At the Sign of the Hobby HorseHoughton Mifflin, 1910 - 252 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 12
... simple it would seem if we might straighten out our twentieth - century marital compli- cations by a mere moment at the bargain counter ! It may be imagined how the modernly neurotic Gwendolen Harleth startled so simple an atmosphere as ...
... simple it would seem if we might straighten out our twentieth - century marital compli- cations by a mere moment at the bargain counter ! It may be imagined how the modernly neurotic Gwendolen Harleth startled so simple an atmosphere as ...
الصفحة 38
... simple life in a House Beautiful , — built after the inexpensive plans in the back of the " Lady's Home Journal , " and writes another book on gardening . The naughty female is entirely restored to respectability by the efficient ...
... simple life in a House Beautiful , — built after the inexpensive plans in the back of the " Lady's Home Journal , " and writes another book on gardening . The naughty female is entirely restored to respectability by the efficient ...
الصفحة 79
... simple , and so mirror - like in accuracy were those little volumes . Alas ! tempted by the publisher , the author was unwise enough to use their popularity to exploit other series ; series no more like to the Dotty books than I to ...
... simple , and so mirror - like in accuracy were those little volumes . Alas ! tempted by the publisher , the author was unwise enough to use their popularity to exploit other series ; series no more like to the Dotty books than I to ...
الصفحة 101
... simple . This is the sort of pillule of poetical bread our soul's need of song is fed upon : " The road winds over the hill Where sets a rose - white star ; O tired heart , be still : The end is far . " Down in the darkening west The ...
... simple . This is the sort of pillule of poetical bread our soul's need of song is fed upon : " The road winds over the hill Where sets a rose - white star ; O tired heart , be still : The end is far . " Down in the darkening west The ...
الصفحة 111
... simple country - side seemed ever after but dull and narrow ; and Darwin , who had been living so long with wide prospects for his mind's eye , discovered that the narrow paysage of the older poets had lost the power to interest and ...
... simple country - side seemed ever after but dull and narrow ; and Darwin , who had been living so long with wide prospects for his mind's eye , discovered that the narrow paysage of the older poets had lost the power to interest and ...
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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?