| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...stronger than the Titans, stronger than Apollo. Few have overheard the gods, or surprised their secret. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived...The toys, to be sure, are various, and are graduated »n refinement to the quality of the dupe. The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 270 pages
...stronger than the Titans, stronger than Apollo. Few have overheard the gods, or surprised their secret. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived...another riddle. There are as many pillows of illusion as Hakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream. The toys, to be sure, are various,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 120 pages
...than the Titans, stronger than Apollo. Tew have overheard the gods, or surprised their secret. Lite is a succession of lessons which must be lived to...another riddle. There are as many pillows of illusion as Hakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream. The toys, to be sure, are various,... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1864 - 672 pages
...visionary face. It is but a choice between soft and turbulent dreams."§ Again, in his latest work : " Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived...snowstorm. We wake from one dream into another dream. . . . Everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and... | |
| 1868 - 402 pages
...Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding." — " There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in...snow-storm ; we wake from one dream into another dream." Spencer says, — " The three stages through which opinion passes are the unanimity of the ignorant,... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1871 - 354 pages
...visionary face. It is but a choice between soft and turbulent dreams." Again, in his latest work : " Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived...There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow storm. We wake from one dream into another dream. Everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and... | |
| Mrs. G. H. Taylor - 1877 - 144 pages
...world and time? A fleeting thought in the great meditating universe. A brief parenthesis in chaos. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood, Goethe. The heart can wear itself out with its own bitterness. Who can comprehend the nature of a woman's... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 330 pages
...stronger than the Titans, stronger than Apollo. Few have overheard the gods or surprised their secret. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived...another riddle. There are as many pillows of illusion OH flakes in a (mow-storm. Wo wako from one dream into another dream. The toys to bo sure are various,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...stronger than the Titans, stronger than Apollo. Few have overheard the gods, or surprised their secret. Лll is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle. There arc as many pillows of illusion as... | |
| Phineas Garrett - 1885 - 974 pages
...mimicked been, But honest Charity is e'er the -same, — • The fairest, purest gem, the world hath seen. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived...snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream. Emerson. Though at times my spirit fails me, And the bitter tear-drops fall, Though my lot be hard... | |
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