Brann the Iconoclast - A collection of the Writings of W.C. Brann in two volumens - Vol. Two1905 |
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Page 60 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 130 - His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 250 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 129 - Why, in that elder day, to be a Roman Was greater than a king ! And once again...
Page 227 - As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Page 155 - Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
Page 416 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud in worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them...
Page 199 - But these are all lies : men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Page 204 - ... sweet as the smile when fond lovers meet, and soft as their parting tear!
Page 88 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.