Self Culture, Volume 7, Issue 1Werner Company, 1898 |
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... Thought : About Books and Their Authors THE EDITOR . Youth's Department - Readings from Books : Freaks of Charles XII . of Sweden A Prussian Autocrat's Notions of Justice Some Sayings of Judge Falligant , of the Bench of Bygone Days ...
... Thought : About Books and Their Authors THE EDITOR . Youth's Department - Readings from Books : Freaks of Charles XII . of Sweden A Prussian Autocrat's Notions of Justice Some Sayings of Judge Falligant , of the Bench of Bygone Days ...
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... wench That hath all tongues , Italian , Spanish , French . But I dissuade him ; for if she hath any , She hath enough ; if two , she ' as two too many . " Punning epigrams are not very highly thought of , but 8 EPIGRAMS AND EPIGRAMMATISTS.
... wench That hath all tongues , Italian , Spanish , French . But I dissuade him ; for if she hath any , She hath enough ; if two , she ' as two too many . " Punning epigrams are not very highly thought of , but 8 EPIGRAMS AND EPIGRAMMATISTS.
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... thought a gentleman ? " At the time of the Rebellion against the Stuart dynasty , the Epigrammatists , hating the moroseness of the Puritans , were almost all strong Royalists . After the Restoration love - sonnets became the order of ...
... thought a gentleman ? " At the time of the Rebellion against the Stuart dynasty , the Epigrammatists , hating the moroseness of the Puritans , were almost all strong Royalists . After the Restoration love - sonnets became the order of ...
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... thought it better to choose the path of duty than to take the chances of suffer- ing death at divine hands even with Dido . He could love , so the poet says , but his passion was easily controlled . He at once ordered ships to be built ...
... thought it better to choose the path of duty than to take the chances of suffer- ing death at divine hands even with Dido . He could love , so the poet says , but his passion was easily controlled . He at once ordered ships to be built ...
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... thoughts turn often to hapless Dido as he sailed over the seas towards Italy and his wife to be , that shad- owy Lavinia ? If not , fate willed that he should not so lightly forget her . When , having landed ... thought AN ANCIENT TRAGEDY 15.
... thoughts turn often to hapless Dido as he sailed over the seas towards Italy and his wife to be , that shad- owy Lavinia ? If not , fate willed that he should not so lightly forget her . When , having landed ... thought AN ANCIENT TRAGEDY 15.
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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.