Library of the World's Best Literature: A-ZCharles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner R. S. Peale and J. A. Hill, 1897 |
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Page 7836
... character , leading a double life , -that of the patient , profound student and thinker , and that of the sensual worldling , —and perishing in the attempt to combine the two . He seems a combination of Bacon , Bruno , and Goethe , with ...
... character , leading a double life , -that of the patient , profound student and thinker , and that of the sensual worldling , —and perishing in the attempt to combine the two . He seems a combination of Bacon , Bruno , and Goethe , with ...
Page 7842
... character . From a dialogue between Skule and Jatgeir the skald , Ibsen himself has been well called " the poet of doubt , " a charac- terization that particularly fits him as the writer of the social dramas yet to come . < Ibsen ...
... character . From a dialogue between Skule and Jatgeir the skald , Ibsen himself has been well called " the poet of doubt , " a charac- terization that particularly fits him as the writer of the social dramas yet to come . < Ibsen ...
Page 7843
... character , for Peer Gynt is a man of dreams and of idle inaction ; he is cynically indifferent , selfish , sordid , superstitious , and withal mendacious . He realizes at the end that he has never been himself ; that he is in fact no ...
... character , for Peer Gynt is a man of dreams and of idle inaction ; he is cynically indifferent , selfish , sordid , superstitious , and withal mendacious . He realizes at the end that he has never been himself ; that he is in fact no ...
Page 7844
... character ; he shows how he has brought about his own personal aggrandizement at the expense of the community of which he has been a vaunted pillar , and stands at last for the first time on the firm ground of truth . " The spirits of ...
... character ; he shows how he has brought about his own personal aggrandizement at the expense of the community of which he has been a vaunted pillar , and stands at last for the first time on the firm ground of truth . " The spirits of ...
Page 7846
... characters are intended to be types of the race in modern social conditions . Such condi- tions , moreover , in salient points Ibsen as diagnostician finds to be inherently bad , and fearlessly he puts his finger upon the sore spots to ...
... characters are intended to be types of the race in modern social conditions . Such condi- tions , moreover , in salient points Ibsen as diagnostician finds to be inherently bad , and fearlessly he puts his finger upon the sore spots to ...
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ANGANTYR beauty Brahmana Braulio Buddhistic called century character charm Colonel cried dear death door drama Duryodhana earth Epic Eudemus eyes face father feel fire flowers followed give hand happy head heart heaven Helmer Hindu hymns Icelandic Ichabod Japanese Japanese literature Jatgeir Jean Ingelow Josephus Juvenal Kālidāsa King Kojiki Krishna lady laws light literary literature lived look lord Lotus lyric Mahābhārata Marques mind Monsieur Duvent mother nature never night Nora passed passion Peer Gynt period play poem poet poetry priest Pugwash Purānas Rādhā Rāmāyana Rig-Veda Saga Sanskrit scene seemed Sejanus skald Sleepy Hollow smile song soul spirit story style sweet tell thee things thou thought tion Tom Watts Translation turned Upanishads Vedic verses whole wife woman words writing Yajur-Veda young Yudhisthira
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Page 8360 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 8360 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 8349 - Shakespeare, must enjoy a part, For though the poet's matter Nature be, His art doth give the fashion, and that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 8293 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 8244 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states...
Page 8242 - ... interrupt our connection and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity, and when occasions have been given them by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have by their free election, re-established them in power. At this very time, too, they...
Page 8291 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Page 8012 - He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms, helped to make hay, mended the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid aside, too, all the dominant dignity and absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating.
Page 8359 - WEEP with me, all you that read This little story; And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature As Heaven and Nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
Page 8291 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?