 | New Church gen. confer - 616 pages
...spiritual blessedness and delight, but also sweetly commending those delights and blessings to others. " Be good, my child, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; And so make life, death, and the vast ' for ever ' One grand... | |
 | 1858
...the poet's words — " Be good," my friends, " and let who will be clever ; J)o Christ-like things, not dream them all day long ; And so make life, death, and that vast for ever, One grand, sweet song." May God in heaven himself bid you a Happy New Year ! Watford. THE... | |
 | Baptist missionary society - 1846 - 986 pages
...lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; And so make life, death, and that vast for ever One grand, sweet song. KlNGSLEY. NATIVE PREACHERS' CAKDS. PEKHATS most of the readers of the... | |
 | 1880 - 494 pages
...they went up stairs. CHAPTER III. "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that rast for ever One grand, sweet song."— C. KINOSLEY. " MY dear, I will not encourage it, it is quite... | |
 | J. D. Bell - Conduct of life - 1850 - 488 pages
...some honey-bee the difference between existing and living ! -Let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them, all day long ; And so, make life, death, and that vast forever, A grand, sweet song." When Indolence usurps the throne of the intellect, then courage and the strong... | |
 | Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1889 - 714 pages
...you give her one, you will be repaid many-fold by speaking eye and happy face. " Be good, fair maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long ; And thus make life, death, and the vast forever, One glad, sweet song." What, husband, ought you to do... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...Not so, says the poet Kingsley. " 'Be good, dear child, and let who will be clever, Do noble things, not dream them all day long. And so make life, death and the vast forever One grand, sweet song.' " The speaker declared that only by contributing all its resources... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1860 - 492 pages
...tender and good ; and who will not echo Kingsley's counsel to his daughter, — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble deeds, not dream...make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song." Though Amelia is weak, she has none of the faults usually so trying in persons of her... | |
 | 1859 - 316 pages
...trying you, I must quote it : — " Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them all day long ; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song." as some one, doubtless fresh from reading Kingsley, wrote the other day in this paper... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Poetry - 1858 - 138 pages
...can leave you For every day. n. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song. ODE TO THE NORTHEAST WIND. WELCOME, wild Northeaster! Shame it is to see Odes to every... | |
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Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song. 
