Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, 4. köideFerd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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Page 1257
... effect of those simple plaints , which derive most of their power from the accent and the mere physical dis- play of emotion . For a father : Alas ! alas ! my father ! I shall see you no more on the road . The world has become desolate ...
... effect of those simple plaints , which derive most of their power from the accent and the mere physical dis- play of emotion . For a father : Alas ! alas ! my father ! I shall see you no more on the road . The world has become desolate ...
Page 1264
... the fittest . To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds , I shall have to recur ; but it may here be remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes , 1264 CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN.
... the fittest . To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds , I shall have to recur ; but it may here be remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes , 1264 CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN.
Page 1279
... effects of pain or moral evil in assisting in the great plan of the exaltation of spiritual natures ; but I will not destroy the bright- ness of your present idea of the scheme of the universe by de- grading pictures of the effects of ...
... effects of pain or moral evil in assisting in the great plan of the exaltation of spiritual natures ; but I will not destroy the bright- ness of your present idea of the scheme of the universe by de- grading pictures of the effects of ...
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... effect of cowardice in the highest extreme . Others break the bounds of laws to satisfy that general law of nature , and turn open thieves , housebreakers , highwaymen , clippers , coiners , etc. , till they run the 1284 DANIEL DEFOE On ...
... effect of cowardice in the highest extreme . Others break the bounds of laws to satisfy that general law of nature , and turn open thieves , housebreakers , highwaymen , clippers , coiners , etc. , till they run the 1284 DANIEL DEFOE On ...
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... effect of the justice of Providence in dividing particular excellences among all his creatures , " Share and share alike , as it were , " that all might for something or other be ac- ceptable to one another , else some would be despised ...
... effect of the justice of Providence in dividing particular excellences among all his creatures , " Share and share alike , as it were , " that all might for something or other be ac- ceptable to one another , else some would be despised ...
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Page 1455 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 1491 - 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.
Page 1402 - 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...
Page 1307 - OPIUM As when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.
Page 1619 - 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.
Page 1452 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcote, near Stratford.
Page 1452 - 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.
Page 1493 - 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...
Page 1603 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Page 1620 - 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.