The Dial, Volume 57Jansen, McClurg, 1914 - Literature |
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... writing of any past age , we cherish the small fraction that has enduring value , because based upon knowl- edge and insight , while the great mass of ephemeral stuff has been winnowed away , and is now clean forgotten . Mr. Perry's ...
... writing of any past age , we cherish the small fraction that has enduring value , because based upon knowl- edge and insight , while the great mass of ephemeral stuff has been winnowed away , and is now clean forgotten . Mr. Perry's ...
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... writer adds that it is " owing to the construction of a tunnel four miles into Lake Michigan . " As a matter of fact ... writing in regard to them will meet with much more prompt criticism than our busy people take the trouble to notice ...
... writer adds that it is " owing to the construction of a tunnel four miles into Lake Michigan . " As a matter of fact ... writing in regard to them will meet with much more prompt criticism than our busy people take the trouble to notice ...
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... writing upon a difficult and not over - engaging subject as can be found in contemporary literature . It is worthy of the early reviewers , of the hand of a Macaulay or the heart of a Carlyle . " Tennyson at Freshwater , " though a ...
... writing upon a difficult and not over - engaging subject as can be found in contemporary literature . It is worthy of the early reviewers , of the hand of a Macaulay or the heart of a Carlyle . " Tennyson at Freshwater , " though a ...
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... writing , the tint of the ink , the pres- ence of the names of the dramatists in the margin , the character of the ink , the punctua- tion , the spelling , etc. Mr. Law should not have rested with the examination of the ink , for there ...
... writing , the tint of the ink , the pres- ence of the names of the dramatists in the margin , the character of the ink , the punctua- tion , the spelling , etc. Mr. Law should not have rested with the examination of the ink , for there ...
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... Writing for the mechanic , the pioneer , the rough , he forgot that the rough does not understand or care for roughness , craving perpetually to be smooth . His primary appeal is to those whose ear he would not have thought or cared to ...
... Writing for the mechanic , the pioneer , the rough , he forgot that the rough does not understand or care for roughness , craving perpetually to be smooth . His primary appeal is to those whose ear he would not have thought or cared to ...
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Page 16 - She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.
Page 98 - Genesis) when he was sent to choose a wife for Isaac; for even so he trusted her to choose for him, promising upon a fair summons to return to London and accept of her choice; and he did so in that or about the year following.
Page 250 - With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom, Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM. Then I had religion, then I had a vision, I could not turn from their revel in derision. Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the forest with a golden track.
Page 167 - To his Lute MY lute, be as thou wast when thou didst grow With thy green mother in some shady grove, When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds on thee their ramage did bestow.
Page 311 - Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' 'The question is, 'said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.
Page 413 - And there's a nice youngster of excellent pith: Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith; But he shouted a song for the brave and the free — Just read on his medal, "My country,
Page 298 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue...
Page 299 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need.
Page 249 - Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom, Hard as they were able, Boom, boom, BOOM, With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom, Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM. THEN I had religion, THEN I had a vision. I could not turn from their revel in derision. THEN i SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK, CUTTING THROUGH THE JUNGLE WITH A GOLDEN TRACK.
Page 169 - As, in a dusky and tempestuous night, A star is wont to spread her locks of gold, And while her pleasant rays abroad are roll'd, Some spiteful cloud doth rob us of her sight ; Fair soul, in this black age so shin'd thou bright, And made all eyes with wonder thee behold, Till ugly Death, depriving us of light, In his grim misty arms thee did enfold.