Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... leave . My Dorigen , Yonder , above , ' bout Ariadne's crown , My spirit shall hover for thee . Prithee , haste . Dor . - Stay , Sophocles , -with this tie up my sight ; Let not soft nature so transformed be , And lose her gentler sexed ...
... leave . My Dorigen , Yonder , above , ' bout Ariadne's crown , My spirit shall hover for thee . Prithee , haste . Dor . - Stay , Sophocles , -with this tie up my sight ; Let not soft nature so transformed be , And lose her gentler sexed ...
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... leave Deceitful knaves for the society Of gods and goodness . Thou thyself must part At last from all thy garlands , pleasures , triumphs , And prove thy fortitude what then ' t will do . Val . — But art not grieved or vexed to leave ...
... leave Deceitful knaves for the society Of gods and goodness . Thou thyself must part At last from all thy garlands , pleasures , triumphs , And prove thy fortitude what then ' t will do . Val . — But art not grieved or vexed to leave ...
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... leave a too close and lingering adherence to the actual , to facts , and study the sentiment as it appeared in hope , and not in history . For each man sees his own life defaced and disfigured , as the life of man is not to his im ...
... leave a too close and lingering adherence to the actual , to facts , and study the sentiment as it appeared in hope , and not in history . For each man sees his own life defaced and disfigured , as the life of man is not to his im ...
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... leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright , heaven - facing speakers . Ah , brother , hold fast to the man and awe the beast ; stop the ebb of thy soul , -ebbing down- ward into the forms into whose ...
... leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright , heaven - facing speakers . Ah , brother , hold fast to the man and awe the beast ; stop the ebb of thy soul , -ebbing down- ward into the forms into whose ...
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... Leave your theory , as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot , and flee . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds , adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines . With consistency a great soul has simply ...
... Leave your theory , as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot , and flee . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds , adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines . With consistency a great soul has simply ...
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