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... flicking a rail , and take off cleanly from crumbling banks , and we hardly pause in our in our stride until we arrive breathless and triumphant - at nowhere in particular . - E. B. CONTENTS I. THE MORALS OF THE MODERN HEROINE I " PREFACE.
... flicking a rail , and take off cleanly from crumbling banks , and we hardly pause in our in our stride until we arrive breathless and triumphant - at nowhere in particular . - E. B. CONTENTS I. THE MORALS OF THE MODERN HEROINE I " PREFACE.
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Elizabeth Bisland. CONTENTS I. THE MORALS OF THE MODERN HEROINE I " " II . THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST 26 III . COMMON OR GARDEN BOOKS 49 IV . THE CHILD IN LITERATURE 73 V. CONTEMPORARY POETS 97 VI . THE LITERATURE OF DEMOCRACY 115 ...
Elizabeth Bisland. CONTENTS I. THE MORALS OF THE MODERN HEROINE I " " II . THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST 26 III . COMMON OR GARDEN BOOKS 49 IV . THE CHILD IN LITERATURE 73 V. CONTEMPORARY POETS 97 VI . THE LITERATURE OF DEMOCRACY 115 ...
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... of who succeeded Michael Wigglesworth upon the completion of his cheerful epic concerning the Day of Doom . The difficulty was , the moment one opened a hungry mental [ 1 ] CALIFORNIA THE MORALS OF THE MODERN HEROINE I.
... of who succeeded Michael Wigglesworth upon the completion of his cheerful epic concerning the Day of Doom . The difficulty was , the moment one opened a hungry mental [ 1 ] CALIFORNIA THE MORALS OF THE MODERN HEROINE I.
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... morals , so to speak , — those refinements of thought and behaviour which form the morals of the non - criminal classes , of such folk as our- selves , who have daily to beg that we be not led into temptation , but who rarely even ...
... morals , so to speak , — those refinements of thought and behaviour which form the morals of the non - criminal classes , of such folk as our- selves , who have daily to beg that we be not led into temptation , but who rarely even ...
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... moral linea- ments , and in it to see formulated the semblance of our ideals , and the ideals of those who have created us and our aspirations . In our European civilization there has always been a deliciously contradictory attitude in ...
... moral linea- ments , and in it to see formulated the semblance of our ideals , and the ideals of those who have created us and our aspirations . In our European civilization there has always been a deliciously contradictory attitude in ...
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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?