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Page 25 - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
Page 94 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Page 95 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 56 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 21 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Page 94 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own.
Page 13 - Now books of this kind have been written in all ages by their greatest men : -- by great readers, great statesmen, and great thinkers. These are all at your choice ; and Life is short. You have heard as much before ; -- yet have you measured and mapped out this short life and its possibilities ? Do you know, if you read this, that you cannot read that -- that...
Page 159 - She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff; she stretcheth out her hand to the poor.
Page 158 - She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Page 120 - For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky, To faint in the light of the sun she loves, To faint in his light, and to die. All...
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| Title | Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures, John Ruskin Volume 1 of Works of John Ruskin, John Ruskin |
| Author | John Ruskin |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Smith, Elder, & Company, 1871 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Feb 7, 2008 |
| Length | 172 pages |
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