Littell's Living Age, Volumen214Living Age Company Incorporated, 1897 |
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... perhaps the most typical instance of such a claim being advanced in perfect good faith and without the slightest concep- tion that there was anything to be urged against it . Addison , to be sure , was humility itself compared with Jef ...
... perhaps the most typical instance of such a claim being advanced in perfect good faith and without the slightest concep- tion that there was anything to be urged against it . Addison , to be sure , was humility itself compared with Jef ...
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... perhaps he was only to blame in not warning them off a very obvious and well - marked shoal . He did his best , we honestly believe , to clear his mind of cant , and we can in- agine him secretly writhing at the loud- mouthed dictum of ...
... perhaps he was only to blame in not warning them off a very obvious and well - marked shoal . He did his best , we honestly believe , to clear his mind of cant , and we can in- agine him secretly writhing at the loud- mouthed dictum of ...
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... perhaps the most laughable of the many farces which have been played on the Oxford stage . It has , no doubt , the ... Perhaps he permitted the college to grow too large , but we doubt if he could have kept it small . Perhaps he was too ...
... perhaps the most laughable of the many farces which have been played on the Oxford stage . It has , no doubt , the ... Perhaps he permitted the college to grow too large , but we doubt if he could have kept it small . Perhaps he was too ...
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... perhaps an exagger- ated importance to the gifts which en- sure popularity in good society is true also . “ I dare say , " he writes to a lady in India , " that you have already found a great solvent of political difficulties is to give ...
... perhaps an exagger- ated importance to the gifts which en- sure popularity in good society is true also . “ I dare say , " he writes to a lady in India , " that you have already found a great solvent of political difficulties is to give ...
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... " and beyond " I - own , " it has not even now advanced ; whilst " I - rene " in two syllables is equally cur- tailed . The curiosities of meteorology in these islands would perhaps repay a leisured observer ; they 32 A Land of Derelicts .
... " and beyond " I - own , " it has not even now advanced ; whilst " I - rene " in two syllables is equally cur- tailed . The curiosities of meteorology in these islands would perhaps repay a leisured observer ; they 32 A Land of Derelicts .
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Página 183 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Página 370 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints...
Página 344 - The tumult and the shouting dies — The captains and the kings depart; Still stands Thine ancient Sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us vet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!
Página 368 - ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC ONCE did she hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of liberty. She was a maiden city, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a mate, She must espouse the everlasting sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles vanish, and that strength decay ; Yet shall some tribute of regret be...
Página 548 - ... wanton, smile upon my knee ; When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.
Página 45 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 163 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Página 547 - Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content ; The quiet mind is richer than a crown ; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent ; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown : Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss.
Página 556 - I sat and spun within the doore, My thread brake off, I raised myne eyes The level sun, like ruddy ore, Lay sinking in the barren skies ; And dark against day's golden death She moved where Lindis wandereth, My sonne's faire wife, Elizabeth. "Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!" calling, Ere the early dews were falling, Farre away I heard her song.
Página 351 - They say, miracles are past ; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence it is, that we make trifles of terrors ; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when •we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.