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... standing the old - fashioned Preface was the most excellent . It was not an introduction to the sub- ject , its purpose was personal . In these days the Preface , where it survives , is reduced to the small- est possible space . It is ...
... standing the old - fashioned Preface was the most excellent . It was not an introduction to the sub- ject , its purpose was personal . In these days the Preface , where it survives , is reduced to the small- est possible space . It is ...
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... stand it . I will apply myself with all diligence , that by means of it I may improve my mind . " Who has not sometimes quailed before the long row of British Poets in uniform binding , standing stiffly side by side , like so many ...
... stand it . I will apply myself with all diligence , that by means of it I may improve my mind . " Who has not sometimes quailed before the long row of British Poets in uniform binding , standing stiffly side by side , like so many ...
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... stand must be invested with some artificial diffi- culty . The learned guardians of these treasures insist that they cannot be appreciated unless there has been much preliminary wrestling with a " critical apparatus , " and much delving ...
... stand must be invested with some artificial diffi- culty . The learned guardians of these treasures insist that they cannot be appreciated unless there has been much preliminary wrestling with a " critical apparatus , " and much delving ...
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... stand at last with King Arthur on the shore of the mystic sea , and see the barge come slowly with the three queens , “ black - stoled , black - hooded , like a dream ; " and hear across the water a cry , " As it were one voice , an ...
... stand at last with King Arthur on the shore of the mystic sea , and see the barge come slowly with the three queens , “ black - stoled , black - hooded , like a dream ; " and hear across the water a cry , " As it were one voice , an ...
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... stands in all its shameless actuality ask- ing , " What do you make of me ? " Just here comes the beneficent mission of humor . It takes these unassorted realities that are the despair of the sober intelligence , and extracts from them ...
... stands in all its shameless actuality ask- ing , " What do you make of me ? " Just here comes the beneficent mission of humor . It takes these unassorted realities that are the despair of the sober intelligence , and extracts from them ...
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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.