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... kind of verse Longfellow was always on the verge of a supreme success which - perhaps because his ear was defective , and in spite of him- self something always " remained un- done " he never quite attained . Yet for perfect simplicity ...
... kind of verse Longfellow was always on the verge of a supreme success which - perhaps because his ear was defective , and in spite of him- self something always " remained un- done " he never quite attained . Yet for perfect simplicity ...
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... kind of song Hannah would have sung . We can know this only by comparing analogous cases , but the Old Testa- ment offers no parallel . Hannah is in the precise position of a poet who has received largess from some exalted personage ...
... kind of song Hannah would have sung . We can know this only by comparing analogous cases , but the Old Testa- ment offers no parallel . Hannah is in the precise position of a poet who has received largess from some exalted personage ...
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... kind of mounting in which the envi- The Nineteenth Century and After . ronment of the characters would be conceived on the lines of impressionis- tic suggestion rather than inartistic reality . We do not want the essays in eccentric ...
... kind of mounting in which the envi- The Nineteenth Century and After . ronment of the characters would be conceived on the lines of impressionis- tic suggestion rather than inartistic reality . We do not want the essays in eccentric ...
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... kind of steady , rather silent , dour English artisans , better paid than most workmen at that date , but painting stolidly for daily bread , and drawing his thirty - five or forty shillings a week in quite a non - romantic and ...
... kind of steady , rather silent , dour English artisans , better paid than most workmen at that date , but painting stolidly for daily bread , and drawing his thirty - five or forty shillings a week in quite a non - romantic and ...
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... kind of privation and sorrow . Late in the year 1808 Sarah Billingsley , then twenty - five years old , wrote to her mother with great secrecy , addressing the letter to a third hand , mentioning no names , using initials only , and ...
... kind of privation and sorrow . Late in the year 1808 Sarah Billingsley , then twenty - five years old , wrote to her mother with great secrecy , addressing the letter to a third hand , mentioning no names , using initials only , and ...
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Page 544 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 15 - Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: ' A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 26 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 128 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Page 696 - Commons; and all bills for the granting of any such aids and supplies ought to begin with the Commons; and that it is the undoubted and sole right of the Commons to direct, limit and appoint in such bills, the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations, and qualifications of such grants which ought not to be changed or altered by the House of Lords...
Page 404 - To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's self with the forced product of another man's brain. Now I think a man of quality and breeding may be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own.
Page 26 - O pardon ! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million, And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.
Page 644 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last. Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame? I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart, I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. Thou hast...
Page 282 - The satirist" may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind.
Page 355 - What then is man ! What then is man ! He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before the moth. Yet in the being and in the working of a faithful man is there already (as all faith from the beginning gives assurance) a something that pertains not to this wild death-element of Time ; that triumphs over Time, and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more.