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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... seems to have in itself some goodness , it thinks to be the supreme good . And because its knowledge at first is imperfect , owing to want of experience and want of instruction , good things that are but little appear great to it ; and ...
... seems to have in itself some goodness , it thinks to be the supreme good . And because its knowledge at first is imperfect , owing to want of experience and want of instruction , good things that are but little appear great to it ; and ...
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... seems to them most subtle argument . They start not from any true beginning , and truly they see nothing true in their imagina- tion . Of those men the Philosopher says that it is not right to trouble about them , or to have business ...
... seems to them most subtle argument . They start not from any true beginning , and truly they see nothing true in their imagina- tion . Of those men the Philosopher says that it is not right to trouble about them , or to have business ...
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... seems to have been at the school of the Minnesinger or the Troubadours . It is the same mièvrerie which seems almost to amuse itself with its love— more witty than passionate , a play of imagination more than a cry of the heart . They ...
... seems to have been at the school of the Minnesinger or the Troubadours . It is the same mièvrerie which seems almost to amuse itself with its love— more witty than passionate , a play of imagination more than a cry of the heart . They ...
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... seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature ; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together , and would often breed together . If the new variety were successful in its battle for ...
... seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature ; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together , and would often breed together . If the new variety were successful in its battle for ...
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... seem to be fully satisfied with the view that each species has been independently created . To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator , that the production and ex- tinction of the past ...
... seem to be fully satisfied with the view that each species has been independently created . To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator , that the production and ex- tinction of the past ...
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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.