The Living Age, 213. köideLiving Age Company, 1897 |
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... person , they must be comparatively simple . For this reason great crises in a nation's history are the most pictur- esque , for they simplify national ideas by forcing one or two great principles into temporary supremacy over all else ...
... person , they must be comparatively simple . For this reason great crises in a nation's history are the most pictur- esque , for they simplify national ideas by forcing one or two great principles into temporary supremacy over all else ...
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... person , who exclaimed , " where have you been , miss ? I have been looking for you everywhere to tell you that dinner is ready . " Clematis was so angry that she passed her without a word . Primrose , who saw the unwonted look of dis ...
... person , who exclaimed , " where have you been , miss ? I have been looking for you everywhere to tell you that dinner is ready . " Clematis was so angry that she passed her without a word . Primrose , who saw the unwonted look of dis ...
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... person , " replied Su , " is desirous of reaching the palace of the moon , ' and having long heard of the beauty and learning of your excel- lency's niece , Miss Pai , he has ventured to hope that your excellency would 1 I.e. , entering ...
... person , " replied Su , " is desirous of reaching the palace of the moon , ' and having long heard of the beauty and learning of your excel- lency's niece , Miss Pai , he has ventured to hope that your excellency would 1 I.e. , entering ...
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... person on the daïs , and King Stephen's image may be the image of King Stephen . But oh , what stiff and inadequate absurdities ! That fatuous puppet , called Mr. Gladstone , in the next room , is scarcely less convincing . And even ...
... person on the daïs , and King Stephen's image may be the image of King Stephen . But oh , what stiff and inadequate absurdities ! That fatuous puppet , called Mr. Gladstone , in the next room , is scarcely less convincing . And even ...
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... person , shook the nerve of the boy on the fore- castle ; perhaps his hands were cold and his faculties benumbed . He cast a line which seemed to promise well at first . Two coils of it unfolded themselves gradually against the grey sky ...
... person , shook the nerve of the boy on the fore- castle ; perhaps his hands were cold and his faculties benumbed . He cast a line which seemed to promise well at first . Two coils of it unfolded themselves gradually against the grey sky ...
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Page 291 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
Page 301 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too...
Page 299 - 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 533 - While fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ? Why do we then shun death with anxious strife ? If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life ? — JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE.
Page 299 - 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 302 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Page 277 - Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; and afterwards that which is spiritual.
Page 227 - Arise to thee; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms. And murmuring of innumerable bees.
Page 665 - At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, society was in a state of excitement.
Page 209 - 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.