The Living Age, Volume 118E. Littell & Company, 1873 |
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... head of antithesis are included large classes of significant movements that are intentionally employed for ex- pression , and have no other use . In these it is obvious that volition must have an active and essential share . They are ...
... head of antithesis are included large classes of significant movements that are intentionally employed for ex- pression , and have no other use . In these it is obvious that volition must have an active and essential share . They are ...
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... head . " You see , I have my despot , " she said to Captain Carthew , " and if Wednesday will really suit you , in spite of my perhaps seeming not to appreciate Miss Carthew's thoughtfulness , I shall be happy to accept your very kind ...
... head . " You see , I have my despot , " she said to Captain Carthew , " and if Wednesday will really suit you , in spite of my perhaps seeming not to appreciate Miss Carthew's thoughtfulness , I shall be happy to accept your very kind ...
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... head ; it often does when I stoop . " " Then why do you stoop ? I would have picked it up , " and then he looked at her for an answer to the question he had asked , " Oh , yes , the Despards . Well , Mr. Despard was an old friend of ...
... head ; it often does when I stoop . " " Then why do you stoop ? I would have picked it up , " and then he looked at her for an answer to the question he had asked , " Oh , yes , the Despards . Well , Mr. Despard was an old friend of ...
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... head - keeper , died . He was a short , burly man , and had an excellent appetite up to the very last . His men always But people who did not forgot Jeannette were always favoured ; Monsieur Botte would wink at any little flaw in their ...
... head - keeper , died . He was a short , burly man , and had an excellent appetite up to the very last . His men always But people who did not forgot Jeannette were always favoured ; Monsieur Botte would wink at any little flaw in their ...
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... head , attended his burial ; Monsieur Jannequin sang a high mass , and a week later a new head fores- ter filled his place . His successor was by no means so clever , but his ideas in other matters were certainly more correct . I fancy ...
... head , attended his burial ; Monsieur Jannequin sang a high mass , and a week later a new head fores- ter filled his place . His successor was by no means so clever , but his ideas in other matters were certainly more correct . I fancy ...
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Page 519 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 316 - My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.
Page 45 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 466 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 466 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Page 318 - Earth and moon were gone And suns and universes ceased to be And thou wert left alone Every Existence would exist in thee...
Page 96 - After these two noble fruits of friendship (peace in the affections and support of the judgment) followeth the last fruit, which is like the pomegranate, full of many kernels. I mean aid and bearing a part in all actions and occasions.
Page 316 - I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it.
Page 318 - There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou — THOU art Being and Breath, And what THOU art may never be destroyed.
Page 466 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.