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... Edition of . " Tongues of Fire . " Algernon Blackwood . " Too Much Money . " Israel Zangwill . " This Singing World . " 219 591 ' God of Might . " 342 , 347 " Uplands of Dream , The . " Edgar Saltus . ' Urgut der Menschheit . " 645 Emil ...
... Edition of . " Tongues of Fire . " Algernon Blackwood . " Too Much Money . " Israel Zangwill . " This Singing World . " 219 591 ' God of Might . " 342 , 347 " Uplands of Dream , The . " Edgar Saltus . ' Urgut der Menschheit . " 645 Emil ...
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... edition , " a tall slender book with a fine page , a warm , fine paper " , ought to contain pure poetry ; and sure enough , it , to Mr. Hergeshei- mer's delicate and exacting taste , did . Mr. Moore's introduction , relating a ...
... edition , " a tall slender book with a fine page , a warm , fine paper " , ought to contain pure poetry ; and sure enough , it , to Mr. Hergeshei- mer's delicate and exacting taste , did . Mr. Moore's introduction , relating a ...
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... edition of Burke , a nine volume Shakespeare , delightful volumes of selections from the letters of Cowper and Southey , a new edition of Tolstoy , an apparently complete Mrs. Gaskell and Sisters Brontë , to exceptional pieces like ...
... edition of Burke , a nine volume Shakespeare , delightful volumes of selections from the letters of Cowper and Southey , a new edition of Tolstoy , an apparently complete Mrs. Gaskell and Sisters Brontë , to exceptional pieces like ...
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... edition were published eleven volumes , including , besides the obvious selection , " Castle Richmond " and " The MacDermotts of Ballycloran " . ( The latter is now unfortunately out of print . ) What I want to get hold of is a readable ...
... edition were published eleven volumes , including , besides the obvious selection , " Castle Richmond " and " The MacDermotts of Ballycloran " . ( The latter is now unfortunately out of print . ) What I want to get hold of is a readable ...
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... edition , published a year later , finishing in more tragic fashion . " The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot " which , if you know it not , I beg you to - - forget was written at about the same time . " The Jungle Book ” and " The Second ...
... edition , published a year later , finishing in more tragic fashion . " The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot " which , if you know it not , I beg you to - - forget was written at about the same time . " The Jungle Book ” and " The Second ...
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Page 574 - ... a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Page 122 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 19 - O My dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let Me see thy countenance, let Me hear thy voice ; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
Page 60 - It is their care in all the ages to take the buffet and cushion the shock. It is their care that the gear engages; it is their care that the switches lock. It is their care that the wheels run truly; it is their care to embark and entrain, Tally, transport, and deliver duly the Sons of Mary by land and main. They say to mountains 'Be ye removed.
Page 635 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Page 108 - The New Yorker will be the magazine which is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque.
Page 60 - I put back the bandage) this is the time to fear, When he stands up like a tired man, tottering near and near; When he stands up as pleading, in wavering, man-brute guise, When he veils the hate and cunning of his little, swinish eyes; "When he shows as seeking quarter, with paws like hands in prayer, That is the time of peril — the time of the Truce of the Bear!
Page 2 - Restlessness such as ours, success such as ours, do not make for beauty. Other things must come first: good cookery, cottages that are homes, not playthings; gardens, repose. These are first-rate things, and out of first-rate stuff art is made. It is possible that machinery has finished us as far as this is concerned. Nobody stays at home any more; nobody makes anything beautiful any more.
Page 60 - Teach us the Strength that cannot seek, By deed or thought, to hurt the weak; That, under Thee, we may possess Man's strength to comfort man's distress.
Page 641 - The universe is his box of toys. He dabbles his fingers in the day-fall. He is gold-dusty with tumbling amidst the stars. He makes bright mischief with the moon. The meteors nuzzle their noses in his hand. He teases into growling the kennelled thunder, and laughs at the shaking of its fiery chain. He dances in and out of the gates of heaven : its floor is littered with his broken fancies. He runs wild over the fields of ether. He chases the rolling world.