Cosmopolis: An International Monthly Review ..., Volume 5

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T. F. Unwin, 1897

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Page 37 - A FAREWELL. My fairest child, I have no song to give you ; No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray : Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 348 - Change ; accordingly, there is not a lady at court, nor a banker in Lombard street, who is not verily persuaded, that captain Steele is the greatest scholar and best casuist of any man in England.
Page 59 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 432 - J'y poserai de ces mains que voilà, ton épitaphe en marbre plus pur que les statues de nos gloires d'un jour. La postérité répétera nos noms comme ceux de ces amants immortels qui n'en ont plus qu'un à eux deux, comme Roméo et Juliette, comme Héloïse et Abélard.
Page 338 - Nor can it be but a touch of arrogant ignorance to hold this or that nation barbarous, these or those times gross, considering how this manifold creature man, wheresoever he stand in the world, hath always some disposition of worth, entertains the order of society, affects that which is most in use, and is eminent in some one thing or other that fits his humour and the times.
Page 343 - There is nothing new in astronomy to vie with the ancients, unless it be the Copernican system; nor in physic, unless Harvey's circulation of the blood. But whether either of these be modern discoveries, or derived from old fountains...
Page 556 - Grand délice que celui de noyer son regard dans l'immensité du ciel et de la mer! Solitude, silence, incomparable chasteté de l'azur! une petite voile frissonnante à l'horizon, et qui, par sa petitesse et son isolement, imite mon irrémédiable existence, mélodie monotone de la houle, toutes ces choses pensent par moi, ou je pense par elles (car dans la grandeur de la rêverie, le moi se perd vite!); elles pensent, dis-je, mais musicalement et pittoresquement, sans arguties, sans syllogismes,...
Page 165 - Ce qu'il ya d'affreux , c'est que le monstre a un parti en France; et pour comble de calamité et d'horreur, c'est moi qui autrefois parlai le premier de ce Shakespear; c'est moi qui le premier montrai aux Français quelques perles que j'avais trouvées dans son énorme fumier.
Page 337 - Rome, the rest of the world hath euer had them in the same degree of nature, though not of state.
Page 25 - God, yet they defer from day to day, from week to week, from month to month, from year to year, the practice of these duties.

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