The Living Age, Volume 112E. Littell & Company, 1872 |
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... interest in religion , impeachable sort , Protestant Dissenting of which I have just spoken , conducted us . ministers , were there , too , and showing To this interest I propose to appeal in favour and sympathy ; and this , to any one ...
... interest in religion , impeachable sort , Protestant Dissenting of which I have just spoken , conducted us . ministers , were there , too , and showing To this interest I propose to appeal in favour and sympathy ; and this , to any one ...
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... interest- who carry , some of them tambourines and ing and magnificent tableaux , cymbals , others iron chains and long nee- of the Caliph , for example , — which occur dles . One of their race is said to have in the course of the piece ...
... interest- who carry , some of them tambourines and ing and magnificent tableaux , cymbals , others iron chains and long nee- of the Caliph , for example , — which occur dles . One of their race is said to have in the course of the piece ...
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... interest by dresses to be acting ; they are full of the feeling and jewels which would pass for rich and that what they are about is something of handsome things to wear in modern Per- deep seriousness and importance ; and sian life ...
... interest by dresses to be acting ; they are full of the feeling and jewels which would pass for rich and that what they are about is something of handsome things to wear in modern Per- deep seriousness and importance ; and sian life ...
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... interesting . What dren , who keep calling for the Imam Hus - this is , I cannot do more than just indi- But I confess that if the interest of the cate ; but indicate it I will , in conclusion A PERSIAN PASSION PLAY . 13.
... interesting . What dren , who keep calling for the Imam Hus - this is , I cannot do more than just indi- But I confess that if the interest of the cate ; but indicate it I will , in conclusion A PERSIAN PASSION PLAY . 13.
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... interest in the places and persons is faint , who have them before us for a moment to - day , to see them again probably , no more for ever , - even for us , unless I err greatly , the power and pathos of this ideal are recognizable ...
... interest in the places and persons is faint , who have them before us for a moment to - day , to see them again probably , no more for ever , - even for us , unless I err greatly , the power and pathos of this ideal are recognizable ...
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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.