Essays of the Past and PresentWarner Taylor Harper & Brothers, 1927 - 612 من الصفحات |
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... becomes youth well , but not age : so Tully saith of Hortensius : Idem manebat , neque idem decebat.2 The third is of such as take too high a strain at the first ; and are magnanimous more than tract of years can uphold ; as was Scipio ...
... becomes youth well , but not age : so Tully saith of Hortensius : Idem manebat , neque idem decebat.2 The third is of such as take too high a strain at the first ; and are magnanimous more than tract of years can uphold ; as was Scipio ...
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... become instantly as prosperous as ever ' . They think they are talking to innocents , who will believe that , by sowing of dragons ' teeth , men may come up ready grown and ready armed . They who will give themselves the trouble of ...
... become instantly as prosperous as ever ' . They think they are talking to innocents , who will believe that , by sowing of dragons ' teeth , men may come up ready grown and ready armed . They who will give themselves the trouble of ...
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... becoming every hour more indispensable to the inevitably po- litical man of this day — without perilous openings for error . If I , for instance , on the part of England , should happen to turn my labours into that channel , and ( on ...
... becoming every hour more indispensable to the inevitably po- litical man of this day — without perilous openings for error . If I , for instance , on the part of England , should happen to turn my labours into that channel , and ( on ...
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... become a province of England , and for the ruin of both , if such a yoke could be maintained . Dreadful pecuniary exhaustion caused the English energy to droop ; and that critical opening La Pucelle used with a cor- responding felicity ...
... become a province of England , and for the ruin of both , if such a yoke could be maintained . Dreadful pecuniary exhaustion caused the English energy to droop ; and that critical opening La Pucelle used with a cor- responding felicity ...
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... become more difficult for herself to pronounce authentically what were errors . The noble girl had achieved , as by a rapture of motion , the capital end of clearing out a free space around her sovereign , giving him the power to move ...
... become more difficult for herself to pronounce authentically what were errors . The noble girl had achieved , as by a rapture of motion , the capital end of clearing out a free space around her sovereign , giving him the power to move ...
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admire AGNES REPPLIER American artist beauty Benares bird Bishop of Beauvais Charlotte Corday dark dead death Domrémy earth English essays eyes face fancy fear feel France FRANCIS BACON gentleman give hand Hastings hear heart heaven hour human Hyder Ali India kind permission kingdom of Mysore lady LAFCADIO HEARN less light literary literature living look man's Manhattan Transfer matter mean Médoc mind moral nation nature never Nevermore night once pass peace perhaps person phrase pleasure poem poet poetry prose race ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON seems seen sense side smile soul sound speak speech spirit story style talk things thou thought thousand tion true truth turn verse virtue voice whole WILLIAM HAZLITT wind woman words writing young
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الصفحة 343 - But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
الصفحة 342 - THE gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i
الصفحة 267 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries -a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them ; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, Had I not filed W my mind, which thus itself subdued.
الصفحة 7 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.