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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... perhaps he never attempted verse in his life , Darwin is indeed much more a poet than his grandfather Erasmus Darwin , au- thor of " The Loves of the Plants , " -from whom and Lord Monboddo he inherited his theory of " The Descent of ...
... perhaps he never attempted verse in his life , Darwin is indeed much more a poet than his grandfather Erasmus Darwin , au- thor of " The Loves of the Plants , " -from whom and Lord Monboddo he inherited his theory of " The Descent of ...
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... perhaps give you some notion . They have used , modified , and applied the material world in a manner analogous to man ; but with far superior powers they have gained superior results . Their atmosphere being much denser than yours and ...
... perhaps give you some notion . They have used , modified , and applied the material world in a manner analogous to man ; but with far superior powers they have gained superior results . Their atmosphere being much denser than yours and ...
Page 1286
... perhaps to write their names , or so , and that is the height of a woman's education . And I would but ask any who slight the sex for their understanding , What is a man ( a gentleman , I mean ) good for that is taught no more ? I need ...
... perhaps to write their names , or so , and that is the height of a woman's education . And I would but ask any who slight the sex for their understanding , What is a man ( a gentleman , I mean ) good for that is taught no more ? I need ...
Page 1287
... perhaps is a little peculiar to them ( at least in their youth ) will not bear the re- straint ; and I am satisfied nothing but the height of bigotry can keep up a nunnery . Women are extravagantly desirous of going to heaven , and will ...
... perhaps is a little peculiar to them ( at least in their youth ) will not bear the re- straint ; and I am satisfied nothing but the height of bigotry can keep up a nunnery . Women are extravagantly desirous of going to heaven , and will ...
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... perhaps , were written exactly at the period of time to which they relate ; but this can little affect their accuracy , as the impressions were such that they can never fade from my mind . Much has been omitted . I could not , without ...
... perhaps , were written exactly at the period of time to which they relate ; but this can little affect their accuracy , as the impressions were such that they can never fade from my mind . Much has been omitted . I could not , without ...
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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.