The Sewanee Review, Volume 24University of the South, 1916 |
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... become ladies , and ladies become women . Before that , these social distinctions had become more and more marked , and ladies and gentlemen more and more careful as to whom they associated with . Such in a general way is the later ...
... become ladies , and ladies become women . Before that , these social distinctions had become more and more marked , and ladies and gentlemen more and more careful as to whom they associated with . Such in a general way is the later ...
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... become a pillar of church and state . This was the theory , and it was a credit to British character that it worked as well as it did . But the innate immorality of it was inescapable , and at the beginning of the last century the ...
... become a pillar of church and state . This was the theory , and it was a credit to British character that it worked as well as it did . But the innate immorality of it was inescapable , and at the beginning of the last century the ...
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... be reformed is fraught with pain and conflict . Ideals become applied to life as laws , rules , con- ventions ; thus applied they produce great , often beneficent " changes . The result is a different society ; 16 The Sewanee Review.
... be reformed is fraught with pain and conflict . Ideals become applied to life as laws , rules , con- ventions ; thus applied they produce great , often beneficent " changes . The result is a different society ; 16 The Sewanee Review.
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... become obvious to all Americans . It happens to be the writer's business to cultivate the delicate blossom of literary appreciation in the chill east wind of under- graduate indifference . He stepped from the sleeping - car that ...
... become obvious to all Americans . It happens to be the writer's business to cultivate the delicate blossom of literary appreciation in the chill east wind of under- graduate indifference . He stepped from the sleeping - car that ...
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... becomes more and more degraded and is mockingly sold at public auction . The loyal old negress buys him for thirteen dollars , and her loving service to Solomon — her service which is given with no expectation of reward - leads to his ...
... becomes more and more degraded and is mockingly sold at public auction . The loyal old negress buys him for thirteen dollars , and her loving service to Solomon — her service which is given with no expectation of reward - leads to his ...
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Page 484 - ALAS ! and did my Saviour bleed ? And did my Sovereign die ? Would he devote that sacred head For such a worm as I...
Page 102 - I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow...
Page 167 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy and lean and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropped short, half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him.
Page 456 - Hark! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Page 164 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more...
Page 253 - That when any harbor or other place in the American continents is so situated that the occupation thereof for naval or military purposes might threaten the communications or the safety of the United States, the Government of the United States could not see without grave concern the possession of such harbor or other place by any corporation or association which has such a relation to another Government, not American, as to give that Government practical power of control for naval or military purposes.
Page 90 - In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. The little green leaves would not let me alone in my sleep; Up-breathed from the marshes, a message of range and of sweep, Interwoven with waftures of wild sea-liberties, drifting, Came through the lapped leaves sifting, sifting, Came to the gates of sleep.
Page 456 - And feeling it shameful to feel aught but shame All through her heart, yet felt her cheek burned so, She must a little touch it; like one lame She walked away from Gauwaine...
Page 495 - It will be my endeavour to relate the history of the people as well as the history of the government, to trace the progress of useful and ornamental arts, to describe the rise of religious sects and the changes of literary taste, to portray the manners of successive generations, and not to pass by with neglect even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements.
Page 450 - But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.