Essays of the Past and PresentWarner Taylor Harper & Brothers, 1927 - 612 من الصفحات |
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... expression ; but only through the perspective of some later time can the result be pronounced articulate or merely stammering . And where contemporary opinions waver , like flame in moving air , the older instructor is a safer guide ...
... expression ; but only through the perspective of some later time can the result be pronounced articulate or merely stammering . And where contemporary opinions waver , like flame in moving air , the older instructor is a safer guide ...
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... expression of thought or emotion in words . The great Flaubert insists that it is an end in itself , and Alexander Smith seriously contends that " style , after all , rather than thought , is the immortal thing in literature . " Against ...
... expression of thought or emotion in words . The great Flaubert insists that it is an end in itself , and Alexander Smith seriously contends that " style , after all , rather than thought , is the immortal thing in literature . " Against ...
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... expression of self - esteem . Next came a wretched Dominican , that pressed her with an objection , which , if applied to the Bible , would tax every one of its miracles with unsoundness . The monk had the excuse of never having read ...
... expression of self - esteem . Next came a wretched Dominican , that pressed her with an objection , which , if applied to the Bible , would tax every one of its miracles with unsoundness . The monk had the excuse of never having read ...
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... expression of self - oblivion , did not utter the word recant either with her lips or in her heart . No ; she did not , though one should rise from the dead to swear it . Bishop of Beauvais ! thy victim died in fire upon a scaffold ...
... expression of self - oblivion , did not utter the word recant either with her lips or in her heart . No ; she did not , though one should rise from the dead to swear it . Bishop of Beauvais ! thy victim died in fire upon a scaffold ...
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... expression of sweet human character and life , than that immediately bordering on the sources of the Wandel , and in- cluding the low moors of Addington , and the villages of Bedding- ton and Carshalton , with all their pools and ...
... expression of sweet human character and life , than that immediately bordering on the sources of the Wandel , and in- cluding the low moors of Addington , and the villages of Bedding- ton and Carshalton , with all their pools and ...
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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.