Littell's Living Age, Volume 264Living Age Company, 1910 |
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... to- day is beneficial and occasionally ex- tremely valuable . It is to be remem- bered that the two greatest patriots whom Mexico has known - Hidalgo and Morelos - were both parish priests who threw away the surplice for the sword ; and ...
... to- day is beneficial and occasionally ex- tremely valuable . It is to be remem- bered that the two greatest patriots whom Mexico has known - Hidalgo and Morelos - were both parish priests who threw away the surplice for the sword ; and ...
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... to feel the pulse of popular sentiment as it rises and falls almost from day to day , and especially so at times when his country has been confronted by is- sues of the gravest consequence , neces- sitating prompt and even drastic ac ...
... to feel the pulse of popular sentiment as it rises and falls almost from day to day , and especially so at times when his country has been confronted by is- sues of the gravest consequence , neces- sitating prompt and even drastic ac ...
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... to the student - the man or woman who goes regularly to the galleries with a defi- nite educative purpose in view . The importance of considering the needs of the student has long been recog- nized by setting apart certain days of the ...
... to the student - the man or woman who goes regularly to the galleries with a defi- nite educative purpose in view . The importance of considering the needs of the student has long been recog- nized by setting apart certain days of the ...
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He Poor lad ! It seemed to him , as it has seemed to so many energetic and ambitious youngsters when a halt is ... day , view it how you will : five - and - thirty years ago , when young Garnier ruled over it , it must have been a more ...
He Poor lad ! It seemed to him , as it has seemed to so many energetic and ambitious youngsters when a halt is ... day , view it how you will : five - and - thirty years ago , when young Garnier ruled over it , it must have been a more ...
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... to - day his statue stands in the most incongruous spot in all Asia , looking down upon the meretricious frivolity of les civilisés of Saigon ! Was it my fancy only that seemed to mark an expression of awful melan- choly in that still ...
... to - day his statue stands in the most incongruous spot in all Asia , looking down upon the meretricious frivolity of les civilisés of Saigon ! Was it my fancy only that seemed to mark an expression of awful melan- choly in that still ...
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Page 229 - Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Page 407 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 202 - At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a flutter'd bird, came flying from far away: "Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!
Page 610 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, — Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring, — Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling...
Page 388 - Lamp of Earth ! where'er thou movest, Its dim shapes are clad with brightness, And the souls of whom thou lovest Walk upon the winds with lightness, Till they fail, as I am failing, Dizzy, lost, yet unbewailing ! ASIA.
Page 388 - Life of Life ! thy lips enkindle With their love the breath between them ; And thy smiles before they dwindle Make the cold air fire; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes.
Page 611 - For I trust if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the rushing battle-bolt sang from the three-decker out of the foam, That the smooth-faced snubnosed rogue would leap from his counter and till, And strike, if he could, were it but with his cheating yardwand, home.
Page 185 - While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 197 - By me o'r thee, as justments to the dead, Forgive, forgive me ; since I did not know Whether thy bones had here their rest, or no. But now 'tis known, behold, behold, I bring Unto thy ghost th...
Page 388 - I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine— have I not kept the vow? With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from his voiceless grave ; they have in...