Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 150Harper's Magazine Company, 1925 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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Page 462 - Th' unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate And courage never to submit or yield, And what is else not to be overcome; That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me. It is Satan who displays courage, resource, and inventiveness; who
Page 308 - his genius, our Shakespeareolators would miss all that they admire in him." His statesmanship generally remains about the level of after-dinner political oratory: The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
Page 307 - witli unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly. The suspicion that the "worthy master
Page 310 - long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd I cried to dream again.
Page 307 - sweet accents of Edgar Guest are discernible in If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wip'da tear, And know what 'tis to pity, and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be: It is no wonder that Bernard Shaw has said
Page 731 - the lines I could not tame my nature down; for he Must serve who fain would sway—and soothe —and sue— And watch all time—and pry into all place— And
Page 554 - it was impossible to see anything but the Queen. Hebes and Floras, and Helens and Graces are street-walkers to her." But that had been at Versailles. Her true life, like Louis
Page 56 - father failing and breaking down. Cancels long interval. Begins to talk about the turnkey who first called him "the father of the Marshalsea," as if he were still living. "Tell Bob I want to speak to him. See if he is on the lock,