Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections from the Best Authors, Also Lists of Contemporaneous Writers and Their Principal WorksIvison, Blakeman, Taylor,, 1872 - 640 pages |
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... happy ignorance , of the anxious affection that watches over all their ways , and of the hopes and fears that seek to pierce futurity for those who have neither fears nor cares nor anxieties for themselves . 21. The general theory must ...
... happy ignorance , of the anxious affection that watches over all their ways , and of the hopes and fears that seek to pierce futurity for those who have neither fears nor cares nor anxieties for themselves . 21. The general theory must ...
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... happy , for having sources of enjoyment in which we can not share ; and yet this is the true source of the ridicule which is so generally poured upon individuals who seek only to enjoy their peculiar tastes unmolested . For , if there ...
... happy , for having sources of enjoyment in which we can not share ; and yet this is the true source of the ridicule which is so generally poured upon individuals who seek only to enjoy their peculiar tastes unmolested . For , if there ...
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... falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue , " Excelsior ! " 9 In happy homes he saw the light Of household HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW . 59 Excelsior NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE:
... falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue , " Excelsior ! " 9 In happy homes he saw the light Of household HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW . 59 Excelsior NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE:
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... happy homes he saw the light Of household - fires gleam warm and bright ; Above , the spectral glaciers shone ; And from his lips escaped a groan , " Excelsior ! ' 66 Try not the pass ! " the old man said ; " Dark lowers the tempest ...
... happy homes he saw the light Of household - fires gleam warm and bright ; Above , the spectral glaciers shone ; And from his lips escaped a groan , " Excelsior ! ' 66 Try not the pass ! " the old man said ; " Dark lowers the tempest ...
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... Happy if their track be found Never on forbidden ground ; Happy if they sink not in Quick and treacherous sands JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER . 73.
... Happy if their track be found Never on forbidden ground ; Happy if they sink not in Quick and treacherous sands JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER . 73.
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Alba Longa Anglo-Saxon Antony Bardell beauty better birds blood Brutus C¿sar called Casca Cassius Cinna Clitus dark dead death deep doth earth English eternal eyes fancy father fear feel fire flowers genius give hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven History honor hope human ides of March JOHN Julius C¿sar kind king knew labor land language law of effect learned leave light living look lord Lucilius Mark Antony mind nature never night noble o'er objects Oliver Cromwell once palimpsest passion Pickwick pleasure poems poet poetry poor Rip Van Winkle rock Rome seemed smile soul sound speak spirit stand sweet taste tell thee thing thou thought tion Titinius truth virtue voice Volumnius WILLIAM wind wonder words
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