Self Culture, Volumen7,Tema 1Werner Company, 1898 |
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... volumes , Cloth , Sheep or Half Morocco . This set brings the Ninth Edition up to date . Clare's Universal History Complete in five quarto volumes . Cloth binding . Beautiful Britain A book of 385 pages containing views of Royal ...
... volumes , Cloth , Sheep or Half Morocco . This set brings the Ninth Edition up to date . Clare's Universal History Complete in five quarto volumes . Cloth binding . Beautiful Britain A book of 385 pages containing views of Royal ...
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... volume of " Most elegant and wittie epigrams , " many of which are translations from Martial . The following lines on trea- son are well known : - " Treason doth never prosper ; what's the reason ? Why , if it prosper , none dare call ...
... volume of " Most elegant and wittie epigrams , " many of which are translations from Martial . The following lines on trea- son are well known : - " Treason doth never prosper ; what's the reason ? Why , if it prosper , none dare call ...
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... volume . He was dominated by that intense dramatic instinct which made him ad- mire Joanna Baillie to excess , and speak with the most honest self - depreciation of the delicate miniature painting of Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen ...
... volume . He was dominated by that intense dramatic instinct which made him ad- mire Joanna Baillie to excess , and speak with the most honest self - depreciation of the delicate miniature painting of Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen ...
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... volume novel . We toil and struggle and suffer and die , but we keep still , and we the real people of to - day - are the people novelists write about . One thing which in a measure accounts for the better quality of American fic- tion ...
... volume novel . We toil and struggle and suffer and die , but we keep still , and we the real people of to - day - are the people novelists write about . One thing which in a measure accounts for the better quality of American fic- tion ...
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... volumes containing selections of the more simple of his poems were issued ; and men began to understand that his books were like a fleet of great ships , that had sailed all seas and visited all ports , and bore the treasures of all ...
... volumes containing selections of the more simple of his poems were issued ; and men began to understand that his books were like a fleet of great ships , that had sailed all seas and visited all ports , and bore the treasures of all ...
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Página 7 - SOME ask'd me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say : But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where ; Then spoke I to my girl, To part her lips, and show'd them there The quarelets of Pearl.
Página 73 - Every reader has his first book ; I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind.
Página 45 - I have gone the whole round of creation: I saw and I spoke. I, a work of God's hand for that purpose, received in my brain, And pronounced on, the rest of his handwork, — returned him again His creation's approval or censure; I spoke as I saw. I report, as a man may of God's work: all's love, yet all's law.
Página 9 - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
Página 10 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
Página 24 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Página 78 - With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Página 11 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Página 22 - As this old gentleman, who had been in all the German wars, found very few to listen to his tales of military feats, he formed a sort of alliance with me, and I used invariably to attend him for the pleasure of hearing those communications.