The Living Age, 213. köideE. Littell & Company, 1897 |
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... round his neck . If I am caught , it will not be for some time , and then I can get out of it somehow - an alibi or something . I'll get a brief , at all events . By that time the scent will be lost , and it will be all right . Come ...
... round his neck . If I am caught , it will not be for some time , and then I can get out of it somehow - an alibi or something . I'll get a brief , at all events . By that time the scent will be lost , and it will be all right . Come ...
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... round a bend , scaring flocks of screaming parrots by the roar of the mail - gun , the Warri station came in sight . This , as perhaps the finest government post on the Oil Rivers save Calabar , seems to merit a description . Beyond a ...
... round a bend , scaring flocks of screaming parrots by the roar of the mail - gun , the Warri station came in sight . This , as perhaps the finest government post on the Oil Rivers save Calabar , seems to merit a description . Beyond a ...
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... round an ordinary career , but was engen- dered by the profound conviction that with the fall of Wolsey England had entered upon a new course in its na- tional life - a course the end and goal of which no man could foresee . Wol- sey ...
... round an ordinary career , but was engen- dered by the profound conviction that with the fall of Wolsey England had entered upon a new course in its na- tional life - a course the end and goal of which no man could foresee . Wol- sey ...
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... round individ- uals , but round the growth of our con- ceptions of public duty . To trace the growth of that body of ideas which make up England's contribution to the world's progress , to estimate their de- fects , and to consider how ...
... round individ- uals , but round the growth of our con- ceptions of public duty . To trace the growth of that body of ideas which make up England's contribution to the world's progress , to estimate their de- fects , and to consider how ...
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... round at the pagan statues that were there , had fancied himself in the presence of the immortal gods , and had abased himself before them . Could any man , I wondered , entering Madame Tussaud's initial chamber , fancy that the old ...
... round at the pagan statues that were there , had fancied himself in the presence of the immortal gods , and had abased himself before them . Could any man , I wondered , entering Madame Tussaud's initial chamber , fancy that the old ...
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Page 283 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
Page 293 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too...
Page 205 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 291 - To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
Page 291 - IN a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity: The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them; Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime.
Page 269 - Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; and afterwards that which is spiritual.
Page 542 - Corydon would kiss her then,. She said, maids must kiss no men, Till they did for good and all ; Then she made the shepherd- call • All the heavens to witness truth Never loved a truer youth. Thus with many a pretty oath, Yea and nay, and faith and troth, Such as...
Page 205 - Cressid's name the very crown of falsehood, If ever she leave Troilus ! Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it.
Page 227 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Page 93 - Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.