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... titled An Essay to prove that an author will write better for having some knowledge of the subject on which he treats . The discussion is altogether irrelevant ; that is what the Gentle Reader likes . THE GENTLE READER.
... titled An Essay to prove that an author will write better for having some knowledge of the subject on which he treats . The discussion is altogether irrelevant ; that is what the Gentle Reader likes . THE GENTLE READER.
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... better than The Shaving of Shagpat , and why the story of " The Probable Son " delights her , while the half - hour homily on the parable makes not the slightest impression on her mind . The fact is , she knows a good story just as she ...
... better than The Shaving of Shagpat , and why the story of " The Probable Son " delights her , while the half - hour homily on the parable makes not the slightest impression on her mind . The fact is , she knows a good story just as she ...
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... Per- ipatetics , gentlemen who were drawn together because they imagined they could think better on their legs ; or there were the Stoics , elderly per- sons who liked to sit on the porch and discuss 10 THE GENTLE READER.
... Per- ipatetics , gentlemen who were drawn together because they imagined they could think better on their legs ; or there were the Stoics , elderly per- sons who liked to sit on the porch and discuss 10 THE GENTLE READER.
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... better . He therefore warmly resents Wordsworth's remark about " that cold and false - hearted , frenchified coxcomb , Horace Walpole . " " What has Horace Walpole done except to give us a picture of his own disposition and inci ...
... better . He therefore warmly resents Wordsworth's remark about " that cold and false - hearted , frenchified coxcomb , Horace Walpole . " " What has Horace Walpole done except to give us a picture of his own disposition and inci ...
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... better . The chances are that the adven- turer finds it harder to attain the coveted place than he had thought . For the fact is that there are not corners enough to go around . If there were enough corners , and every one were content ...
... better . The chances are that the adven- turer finds it harder to attain the coveted place than he had thought . For the fact is that there are not corners enough to go around . If there were enough corners , and every one were content ...
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Page 212 - 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 48 - Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm.
Page 48 - 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 204 - And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant...
Page 312 - 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 207 - 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 314 - Farewell happy fields Where joy for ever dwells! Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 154 - Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 313 - 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 62 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.