Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1909 - 1104 páginas |
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... Nature wrong , Delaying long - delay no more . - Tennyson . In the example from Swinburne , the sounds of f , l , and ab , and in that from Tennyson , the sounds of d , n , and 7 , are interlinked with wondrous harmonic result . But ...
... Nature wrong , Delaying long - delay no more . - Tennyson . In the example from Swinburne , the sounds of f , l , and ab , and in that from Tennyson , the sounds of d , n , and 7 , are interlinked with wondrous harmonic result . But ...
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... Nature's own creating . JAMES THOMSON : Coriolanus , iii . 3 . What can they see in the longest kingly line in ... natural extension of meaning , was applied to authors as well as mere pen- men : Here lies Nolly Goldsmith , for shortness ...
... Nature's own creating . JAMES THOMSON : Coriolanus , iii . 3 . What can they see in the longest kingly line in ... natural extension of meaning , was applied to authors as well as mere pen- men : Here lies Nolly Goldsmith , for shortness ...
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... nature when you dare to insinuate that our divine minds are actuated by motives so base . A love of justice influences us . We are above mean revenge . We are too magnanimous to be angry at the award of such a judge in favor of such a ...
... nature when you dare to insinuate that our divine minds are actuated by motives so base . A love of justice influences us . We are above mean revenge . We are too magnanimous to be angry at the award of such a judge in favor of such a ...
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... Nature has produced no being so near the Yahoo as ' Arry , the flower of our earnest mechanical civilization . By his pleasures he is known , on his holidays he is to be studied , for then he escapes from the yoke of civilization , and ...
... Nature has produced no being so near the Yahoo as ' Arry , the flower of our earnest mechanical civilization . By his pleasures he is known , on his holidays he is to be studied , for then he escapes from the yoke of civilization , and ...
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... nature's cabinet Stella thou straight look'st babies in her eyes . SIDNEY : Astrophel and Stella . See where little Cupid lies Looking babies in the eyes . DRAYTON . And pictures in our eyes to get Was all our propagation . DONNE : The ...
... nature's cabinet Stella thou straight look'st babies in her eyes . SIDNEY : Astrophel and Stella . See where little Cupid lies Looking babies in the eyes . DRAYTON . And pictures in our eyes to get Was all our propagation . DONNE : The ...
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Página 616 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 208 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Página 230 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Página 125 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Página 711 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 258 - Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, Such as thine are, and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Página 713 - Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
Página 739 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Página 741 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Página 637 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.