Bennie, the Pythian of Syracuse: And Other Titles |
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Bennie, the Pythian of Syracuse: And Other Titles (1901) Lewis Barnett Fretz No preview available - 2008 |
BENNIE THE PYTHIAN OF SYRACUSE Lewis Barnett Fretz,Scroll Publishing Company Pbl No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 97 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, ' Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Page 97 - ... to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Page 97 - For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 97 - A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
Page 86 - Oh! these battles they last so long, From babyhood to the grave. Yet, faithful still as a bridge of stars, She fights in her walled-up town; Fights on and on in the endless wars, Then silent, unseen, goes down.
Page 31 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 86 - Oh, ye with banners and battle shot, And soldiers to shout and praise ! I tell you the kingliest victories fought Were fought in these silent ways. Oh, spotless woman in a world of shame, With splendid and silent scorn, Go back to God as white as you came — The kingliest warrior born ! St.
Page 85 - The bravest battle that ever was fought ; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not ; It was fought by the mothers of men.
Page 37 - ... to circumference, true to the heart's core. Men who will condemn wrong in friend or foe, in themselves as well as others. Men whose consciences are as steady as the needle to the pole. Men who will stand for the right if the heavens totter and the earth reels. Men who can tell the truth, and look the world and the devil right in the eye. Men that neither brag nor run. Men that neither flag nor flinch. Men who cnn have courage without shouting to it.
Page 110 - I am here upon the scaffold ! look at me ; I am standing on my throne ; as proud a one As yon illumined mountain, where the sun Makes his last stand ; let him look on me too , He never did behold a spectacle More full of natural glory. Death is...