At the Sign of the Hobby HorseHoughton Mifflin, 1910 - 252 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 15
... light upon the complexities of the soul of that half of the race which men have declared to be capri- cious and incomprehensible ; which they confess in their famous toast to be the unsolvable conundrum : " Woman ! We can't make her out ...
... light upon the complexities of the soul of that half of the race which men have declared to be capri- cious and incomprehensible ; which they confess in their famous toast to be the unsolvable conundrum : " Woman ! We can't make her out ...
الصفحة 16
... light upon the woman question ; if we would study the moral aspect of the matter , and consider the soul of the sex from a really new angle of vision . And reading these women's books by the light of our old prejudices , we certainly ...
... light upon the woman question ; if we would study the moral aspect of the matter , and consider the soul of the sex from a really new angle of vision . And reading these women's books by the light of our old prejudices , we certainly ...
الصفحة 26
... light that he could have tied it up in a handkerchief and carried it on his staff across his shoulder . The real equipment for his career was that some susceptible nymph or goddess had cast a fa- vourable glance at his straight features ...
... light that he could have tied it up in a handkerchief and carried it on his staff across his shoulder . The real equipment for his career was that some susceptible nymph or goddess had cast a fa- vourable glance at his straight features ...
الصفحة 27
... light- hearted route to good fortune , blandly insouciant of the pangs of every one stupider than themselves ; as wantonly and cheerfully indifferent to the suffer- ings of the incompetent as either the classic or Chris- tian knights ...
... light- hearted route to good fortune , blandly insouciant of the pangs of every one stupider than themselves ; as wantonly and cheerfully indifferent to the suffer- ings of the incompetent as either the classic or Chris- tian knights ...
الصفحة 30
... light panting . " Here is a far cry indeed from Theseus , or Hop- o ' - my - Thumb . Hercules span for Omphale through fatuous amorousness ; but imagine Hercules setting about a readjustment of the inequalities of life by un- dertaking ...
... light panting . " Here is a far cry indeed from Theseus , or Hop- o ' - my - Thumb . Hercules span for Omphale through fatuous amorousness ; but imagine Hercules setting about a readjustment of the inequalities of life by un- dertaking ...
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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?