I slept, and dreamt that life was beauty ; I woke, and found that life was duty." " The person love does to us fit, Like manna, has the taste of all in it. Notes and Queries - Page 1841870Full view - About this book
| 1856 - 594 pages
...Scurts of the Town and it Passed in the Negative."—Andover Advertiser. • " I slept, — and dreamed that life was beauty ; I woke, —and found that life was duty. Was my dream, then, a shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously; And thou shall find thy dream... | |
| 1854 - 290 pages
...desolations With words of unshorn truth, with love that never wearies. JR Lowell. . I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty ; I woke, and found that life was duty: Was my dream, then, a shadowy lie? Toil on, said heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy life... | |
| 1857 - 372 pages
...spring up along your way : Do good, — for ye may not stay! BEAUTY AND DUTY. I SLEPT, — and dreamed that life was beauty ; I woke, — and found that life was duty. Was my dream, then, a shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously; And thou shalt find thy dream... | |
| 1856 - 752 pages
...Scurts of the Town and it Passed in the Negative." — Andover Advertiser. " I slept, — and dreamed that life was beauty ; I woke, —and found that life was duty. Was my dream, then, a shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously ; And thou shall find thy dream... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...to a Rabbinical opinion concerning Manna: Variety I ask not: give me one To live perpetually upon. The person Love does to us fit. Like manna, has the taste of nil in it. Thus Dorine shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastic verses: In every thing there... | |
| 1866 - 684 pages
...vital power. Declamation is mere acting, and is weak, and worse than useless. " I slept, and dreamed that Life was Beauty; I woke and found that Life was Duty: Was then thy dream a shadowy lie ? Strive on, sad heart, courageously, And tlnm sh.-i.li find thy dream... | |
| 1866 - 454 pages
...vital power. Declamation is mere acting, and is weak, and worse than useless. " I slept, and dreamed that Life was Beauty; I woke and found that Life was Duty: Was then thy dream a shadowy lie ? Strive on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 856 pages
...our hearts the feeling that drew forth those golden тегаев of the poet,— I ğlept and dreamed that life was beauty, I woke and found that life was duty,— ЛГав then thy dream a shadowy lie ? Toil on ead heart courageously, And thou shult find thy life... | |
| Augusta Jane Evans - 1860 - 528 pages
...live that long), I shall still be in a schoolroom. Remember the trite line— " 'I dreamed and thought that life was beauty: I woke, and found that life was duty.' Labor, mental and physical, is the heritage of humanity, and happiness is inseparably bound up with... | |
| Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - 1860 - 686 pages
...through the great highway men call I OUGHT. 530 8s M. iifautii ant) iDutn. 1 I SLEPT — and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke — and found that life was duty. Was my dream, then, a shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously ; And thou shalt find thy dream... | |
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