LESSONS FROM MY MASTERS CARLYLE TENNYSON AND RUSKIN |
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... FREDERICK THE GREAT . - THE RISE OF THE HO- HENZOLLERNS 126 136 XV . - FREDERICK WILLIAM . - HIS " VERACITY . " - HIS TYRANNICAL CRUELTY . THE TOBACCO PARLIAMENT 143 • • XVI . - ACCESSION OF FREDERICK . - HE BEGINS WELL . - THE SEIZURE ...
... FREDERICK THE GREAT . - THE RISE OF THE HO- HENZOLLERNS 126 136 XV . - FREDERICK WILLIAM . - HIS " VERACITY . " - HIS TYRANNICAL CRUELTY . THE TOBACCO PARLIAMENT 143 • • XVI . - ACCESSION OF FREDERICK . - HE BEGINS WELL . - THE SEIZURE ...
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... Frederick , his language was , per- haps , more skilfully adapted to the production of particular effects more keen , terse , and smiting . But his florid style- his style with the young man's fondness for color and sound still ...
... Frederick , his language was , per- haps , more skilfully adapted to the production of particular effects more keen , terse , and smiting . But his florid style- his style with the young man's fondness for color and sound still ...
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... Frederick ; but as yet Carlyle's mind was thoroughly genial and sunny , full of pity and affection , finding more in the mis- ery of the wicked and the foolish to weep for than in their crimes or errors to curse at . The humor of the ...
... Frederick ; but as yet Carlyle's mind was thoroughly genial and sunny , full of pity and affection , finding more in the mis- ery of the wicked and the foolish to weep for than in their crimes or errors to curse at . The humor of the ...
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... Frederick of Prussia , he makes genius cover , or at least palli- ate , a multitude of sins . Throughout all his later works , Mr. Carlyle has inveighed against the great body of his country- men , and in this he has been accurately ...
... Frederick of Prussia , he makes genius cover , or at least palli- ate , a multitude of sins . Throughout all his later works , Mr. Carlyle has inveighed against the great body of his country- men , and in this he has been accurately ...
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... Frederick's or Napoleon's battles ! It seems to me to justify an ardor of en- thusiastic admiration , stronger than any words of mine can express ; and if we studiously and conscientiously divest our- selves of hero - worship , we may ...
... Frederick's or Napoleon's battles ! It seems to me to justify an ardor of en- thusiastic admiration , stronger than any words of mine can express ; and if we studiously and conscientiously divest our- selves of hero - worship , we may ...
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Page 287 - Ah ! who hath reft,' quoth he, ' my dearest pledge ? ' Last came, and last did go, The Pilot of the Galilean Lake ; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : ' How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies...
Page 319 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Page 294 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...
Page 281 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself...
Page 287 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Page 291 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Page 205 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...
Page 281 - Lo ! in the middle of the wood, ; The folded leaf is woo'd from out the bud With winds upon the branch, and there Grows green and broad, and takes no care, Sun-steep'd at noon, and in the moon Nightly dew-fed ; and turning yellow Falls, and floats adown the air.
Page 204 - Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Page 202 - Hall; Locksley Hall, that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts, And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.