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... less Latin . That was one of the reasons why I was overcome in the fight . Some men have a faculty for languages : I was not born to be learned in this direction , but I know the Fathers almost by heart nevertheless -- Hippolytus ...
... less Latin . That was one of the reasons why I was overcome in the fight . Some men have a faculty for languages : I was not born to be learned in this direction , but I know the Fathers almost by heart nevertheless -- Hippolytus ...
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... less suited to the Church than to the stage ? Shakespeare , Massinger , Ben Jonson were among my earliest books . My lightest reading was the " Arabian Nights " or such quaint Border ballads as my father found in the Cathedral Library ...
... less suited to the Church than to the stage ? Shakespeare , Massinger , Ben Jonson were among my earliest books . My lightest reading was the " Arabian Nights " or such quaint Border ballads as my father found in the Cathedral Library ...
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... less change hereabouts than in any part of London . Boat and barge and tiny yacht float gently by on the bosom of the tide . On Sundays the poor people come upon the Mall in their Sunday clothes to lean over the wall , and watch the ...
... less change hereabouts than in any part of London . Boat and barge and tiny yacht float gently by on the bosom of the tide . On Sundays the poor people come upon the Mall in their Sunday clothes to lean over the wall , and watch the ...
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... less a great crime . " " It would make a fine picture of the tragic kind , such as this which Mr. Himbleton is painting , " said Miss Oswald , sternly . " I never met with the story , " said my father , " but it reminds me of an equally ...
... less a great crime . " " It would make a fine picture of the tragic kind , such as this which Mr. Himbleton is painting , " said Miss Oswald , sternly . " I never met with the story , " said my father , " but it reminds me of an equally ...
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... less could I go into a detailed analysis of the structure of the several com- positions . I will therefore select those only for especial reference and illustration that received contemporaneous popularity , ratified by the sanction of ...
... less could I go into a detailed analysis of the structure of the several com- positions . I will therefore select those only for especial reference and illustration that received contemporaneous popularity , ratified by the sanction of ...
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Page 526 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Page 486 - O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Page 692 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 691 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he...
Page 162 - For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed; thou wert our conscript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battles wert so marred.
Page 685 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking. Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 800 - A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind, that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur'd Arthur, " Place me in the barge,
Page 456 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 328 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 284 - OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dear old town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.