Self Culture, Volume 7, Issue 1Werner Company, 1898 |
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... minds , Athenian temples with Venetian blinds , And to perpetuate their own renown , Improve the Venus- with a satin gown ! " A man , after being turned out of a friend's house in a forcible manner , ex- postulates in this humorous vein ...
... minds , Athenian temples with Venetian blinds , And to perpetuate their own renown , Improve the Venus- with a satin gown ! " A man , after being turned out of a friend's house in a forcible manner , ex- postulates in this humorous vein ...
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... minds and irregular habits would always come to the front ; whereas the Wilfreds , Waverleys , Lovels , and other ... mind , and notwithstanding our idolatry , can be much duller than the youth of Waver- ley at Waverley Honour , nor ...
... minds and irregular habits would always come to the front ; whereas the Wilfreds , Waverleys , Lovels , and other ... mind , and notwithstanding our idolatry , can be much duller than the youth of Waver- ley at Waverley Honour , nor ...
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... mind with ma- terial for the brilliant series of historical romances . Nothing need be said of all he owed to the influence of Shakespeare and Spenser . The scenes of chivalrous warfare in play and deadly earnest in which he excelled ...
... mind with ma- terial for the brilliant series of historical romances . Nothing need be said of all he owed to the influence of Shakespeare and Spenser . The scenes of chivalrous warfare in play and deadly earnest in which he excelled ...
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... mind was profound and enduring ; it had been re- freshed by the letters of Train from Galloway , and with all his exaggerated admiration of Claverhouse , and his de- testation of what may be called the He- braic Calvinism of " the wild ...
... mind was profound and enduring ; it had been re- freshed by the letters of Train from Galloway , and with all his exaggerated admiration of Claverhouse , and his de- testation of what may be called the He- braic Calvinism of " the wild ...
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... mind when he de- scribed the introduction of Roland Graeme to the Regent Murray . " " I " Such was the personage before whom Roland Graeme now presented himself with a feeling of breathless awe . . . . He was , from education and nature ...
... mind when he de- scribed the introduction of Roland Graeme to the Regent Murray . " " I " Such was the personage before whom Roland Graeme now presented himself with a feeling of breathless awe . . . . He was , from education and nature ...
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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.