Self Culture, Volume 7, Issue 1Werner Company, 1898 |
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... heart . Strong , though soft , a lover's chain ; Charmed with woe , and pleased with pain . Though the tender flame were dying , Love would light it at her eyes ; Or her tuneful voice applying , Through my ear my soul surprise . Deaf ...
... heart . Strong , though soft , a lover's chain ; Charmed with woe , and pleased with pain . Though the tender flame were dying , Love would light it at her eyes ; Or her tuneful voice applying , Through my ear my soul surprise . Deaf ...
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... heart , they say , but I deny it ; He has a heart and gets his speeches by it . " The first and indispensable require- ment of an epigram , an authority has said , is not brevity , nor sharpness , but antithesis . Another authority for ...
... heart , they say , but I deny it ; He has a heart and gets his speeches by it . " The first and indispensable require- ment of an epigram , an authority has said , is not brevity , nor sharpness , but antithesis . Another authority for ...
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... heart of stone , she loves him , and would still follow him . It is an elaboration of Virgil's lines , but an ex- cellent one , and has been done into ad- mirable English verse by Prof. Goldwin Smith , in his translations from the Latin ...
... heart of stone , she loves him , and would still follow him . It is an elaboration of Virgil's lines , but an ex- cellent one , and has been done into ad- mirable English verse by Prof. Goldwin Smith , in his translations from the Latin ...
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... heart- stirring and eye - dazzling descriptions of war and tournaments , were among his chief favor- ites , " etc. The There we have the literature Scott de- voured , and for which he ransacked the shelves of the Advocate's Library . He ...
... heart- stirring and eye - dazzling descriptions of war and tournaments , were among his chief favor- ites , " etc. The There we have the literature Scott de- voured , and for which he ransacked the shelves of the Advocate's Library . He ...
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... Heart of Midlothian " is strictly founded on fact . A Galloway Jeanie Deans , having refused to risk her soul to save a sister by perjury , made the pil- grimage to London to solicit and obtain her pardon . Jeanie had her first home at ...
... Heart of Midlothian " is strictly founded on fact . A Galloway Jeanie Deans , having refused to risk her soul to save a sister by perjury , made the pil- grimage to London to solicit and obtain her pardon . Jeanie had her first home at ...
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Page 7 - SOME ask'd me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say : But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where ; Then spoke I to my girl, To part her lips, and show'd them there The quarelets of Pearl.
Page 73 - Every reader has his first book ; I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind.
Page 45 - I have gone the whole round of creation: I saw and I spoke. I, a work of God's hand for that purpose, received in my brain, And pronounced on, the rest of his handwork, — returned him again His creation's approval or censure; I spoke as I saw. I report, as a man may of God's work: all's love, yet all's law.
Page 9 - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
Page 10 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
Page 24 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Page 78 - With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Page 11 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Page 22 - As this old gentleman, who had been in all the German wars, found very few to listen to his tales of military feats, he formed a sort of alliance with me, and I used invariably to attend him for the pleasure of hearing those communications.