| Calvin Pease - 1842 - Broj stranica: 56
...began with wonder and unconscious sympathy. Familiarity produced indifference, And custom lay upon us with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life. * The green earth and the blue heavens excite in us a thrill no longer. The spontaneous feeling and impulse... | |
| 1843 - Broj stranica: 454
...their blessedness at strife ; Full soon the soul shall bear her earthly freight, And custom lie upon it with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! " the world cannot give or take away, will arouse it to the consciousness of — " Thoughts that wake To... | |
| 1855 - Broj stranica: 494
...must give up all hope of reform. It is, «las! always to be said of those in power in Britain — " Custom lies upon them with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life." ТНEEЬКЁЫХ HINTS ON EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING. IN giving these hints, it is of... | |
| Henry Mandeville - 1851 - Broj stranica: 396
...darkness lost, the darkness of the grave ; Thou, over whom thy immortality 3 And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life. The years to bring the inevitable yoke : Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Full soon thy soul... | |
| Henry Morley - 1857 - Broj stranica: 462
...fearless ; they must do as they see neighbours doing, stoop to propitiate their customers — " And custom lies upon them with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! " For my own part I shall think well before I entrust any teacher with the training... | |
| John Dennis (of London.) - 1860 - Broj stranica: 186
...intolerable tyrant ; the habits of society, which to many minds are almost a religion — " Hang upon us with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life." The patrimony of past experience, valuable though it be, too often fetters the mind, and forbids an independent... | |
| Sir Rowland Hill, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1880 - Broj stranica: 596
...life. They who do not master this lesson betimes find it a hard thing to master it at all ; for soon custom lies upon them with a weight — " Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life." From them no small part of the world is likely to remain hidden. To not a little that... | |
| George R Aberigh- Mackay - 1880 - Broj stranica: 284
...office; his mother is deadened by the gloomy routine of economy and fashion ; custom lies upon her with a weight heavy as frost and deep almost as life ; the fountains of natural fancy and mirth are frozen over ; so Baby lisps his dawn paeans in soft Oriental... | |
| Robert Durie Osborn - 1881 - Broj stranica: 72
...gravitation or the daily revolution of the earth. These are the men who never observe and reflect. Custom lies upon them with a weight "heavy as frost and deep almost as life." They have always been accustomed to play that particular stroke in that particular... | |
| George R Aberigh- Mackay - 1882 - Broj stranica: 260
...office ; his mother is deadened by the gloomy routine of economy and fashion ; custom lies upon her with a weight heavy as frost and deep almost as life ; the fountains of natural fancy and mirth are frozen over ; so Baby lisps his dawn paeans in soft Oriental... | |
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