The Sewanee Review, Volume 24University of the South, 1916 |
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... says that she is able " to collect the powers of a mind naturally strong and courageous , and which rallied itself at this terrible juncture , " nevertheless the only expedient she can think of is the obvious one of trying to climb up ...
... says that she is able " to collect the powers of a mind naturally strong and courageous , and which rallied itself at this terrible juncture , " nevertheless the only expedient she can think of is the obvious one of trying to climb up ...
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... says Taine . Multiply by Byron's dynamic force the disgust which those of us who are young and healthy feel toward one of Scott's heroines , and we shall under- stand what happened in this unfortunate household . Byron did nothing to ...
... says Taine . Multiply by Byron's dynamic force the disgust which those of us who are young and healthy feel toward one of Scott's heroines , and we shall under- stand what happened in this unfortunate household . Byron did nothing to ...
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... say wild things which would horrify and shock that prim provincial prudery . He resented the checks which she implied upon his tremendous self , and therefore he merely behaved more like that self than usual . ― This is the explanation ...
... say wild things which would horrify and shock that prim provincial prudery . He resented the checks which she implied upon his tremendous self , and therefore he merely behaved more like that self than usual . ― This is the explanation ...
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... says , " ' tis that I may not weep . " So do we tell our little boy , as he picks himself up from the dirt , to be a man and grin and bear it . And so does the child too learn to choke his tears , mocking pain with laughter . Mr. Paul ...
... says , " ' tis that I may not weep . " So do we tell our little boy , as he picks himself up from the dirt , to be a man and grin and bear it . And so does the child too learn to choke his tears , mocking pain with laughter . Mr. Paul ...
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... says the divine Aphra , " was pretty tall , but of a Shape the most exact that can be fancy'd : The most famous Statuary could not form the Figure of a Man more admirably turn'd from Head to Foot . His Face was . . . . a perfect Ebony ...
... says the divine Aphra , " was pretty tall , but of a Shape the most exact that can be fancy'd : The most famous Statuary could not form the Figure of a Man more admirably turn'd from Head to Foot . His Face was . . . . a perfect Ebony ...
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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.