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Page 264 - or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee." Close under the rough stone wall at the left, which separates it from the little grassy orchard of the Manse, is a small mound of turf and a broken stone. Grave and headstone shrink from sight amid the grass and under the wall,
Page 51 - fine old English Gentleman,' simmer it well, Sweeten just to your own private liking, then strain, That only the finest and clearest remain. Let it stand oat of doors till a soul it receives From the warm lazy
Page 295 - he in those hours of gloom, Weary both in heart and head." ONE calm afternoon in the summer of 1837 a young man passed down the elm-shaded walk that separated the old Cragie house, in Cambridge, from the high road.
Page 51 - allow me to speak what I honestly feel, To a true poet-heart add the fun of Dick Steele, Throw in all of Addison, minus the chill, With the whole of that partnership's stock and good-will, Mix well, and while
Page 280 - a curious inquiry how much and what kind of influence the placid scenery of Concord has exercised upon his mind. " I chide society, I embrace solitude," he says; "and yet I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely, and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate.
Page 263 - slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream that seaward creeps.
Page 51 - loitering down through green leaves, And you'll find a choice nature not wholly deserving A name either English or Yankee—just Irving." The eminent success which has attended the late republication of Irving's works, teaches a lesson that we hope will not be lost on the cultivators of literature. It proves a truth which all men of enlightened taste intuitively feel, but which