The Sewanee Review, Volume 24University of the South, 1916 |
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... spirit shows him to be a hot rebel against the restraints and privileges upon which aristocracy was based . Yet aristocrat he himself was with peculiar intensity . He was proud of his extraction from a family noble since the days of the ...
... spirit shows him to be a hot rebel against the restraints and privileges upon which aristocracy was based . Yet aristocrat he himself was with peculiar intensity . He was proud of his extraction from a family noble since the days of the ...
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... spirits , and so clean a man as Scott could still revere the king in so foul a man as George . The British conscience did not really make up its mind about its " first gentleman " until he was fifty - Byron and the British Conscience 7.
... spirits , and so clean a man as Scott could still revere the king in so foul a man as George . The British conscience did not really make up its mind about its " first gentleman " until he was fifty - Byron and the British Conscience 7.
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... spirits he resented pain which he could not understand . Or to shift the figure altogether , Byron was like a child ... spirit had a voice , and perhaps the cry that Byron raised had some effect upon the force that upset him . At any ...
... spirits he resented pain which he could not understand . Or to shift the figure altogether , Byron was like a child ... spirit had a voice , and perhaps the cry that Byron raised had some effect upon the force that upset him . At any ...
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... spirit in the educational legislation of that country is everywhere pronounced . The dominating influences were here , as in England , especially aristocratic , and there was a noticeable tardiness and indifference to so - called ...
... spirit in the educational legislation of that country is everywhere pronounced . The dominating influences were here , as in England , especially aristocratic , and there was a noticeable tardiness and indifference to so - called ...
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... spirit - broken Brimson down a lane , cursing him in every breath and flogging him viciously . For once a moral is not obtrusive , and a homely mountaineer unctiously delivers it : " Hit hev tuck erbout er million years to edicate the ...
... spirit - broken Brimson down a lane , cursing him in every breath and flogging him viciously . For once a moral is not obtrusive , and a homely mountaineer unctiously delivers it : " Hit hev tuck erbout er million years to edicate the ...
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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.