A Treasury of English ProseLogan Pearsall Smith Houghton Mifflin, 1920 - 237 pages |
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... dream upon it : until it becomes stale But when will it do so ? Never When a man has arrived at a certain ripeness in intellect any one grand and spiritual passage serves him as a starting - post towards all the " two - and - thirty ...
... dream upon it : until it becomes stale But when will it do so ? Never When a man has arrived at a certain ripeness in intellect any one grand and spiritual passage serves him as a starting - post towards all the " two - and - thirty ...
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... dream . Then was our mouth filled with laughter , and our tongue with joy . Then said they among the heathen , The Lord hath done great things for them . Yea , the Lord hath done great things for us already , whereof we rejoice . Turn ...
... dream . Then was our mouth filled with laughter , and our tongue with joy . Then said they among the heathen , The Lord hath done great things for them . Yea , the Lord hath done great things for us already , whereof we rejoice . Turn ...
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... days and nights without sleep , even whole years alone in such contemplations and fantastical meditations , which are like unto dreams , and they will hardly 63 ROBERT BURTON, 1577-1640: The Copernican Hypothesis Melancholy.
... days and nights without sleep , even whole years alone in such contemplations and fantastical meditations , which are like unto dreams , and they will hardly 63 ROBERT BURTON, 1577-1640: The Copernican Hypothesis Melancholy.
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Logan Pearsall Smith. which are like unto dreams , and they will hardly be drawn from them or willingly interrupt ; so pleasant their vain conceits are , that they hinder their ordi- nary tasks and necessary business ; they cannot ad ...
Logan Pearsall Smith. which are like unto dreams , and they will hardly be drawn from them or willingly interrupt ; so pleasant their vain conceits are , that they hinder their ordi- nary tasks and necessary business ; they cannot ad ...
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... I do anticipate the vices of age , the world to me is but a dream or mock - show , and we all therein but pantaloons and antics , to my severer contemplations . Ibid . , 41 . THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES It is my temper , 69.
... I do anticipate the vices of age , the world to me is but a dream or mock - show , and we all therein but pantaloons and antics , to my severer contemplations . Ibid . , 41 . THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES It is my temper , 69.
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Abdera Anatomy of Melancholy angels Areopagitica art thou ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR beauty behold birds body Canst thou charity Church cloud cometh creatures curse darkness dead death delight Democritus divine divine shadow dream dust earth Eighty Sermons ELAGABALUS Elia Essays eternal everlasting evil eyes face of Janus fear Fifty Sermons fire flower garden Garden of Cyrus glory goeth grave happy hast thou hath heart heaven holy hope Ibid immortal Jerusalem king labour light live look Lord melancholy mercy mind Moab mocketh moon nature never night pass passion pleasant pleasure poet poetry reason Religio Medici religion RIVERS OF BABYLON saith sing sleep soul sound spirit stars streets sweet thee thereof thine things thou hast thought tion trees unto vanity voice waters Wilt thou wind wisdom worm