that vast for ever, One grand, sweet song. There were reasons why we should look with more than common interest at the little volume of " London... | |
| 1859 - 316 pages
...one passage so beautiful, and so terse, that even at the risk of trying you, I must quote it : — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;...day long ; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song." as some one, doubtless fresh from reading Kingsley, wrote the other... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1858 - 188 pages
...could pipe to skies so dull and grey : Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. ii. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;...day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song. ELEGIACS. TTTEARILY stretches the sand to the surge, and the surge... | |
| 1858 - 740 pages
...skies so dull and gray : Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, eweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things,...day long : And so make life, death, and that vast ibr erer One grand, sweet song. Charlti Kingiley. KEVIVAL IN AMERICA. THE following is from the report... | |
| 1858 - 734 pages
...is God's work for us, and He will not withhold the reward. Teach the girls these things. Let them " Do noble things, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that great forever, One grand, sweet song." OUR SCHOOLS. [From the Cambridge Chronicle. The evils described... | |
| 1859 - 396 pages
...could pipe to skies so dull and gray ; Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day : — Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ;...death, and that vast for ever, One grand, sweet song. СПАШ-ЕЗ KlNGSLEY. 170 177 The Sexton. FORGIVENESS OF DEBTS. — A TRUE STORY.» ВТ "Л. SEXTOlf... | |
| Norman Macleod - 1859 - 564 pages
...could pipe to skies so dull and gray; Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For everу day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do...all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast Forever One grand, sweet song. —Ren. C. KingtliyTHE " GUEST'S" BIBLE QUESTIONS FOR THK гопHо.... | |
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