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... turns out to be a sensible sort of man who does n't put on airs . . He likes the old Greek way of philosophizing . What a delight it was for him to learn that the Academy in Athens was not a white building with green blinds set upon a ...
... turns out to be a sensible sort of man who does n't put on airs . . He likes the old Greek way of philosophizing . What a delight it was for him to learn that the Academy in Athens was not a white building with green blinds set upon a ...
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... turns to something more interesting . " I have a great mind to tell you a Twickenham story . " It is about a certain Captain Mawhood who had " applied himself to learn the classics and free - thinking and was always disputing with the ...
... turns to something more interesting . " I have a great mind to tell you a Twickenham story . " It is about a certain Captain Mawhood who had " applied himself to learn the classics and free - thinking and was always disputing with the ...
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... turns out to be only a Tract for the Times , he turns indignantly on the author . " Sirrah , " he cries , under the influence of deep feeling , relapsing into the vernacular of romance , " you gained access to me under the plea that you ...
... turns out to be only a Tract for the Times , he turns indignantly on the author . " Sirrah , " he cries , under the influence of deep feeling , relapsing into the vernacular of romance , " you gained access to me under the plea that you ...
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... turns out . If our writers would only follow this straightforward method we should hear less about nervous prostration among the reading classes . " He is very severe on the whim- sical notion , that never occurred to any one until the ...
... turns out . If our writers would only follow this straightforward method we should hear less about nervous prostration among the reading classes . " He is very severe on the whim- sical notion , that never occurred to any one until the ...
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... turn away from the poets altogether . Why should they spend valuable time in trying to unravel the meaning of lines which were in- vented to baffle them ? There are plenty of things we do not understand , without going out of our way to ...
... turn away from the poets altogether . Why should they spend valuable time in trying to unravel the meaning of lines which were in- vented to baffle them ? There are plenty of things we do not understand , without going out of our way to ...
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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.