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... asked a little four - year - old critic , whose liter- ary judgments I accept as final , what stories she liked best . She answered , " I like Joseph and Aladdin and The Forty Thieves and The Prob- able Son . " tell why Aladdin is It ...
... asked a little four - year - old critic , whose liter- ary judgments I accept as final , what stories she liked best . She answered , " I like Joseph and Aladdin and The Forty Thieves and The Prob- able Son . " tell why Aladdin is It ...
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... asked to go a mile is glad to go twain . Then follows discourse on Lucan , Statius , Tasso , and the rest . " But I feel ( sir ) that I am falling into the dangerous Fit of a hot writer ; for instead of per- forming the promise which ...
... asked to go a mile is glad to go twain . Then follows discourse on Lucan , Statius , Tasso , and the rest . " But I feel ( sir ) that I am falling into the dangerous Fit of a hot writer ; for instead of per- forming the promise which ...
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... asked to give a reason why she should not receive all these things as poetry , the Muse is much em- barrassed . " It's all true , " she says . " Leather- dressing and boiler - making are undoubted real- ities , while Arthur and Lancelot ...
... asked to give a reason why she should not receive all these things as poetry , the Muse is much em- barrassed . " It's all true , " she says . " Leather- dressing and boiler - making are undoubted real- ities , while Arthur and Lancelot ...
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... airs it is not always disagreeable . We would not have Dogberry put off the watch to give place to some one who could pass the civil service examination . The humorist , when asked what he thinks of the 70 THE MISSION OF HUMOR.
... airs it is not always disagreeable . We would not have Dogberry put off the watch to give place to some one who could pass the civil service examination . The humorist , when asked what he thinks of the 70 THE MISSION OF HUMOR.
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Samuel McChord Crothers. The humorist , when asked what he thinks of the actual world , would turn upon his questioner as Touchstone turned upon Corin when he was asked how he liked the shepherd's life : - " Hast any philosophy in thee ...
Samuel McChord Crothers. The humorist , when asked what he thinks of the actual world , would turn upon his questioner as Touchstone turned upon Corin when he was asked how he liked the shepherd's life : - " Hast any philosophy in thee ...
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Page 50 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Page 198 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 299 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Page 45 - Yet each to keep and all, retrievements out of the night, The song, the wondrous chant of the gray-brown bird, And the tallying chant, the echo arous'd in my soul, With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe, With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird, Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep...
Page 38 - THE blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven ; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even ; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.
Page 190 - And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant...
Page 296 - Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world, grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 193 - And four great zones of sculpture, set betwixt With many a mystic symbol, gird the hall: And in the lowest beasts are slaying men, And in the second men are slaying beasts, And on the third are warriors, perfect men, And on the fourth are men with growing wings...
Page 297 - That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Page 127 - All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt : We called the chess-board white, - we call it black. 'Well...