Self Culture, Volume 7, Issue 1Werner Company, 1898 |
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... , Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers ? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love , But Why did you kick me downstairs ? " - The following capital repartee has often been quoted , though 10 EPIGRAMS AND EPIGRAMMATISTS.
... , Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers ? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love , But Why did you kick me downstairs ? " - The following capital repartee has often been quoted , though 10 EPIGRAMS AND EPIGRAMMATISTS.
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... perhaps the great- est master of the English epigram . Both French and German literature have their examples , especially of a sharp and biting character , Rousseau and Voltaire in the one literature and Goethe and Schiller in the other ...
... perhaps the great- est master of the English epigram . Both French and German literature have their examples , especially of a sharp and biting character , Rousseau and Voltaire in the one literature and Goethe and Schiller in the other ...
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... perhaps , coursed some Phoenician blood , felt his relationship to the un- happy queen , and resenting the story of her having been jilted by the Trojan , presented a far nobler picture of her than did the Roman poet . This story of Di ...
... perhaps , coursed some Phoenician blood , felt his relationship to the un- happy queen , and resenting the story of her having been jilted by the Trojan , presented a far nobler picture of her than did the Roman poet . This story of Di ...
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... perhaps , by the thought that a promised bride awaited him in Latium as fair as this one , and with the added charm of being yet unwon . For a moment she eyed him silently , then spoke : Hard - hearted ! coward ! I saved him , shared my ...
... perhaps , by the thought that a promised bride awaited him in Latium as fair as this one , and with the added charm of being yet unwon . For a moment she eyed him silently , then spoke : Hard - hearted ! coward ! I saved him , shared my ...
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... perhaps been cured of love , kept her face averted , and turning proudly away without a word , walked from him to the myrtle groves , where Sichæus " returned her love for love . " This time , the wound was in Æneas's breast , and he ...
... perhaps been cured of love , kept her face averted , and turning proudly away without a word , walked from him to the myrtle groves , where Sichæus " returned her love for love . " This time , the wound was in Æneas's breast , and he ...
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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.