At the Sign of the Hobby HorseHoughton Mifflin, 1910 - 252 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 12
... existence by the simple ex- pedient of putting a blue bow into her adorably curl- ing hair . If she found another woman stealing her husband's affections , she calmly checkmated the deadly wiles of the wicked rival by pinning on a blue ...
... existence by the simple ex- pedient of putting a blue bow into her adorably curl- ing hair . If she found another woman stealing her husband's affections , she calmly checkmated the deadly wiles of the wicked rival by pinning on a blue ...
الصفحة 32
... existence was not nearly so necessary to the earth as was that of the humble worm which he used for fish - bait . When one has been the petted heir of all visible creation , to be suddenly cast out of one's estate and made to work for ...
... existence was not nearly so necessary to the earth as was that of the humble worm which he used for fish - bait . When one has been the petted heir of all visible creation , to be suddenly cast out of one's estate and made to work for ...
الصفحة 39
... existence , we shall have to return if we are again to produce matter really worth while , and , perhaps , when the pendu- lum ceases to swing violently between the extremes of the arc , between the paralysis of pessimism and the ...
... existence , we shall have to return if we are again to produce matter really worth while , and , perhaps , when the pendu- lum ceases to swing violently between the extremes of the arc , between the paralysis of pessimism and the ...
الصفحة 43
... existence that is like a swimmer's relish of the bitter salt of the ocean . Kipling , I think , owes his popularity to such elements of this as he possesses , though his equipment for literature , by nature and observation , is so much ...
... existence that is like a swimmer's relish of the bitter salt of the ocean . Kipling , I think , owes his popularity to such elements of this as he possesses , though his equipment for literature , by nature and observation , is so much ...
الصفحة 44
... existence and the littleness of it . We need to be just interested , as Thackeray was , who did n't much care whether a man was good or bad , but was interested anyhow- -in French cooks and French viscounts ; in lodging - house slaveys ...
... existence and the littleness of it . We need to be just interested , as Thackeray was , who did n't much care whether a man was good or bad , but was interested anyhow- -in French cooks and French viscounts ; in lodging - house slaveys ...
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الصفحة 72 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can.
الصفحة 130 - The melancholy waters lie. No rays from the holy heaven come down On the long night-time of that town...
الصفحة 124 - Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. Yet America is a poem in our eyes ; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
الصفحة 129 - My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep, As it is lasting, so be deep!
الصفحة 225 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. Tt may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
الصفحة 21 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, ' To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
الصفحة 230 - A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in!
الصفحة 229 - Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane In some untrodden region of my mind, Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain, Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind...
الصفحة 122 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
الصفحة 87 - Here you come with your old music, and here's all the good it brings. What, they lived once thus at Venice where the merchants were the kings, Where St. Mark's is, where the Doges used to wed the sea with rings?