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... began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old . William Wordsworth . - My earliest recollection and what could be a more beautiful one ? is of seeing a perfect rainbow after heavy storm . I was a child of two and a ...
... began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old . William Wordsworth . - My earliest recollection and what could be a more beautiful one ? is of seeing a perfect rainbow after heavy storm . I was a child of two and a ...
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... began to grow within me ; but , what a fright he gave me once ! Unknown to me he put on a wig while having his head shaved to stop the falling of his hair . He was in his easy chair when I came in to climb into his lap . As I thrust my ...
... began to grow within me ; but , what a fright he gave me once ! Unknown to me he put on a wig while having his head shaved to stop the falling of his hair . He was in his easy chair when I came in to climb into his lap . As I thrust my ...
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... began to be spelled Bis- phame , Bisphan , Bisphen , Bisphain , and Bisfan , and was often not only written but spoken as Bisfam , the let- ters p and h being mistaken as intending the sound of f . The correct pronunciation is Bis - pam ...
... began to be spelled Bis- phame , Bisphan , Bisphen , Bisphain , and Bisfan , and was often not only written but spoken as Bisfam , the let- ters p and h being mistaken as intending the sound of f . The correct pronunciation is Bis - pam ...
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... began to pick out the harmonies with which my soul was filled , but of whose devious ways along the keys my fingers were ignorant . Though my own home was so largely unblest by the music which my mother's faith forbade her to enjoy , I ...
... began to pick out the harmonies with which my soul was filled , but of whose devious ways along the keys my fingers were ignorant . Though my own home was so largely unblest by the music which my mother's faith forbade her to enjoy , I ...
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... to Philadelphia at all until the rail- road was put through ; then the old village with its Main Street lined with noble trees began rapidly to change . At first we lived at Mrs. Higbee's house at the 15 CHAPTER II THE YOUNG IDEA.
... to Philadelphia at all until the rail- road was put through ; then the old village with its Main Street lined with noble trees began rapidly to change . At first we lived at Mrs. Higbee's house at the 15 CHAPTER II THE YOUNG IDEA.
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Page 345 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also : I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 364 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 126 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 131 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 230 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 345 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
Page 353 - Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound, Of all that mote delight a dainty ear, Such as at once might not on living ground, Save in this paradise, be heard elsewhere...
Page 47 - I do embrace it; for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer.
Page 301 - twill pass for wit; Care not for feeling — pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd. And shall we own such judgment? no— as soon Seek roses in December— ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before You trust in critics, who themselves are sore Or yield one single thought to be misled By Jeffrey's heart, or Lambe's Boeotian head.