At the Sign of the Hobby HorseHoughton Mifflin, 1910 - 252 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 2
... dealt with in this way , to find even the modern novel interesting . That the general impulse visible in this form of literary expression is toward the breaking down of the old accepted [ 2 ] AT THE SIGN OF THE HOBBY - HORSE.
... dealt with in this way , to find even the modern novel interesting . That the general impulse visible in this form of literary expression is toward the breaking down of the old accepted [ 2 ] AT THE SIGN OF THE HOBBY - HORSE.
الصفحة 3
Elizabeth Bisland. expression is toward the breaking down of the old accepted laws of behaviour is a clamant fact . Why this should be so it might be amusing , if not in- structive , to discover . Fundamental morals , of course , alter ...
Elizabeth Bisland. expression is toward the breaking down of the old accepted laws of behaviour is a clamant fact . Why this should be so it might be amusing , if not in- structive , to discover . Fundamental morals , of course , alter ...
الصفحة 4
... expression in literature ; that mirror of the human mind in which we see reflected not only our own faces , but the faces of all our ancestors . In which we behold the like- nesses of those shadowy entities which stretch end- lessly ...
... expression in literature ; that mirror of the human mind in which we see reflected not only our own faces , but the faces of all our ancestors . In which we behold the like- nesses of those shadowy entities which stretch end- lessly ...
الصفحة 24
... expression of her own highest con- sciousness of aspiration for herself - will be very unlike the contrasted goddess and rogue ; a very different person , too , from the fantastic , unclassifi- able individual offered us now . She will ...
... expression of her own highest con- sciousness of aspiration for herself - will be very unlike the contrasted goddess and rogue ; a very different person , too , from the fantastic , unclassifi- able individual offered us now . She will ...
الصفحة 53
... all forms of life , we have only to turn over the pages of an Hellenic mythology . The Greeks , of course , gave it a different form of expression . Where we use facts , and diagrams , and scientific terms [ 53 ] COMMON OR GARDEN BOOKS.
... all forms of life , we have only to turn over the pages of an Hellenic mythology . The Greeks , of course , gave it a different form of expression . Where we use facts , and diagrams , and scientific terms [ 53 ] COMMON OR GARDEN BOOKS.
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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?