The Living Age, Volume 112E. Littell & Company, 1872 |
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... feels that the archæolo- ing is more touching , " says Count Gobi- gists and artists of Munich have laid their neau ... feeling and jewels which would pass for rich and that what they are about is something of handsome things to wear in ...
... feels that the archæolo- ing is more touching , " says Count Gobi- gists and artists of Munich have laid their neau ... feeling and jewels which would pass for rich and that what they are about is something of handsome things to wear in ...
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... feelings raised at Am- mergau . And now , where are we to look , in the subject - matter of the Persian pas- sion - play , for the source of all this emo- tion ? Count Gobineau suggests that it is to be found in the feeling of ...
... feelings raised at Am- mergau . And now , where are we to look , in the subject - matter of the Persian pas- sion - play , for the source of all this emo- tion ? Count Gobineau suggests that it is to be found in the feeling of ...
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... feeling religion . No one would say that also , and in all the Mahometan world , Ali the virtues of gentleness , mildness , and and his sons excite enthusiasm and affec- self - sacrifice were its virtues and the tion . Round the central ...
... feeling religion . No one would say that also , and in all the Mahometan world , Ali the virtues of gentleness , mildness , and and his sons excite enthusiasm and affec- self - sacrifice were its virtues and the tion . Round the central ...
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... feeling how little chance her homely face and prim ways gave her . The ques- tion that seemed uppermost in her mind , and which she felt compelled to ask every one who sat beside her , was , " Isn't Margot Dutton looking sweet and ...
... feeling how little chance her homely face and prim ways gave her . The ques- tion that seemed uppermost in her mind , and which she felt compelled to ask every one who sat beside her , was , " Isn't Margot Dutton looking sweet and ...
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... feeling for other mothers , and I thought what would ha ' been the feelings o ' hers — who , I've heerd from you , was a respectable , indus- trious woman to see her child enter that room afore all the gentry and the village people with ...
... feeling for other mothers , and I thought what would ha ' been the feelings o ' hers — who , I've heerd from you , was a respectable , indus- trious woman to see her child enter that room afore all the gentry and the village people with ...
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Page 71 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 141 - ... because he who has received this true education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive omissions or faults in art and nature, and with a true taste, while he praises and rejoices over, and receives into his soul the good, and becomes noble and good, he will justly blame and hate the bad, now in the days of his youth, even before he is able to know the reason of the thing ; and when reason comes he will recognize and salute her as a friend with whom his education has made him long familiar.
Page 286 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 75 - Their authors are of the same level, fit to represent them on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a beargarden : yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their mortification, that as their readers improve their stock of sense, (as they may by...
Page 50 - Free love — free field — we love but while we may: The woods are hush'd, their music is no more: The leaf is dead, the yearning past away: New leaf, new life — the days of frost are o'er: New life, new love to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love, — free field — we love but while we may.
Page 412 - He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Page 258 - Strange to think by the way, Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.
Page 70 - Add that whate'er of terror or of love Or beauty, Nature's daily face put on From transitory passion, unto this I was as sensitive as waters are To the sky's influence in a kindred mood Of passion ; was obedient as a lute That waits upon the touches of the wind.
Page 381 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand ; "Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain. They call us' to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 411 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.