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... heart ; Dullness whose good old cause I still defend . O ever gracious to perplex'd mankind , Still shed a healing mist before the mind ; And lest we err by wit's wild dancing light , Secure us kindly in our native night . " I would not ...
... heart ; Dullness whose good old cause I still defend . O ever gracious to perplex'd mankind , Still shed a healing mist before the mind ; And lest we err by wit's wild dancing light , Secure us kindly in our native night . " I would not ...
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... heart went out to him at once . " Poor Purley ! " I said . " If these were your diversions , what a dog's life you must have led ! ” I could see Purley gazing vaguely through his spectacles as he said : " Don't pity me ! It's true I ...
... heart went out to him at once . " Poor Purley ! " I said . " If these were your diversions , what a dog's life you must have led ! ” I could see Purley gazing vaguely through his spectacles as he said : " Don't pity me ! It's true I ...
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... heart for those whom he calls the paradisaical writers . These are the unfallen spirits who reveal their native dispositions and are not ashamed . They write about that which they find most inter- esting themselves . They not only tell ...
... heart for those whom he calls the paradisaical writers . These are the unfallen spirits who reveal their native dispositions and are not ashamed . They write about that which they find most inter- esting themselves . They not only tell ...
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... when it is all put in a book and the pure juices of self - satisfaction have been allowed to mellow for a few centuries , nothing can be more delicious . " His heart was won by a single sentence in one 20 THE GENTLE READER.
... when it is all put in a book and the pure juices of self - satisfaction have been allowed to mellow for a few centuries , nothing can be more delicious . " His heart was won by a single sentence in one 20 THE GENTLE READER.
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Samuel McChord Crothers. His heart was won by a single sentence in one of Horace Walpole's letters : " I write to you as I think . " To the writer who gives him this mark of confidence he is as faithful as is the Arab to the guest who ...
Samuel McChord Crothers. His heart was won by a single sentence in one of Horace Walpole's letters : " I write to you as I think . " To the writer who gives him this mark of confidence he is as faithful as is the Arab to the guest who ...
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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.