Essays of the Past and PresentWarner Taylor Harper & Brothers, 1927 - 612 من الصفحات |
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... side of convincing gratitude . In the case of a book like this , which at best is but little brother to the rich , gratitude should be plural and not singular . John Bartlett most happily prefaced his Familiar Quotations with this senti ...
... side of convincing gratitude . In the case of a book like this , which at best is but little brother to the rich , gratitude should be plural and not singular . John Bartlett most happily prefaced his Familiar Quotations with this senti ...
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... side of the millen- nium . The teaching profession is but a one - way Jacob's ladder ; the climbing is not down from the heaven of high places ; the first rung is planted in a Freshman English class . And it is more difficult for a ...
... side of the millen- nium . The teaching profession is but a one - way Jacob's ladder ; the climbing is not down from the heaven of high places ; the first rung is planted in a Freshman English class . And it is more difficult for a ...
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... side that I should like to say a few words . Poetry , of course , is the limitless repository for " words that laugh and cry . " It bears the title ; prose is the younger son . But one takes exception to the ruling of a well INTRODUCTION.
... side that I should like to say a few words . Poetry , of course , is the limitless repository for " words that laugh and cry . " It bears the title ; prose is the younger son . But one takes exception to the ruling of a well INTRODUCTION.
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... side , heat and vivacity in age is an excellent composition for business . Young men are fitter to invent than to judge ; fitter for execution than for counsel ; and fitter for new projects than for settled business . For the experience ...
... side , heat and vivacity in age is an excellent composition for business . Young men are fitter to invent than to judge ; fitter for execution than for counsel ; and fitter for new projects than for settled business . For the experience ...
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... side of History , whether French history or English , as heraldic sup- porters : the angel of research on the left hand , that must read . millions of dusty parchments , and of pages blotted with lies ; the angel of meditation on the ...
... side of History , whether French history or English , as heraldic sup- porters : the angel of research on the left hand , that must read . millions of dusty parchments , and of pages blotted with lies ; the angel of meditation on the ...
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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.