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“Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.”

Giving Feels Mind Mean Children Littles Ends Hands Pleasure Summer Delight Flats Globes Lawns Shiver Glee It Is What It Is Firmness

Author:Charles Edward Montague

“And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.”

Littles Eye Delight Brown Feathers Dove

Book:A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Source: A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .”

Giving Littles Art Stills Book Soul Age Lying Rooms Wonder Alive Stage Praise Delight Wit Thee Monument Applause Tombs Lodges Chaucer Spenser

Book:Ben Jonson

Source: Ben Jonson

“What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather.”

Littles Character Fall Bits Voice Events Paper Little Bit Delight Hearing Strongest Towers Leafs Feathers Caprice Receipts

Book:Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition

Source: Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition

“Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.”

Thinking Littles Joy Taste Approach Delight Gentle Pairs Woe

Book:The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan

Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan