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... once irresistible and loathsome , and spit- ting with hate and disgust when it is done . " He saw , in a word , that evil is infinitely repulsive and infinitely diabolical ; and by the coercive power of this knowledge , which came to ...
... once irresistible and loathsome , and spit- ting with hate and disgust when it is done . " He saw , in a word , that evil is infinitely repulsive and infinitely diabolical ; and by the coercive power of this knowledge , which came to ...
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... once covered by the hills , dangerous treasures ? " The treacherous ones promise , if we will but look , to remove every want , to quench all thirst , to bring satisfaction and suffi- ciency ; and this they do to every man in the ...
... once covered by the hills , dangerous treasures ? " The treacherous ones promise , if we will but look , to remove every want , to quench all thirst , to bring satisfaction and suffi- ciency ; and this they do to every man in the ...
Side 1251
... once , he had to flee for his life , and died an outlaw . There is no song in the world so sad and dis- mal as that which is sung to the bride by her friends . They come to congratulate - no , to console her ; like Jephthah's daugh- ter ...
... once , he had to flee for his life , and died an outlaw . There is no song in the world so sad and dis- mal as that which is sung to the bride by her friends . They come to congratulate - no , to console her ; like Jephthah's daugh- ter ...
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... once had been in trouble with justice , for he was rather a disor- derly sort of poet . Here is a ballad , written by the prisoner , which is quite a little masterpiece , " in a sensuous , elementary way , -half Baudelaire , half Song ...
... once had been in trouble with justice , for he was rather a disor- derly sort of poet . Here is a ballad , written by the prisoner , which is quite a little masterpiece , " in a sensuous , elementary way , -half Baudelaire , half Song ...
Side 1254
... once let me loose through the granary of the black locks . Last night , etc. I shall let you , my friend , into the garden of the white breast . But after that you will rebel from me and go scornfully away . And yet when I show my white ...
... once let me loose through the granary of the black locks . Last night , etc. I shall let you , my friend , into the garden of the white breast . But after that you will rebel from me and go scornfully away . And yet when I show my white ...
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Side 1615 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Side 1490 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Side 1398 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Side 1305 - Farewell to hope and to tranquil dreams, and to the blessed consolations of sleep. For more than three years and a half I am summoned away from these.
Side 1376 - And the star was shining. He grew to be a man whose hair was turning gray, and he was sitting in his chair by the fireside, heavy with grief, and with his face bedewed with tears when the star opened once again. Said his sister's angel to the leader, "Is my brother come?" And he said, "Nay, but his maiden daughter.
Side 1450 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Side 1490 - What Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining years; struggling with wants, oppressed with sickness, curbed in my genius, liable to be misconstrued in all I write...
Side 1615 - ... which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught...
Side 1599 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Side 1616 - The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle. He has a fine Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun.