The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volum 6David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 sider |
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... Certain Atrocities of Humor HOOKER , RICHARD The Law which Angels Do Work by Education as a Development of the Soul 1798-1845 2218 1788-1841 2224 C1553-1600 2229 LIVED PAGE HUGHES , JOHN 1677-1720 2234 The Wonderful Nature.
... Certain Atrocities of Humor HOOKER , RICHARD The Law which Angels Do Work by Education as a Development of the Soul 1798-1845 2218 1788-1841 2224 C1553-1600 2229 LIVED PAGE HUGHES , JOHN 1677-1720 2234 The Wonderful Nature.
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... souls in its living , life - giving ether . These are the thoughts by which we should whet and polish our swords for the warfare against evil , that the vapors of the earth may not rust them . But in a warfare against evil , under one ...
... souls in its living , life - giving ether . These are the thoughts by which we should whet and polish our swords for the warfare against evil , that the vapors of the earth may not rust them . But in a warfare against evil , under one ...
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... soul of the philosopher ; imagination glorifies the poet , and breathes a breath of spring through the young and genial ; but if we take into account the numberless glances and gleams whereby wit lightens our every - day life , I hardly ...
... soul of the philosopher ; imagination glorifies the poet , and breathes a breath of spring through the young and genial ; but if we take into account the numberless glances and gleams whereby wit lightens our every - day life , I hardly ...
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... soul into his printed page ; and some of the most famous men have certainly put the worst of theirs . Yet are all men desirable companions , much less teachers , fit to be listened to , able to give us advice , even of those who get ...
... soul into his printed page ; and some of the most famous men have certainly put the worst of theirs . Yet are all men desirable companions , much less teachers , fit to be listened to , able to give us advice , even of those who get ...
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... old Greek , as fresh and ever - stirring as the waves that tumble on the seashore , filling the soul with satisfying silent wonder at its restless unison ; whether in the quaint lines of Chapman , or the 2090 FREDERIC HARRISON.
... old Greek , as fresh and ever - stirring as the waves that tumble on the seashore , filling the soul with satisfying silent wonder at its restless unison ; whether in the quaint lines of Chapman , or the 2090 FREDERIC HARRISON.
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volum 6 David Josiah Brewer Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1900 |
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Side 2338 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people— a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Side 2273 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the...
Side 2334 - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
Side 2321 - ... and beauty of the grove ; graceful in its form, bright in its foliage, but with the worm preying at its heart. We find it suddenly withering, when it should be most fresh and luxuriant. We see it drooping its branches to the earth, and shedding leaf by leaf; until, wasted...
Side 2199 - It may seem strange to some man that has not well weighed these things that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience.
Side 2438 - In behint yon auld fail dyke I wot there lies a new-slain Knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ' His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,. His lady's...
Side 2402 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted out a thousand!" which they thought a malevolent speech.
Side 2402 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any). He was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and free nature : had an excellent fancy; brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Side 2126 - The husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy — a calm bliss of temperate affections — shall pass hand in hand through life, and lie down, not reluctantly, at its protracted close. To them, the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were, and are to be, by a lingering smile of memory and hope.
Side 2400 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert, that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.