Essays of the Past and PresentWarner Taylor Harper & Brothers, 1927 - 612 من الصفحات |
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... gives back the same images from age to age . The fine old saying that customs and manners may veer to the opposite , but human nature never changes , holds true , and most of these writers concern themselves with the permanent in human ...
... gives back the same images from age to age . The fine old saying that customs and manners may veer to the opposite , but human nature never changes , holds true , and most of these writers concern themselves with the permanent in human ...
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... give in manners of their own . Power , grace , sensibility , humor , charm in its many forms , virility , — any epithet you will , may be exemplified by the works of those who presented their messages in prose . It is a fair question to ...
... give in manners of their own . Power , grace , sensibility , humor , charm in its many forms , virility , — any epithet you will , may be exemplified by the works of those who presented their messages in prose . It is a fair question to ...
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... give forth directions too m at large , except they be bounded in by experience . Crafty contemn studies , simple men admire them , and wise men them , for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wis without them , and above them ...
... give forth directions too m at large , except they be bounded in by experience . Crafty contemn studies , simple men admire them , and wise men them , for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wis without them , and above them ...
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... give forth directions too much at large , except they be bounded in by experience . Crafty men contemn studies , simple men admire them , and wise men use them , for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them , and ...
... give forth directions too much at large , except they be bounded in by experience . Crafty men contemn studies , simple men admire them , and wise men use them , for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them , and ...
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... give the occasion , and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance . It is good in discourse and speech of conversation to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments , tales with ...
... give the occasion , and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else ; for then a man leads the dance . It is good in discourse and speech of conversation to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments , tales with ...
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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.