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... side of the poet's character . He evi- dently wanted to portray a Plutarchian man of heroic size , and he therefore had to exclude all that was subtly in- dividualizing . said to me that he was a most invet- erate praiser ? Howells . I ...
... side of the poet's character . He evi- dently wanted to portray a Plutarchian man of heroic size , and he therefore had to exclude all that was subtly in- dividualizing . said to me that he was a most invet- erate praiser ? Howells . I ...
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... side saw his discomfiture , but , before they could reach the door , Master Rick had lifted the latch and was walking triumphantly in . A later friend of his declared that , when he asked , " What has become of that enormous dish of ...
... side saw his discomfiture , but , before they could reach the door , Master Rick had lifted the latch and was walking triumphantly in . A later friend of his declared that , when he asked , " What has become of that enormous dish of ...
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... side , his head turned pite- ously towards the door of his friend , being dragged along the road at the tail of a terrible cart - the cart of a man who bought dead and living cats and dogs for the sake of their skins . A maid was ...
... side , his head turned pite- ously towards the door of his friend , being dragged along the road at the tail of a terrible cart - the cart of a man who bought dead and living cats and dogs for the sake of their skins . A maid was ...
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... side of the head . With this end in view , he arranged a dynamo machine with a feeble current , giving a varying number of interruptions per second , and at- tached one of the poles to a wet sponge which he placed in one of his ears ...
... side of the head . With this end in view , he arranged a dynamo machine with a feeble current , giving a varying number of interruptions per second , and at- tached one of the poles to a wet sponge which he placed in one of his ears ...
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... side door straight to his private room , where he receives his colleagues , and hears of endless questions and motions , which fall like leaves in Vallambrosa around the head of a prime minister . Prob- ably steps will be taken to ...
... side door straight to his private room , where he receives his colleagues , and hears of endless questions and motions , which fall like leaves in Vallambrosa around the head of a prime minister . Prob- ably steps will be taken to ...
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Page 254 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall— Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing yet hath all.
Page 353 - ASK me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose; For in your beauty's orient deep These flowers, as in their causes, sleep. Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day; For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair.
Page 326 - He, too, is no mean preacher: come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher. She has a world of ready wealth, our minds and hearts to bless — spontaneous wisdom breathed by health, truth breathed by cheerfulness.
Page 254 - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death ; Untied unto the world by care Of public fame, or private breath ; Who envies none that chance doth raise...
Page 476 - Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more : and they are cut off from thy hand.
Page 254 - Or vice ; who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise ; Nor rules of state, but rules of good: Who hath his life from rumours freed, Whose conscience is his strong retreat; Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great. Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend...
Page 43 - From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm ; Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.
Page 521 - How many times do I love thee, dear? Tell me how many thoughts there be In the atmosphere Of a new-fall'n year, Whose white and sable. hours appear The latest flake of Eternity :— So many times do I love thee, dear. How many times do I love, again...
Page 477 - I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up : while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Page 476 - Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me ; thou hast made me an abomination unto them : I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.