At the Sign of the Hobby HorseHoughton Mifflin, 1910 - 252 من الصفحات |
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... - side ; passing those who are laboriously clearing new lands of science , or carefully tilling old fields of thought ; always experiencing a cheerful satisfaction at the reflexion that , unlike these , I am not tied [ vii ]
... - side ; passing those who are laboriously clearing new lands of science , or carefully tilling old fields of thought ; always experiencing a cheerful satisfaction at the reflexion that , unlike these , I am not tied [ vii ]
الصفحة 2
... thought ; why a seccant mo- rality forbade the flowers of beauty to blossom upon our transplanted tree . It was merely a question of dry subjects being handled by minds sufficiently vigorous to digest a large mass of incidents , to ...
... thought ; why a seccant mo- rality forbade the flowers of beauty to blossom upon our transplanted tree . It was merely a question of dry subjects being handled by minds sufficiently vigorous to digest a large mass of incidents , to ...
الصفحة 3
... 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 contemplate any real egregiousness of conduct . Can ...
... 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 contemplate any real egregiousness of conduct . Can ...
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... thoughts and actions of a well - spent day . " Fancy the pompous self - consciousness of a per- son who experienced ecstatic and exulting throbs because he had behaved himself for twenty - four hours ! Naturally , the heroines had to be ...
... thoughts and actions of a well - spent day . " Fancy the pompous self - consciousness of a per- son who experienced ecstatic and exulting throbs because he had behaved himself for twenty - four hours ! Naturally , the heroines had to be ...
الصفحة 9
... thought characteristic of the sex , but never met with in equal degree but in one lady . I soon found that my admiration of her fine qualities was likely to lead me into a gentler yet more irresistible passion . I found Miss Byron's ...
... thought characteristic of the sex , but never met with in equal degree but in one lady . I soon found that my admiration of her fine qualities was likely to lead me into a gentler yet more irresistible passion . I found Miss Byron's ...
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adventures Ahriman animals atavism attitude beauty Becky Sharp blind bourgeoisie century child colour courage creatures delicious earnest emotions endeavours existence experience expression fact fairy fashion feel fellow flowers George Eliot gifts Gwendolen Harleth hand heart Hedda Gabler hero hippogriff hope human ideals imagined impulse interest John Addington Symonds labour lady letters light literary literature little governess living look Marie Corelli mass matter Max Beerbohm mediæval ment mental mind modern heroine moral nature naughty ness never once one's ourselves pain parents passed passion person picture Pierce Egan pleasure poets race romances seems sense sentiency sentimental Shakespeare sort soul story strange suffering sweet taste Theocritus Theseus things thought thousand tion to-day truth turn verse Victor Hugo virtue whole wild woman women words write young
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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?