Development of English Literature and LanguageS.C. Griggs and Company, 1882 - English language |
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... cause to rejoice . It signifies that we are gravitating in the ideal direction ; that art , sentiment , and imagination are dividing favor with trade and government . It means the gradual uplift of the Republic towards the high - water ...
... cause to rejoice . It signifies that we are gravitating in the ideal direction ; that art , sentiment , and imagination are dividing favor with trade and government . It means the gradual uplift of the Republic towards the high - water ...
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... causes . The high and natural destination of the soul is the full development of its moral and intellectual faculties . Hence knowledge is chiefly valuable as a means of mental activity . And since the desire of unity , and the ...
... causes . The high and natural destination of the soul is the full development of its moral and intellectual faculties . Hence knowledge is chiefly valuable as a means of mental activity . And since the desire of unity , and the ...
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... cause , without actually bringing it forward . ' With- out twisting a story into a sermon , I have humbly endeavored to present it as the artist describes nature , -with a light falling upon it from the region of the highest and truest ...
... cause , without actually bringing it forward . ' With- out twisting a story into a sermon , I have humbly endeavored to present it as the artist describes nature , -with a light falling upon it from the region of the highest and truest ...
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... caused his own language , customs , and laws to become paramount , was laid the sure foundation of the future nation - the one German state that rose on the wreck of Rome . It is in this sanguinary and ineffectual struggle that romance ...
... caused his own language , customs , and laws to become paramount , was laid the sure foundation of the future nation - the one German state that rose on the wreck of Rome . It is in this sanguinary and ineffectual struggle that romance ...
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... cause love or hatred , raise the dead , and extort from them the secrets of the spirit - world . Thus says the heroine of a Northern romance : ' Like a Virgin of the Shield I roved o'er the sea , My arm was victorious , my valor was ...
... cause love or hatred , raise the dead , and extort from them the secrets of the spirit - world . Thus says the heroine of a Northern romance : ' Like a Virgin of the Shield I roved o'er the sea , My arm was victorious , my valor was ...
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Page 383 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird, or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting: "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken! Quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 343 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 481 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 383 - Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken ! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door ! " Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from...
Page 174 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 376 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some ; whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Page 213 - The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 465 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 84 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Page 354 - The rest complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields, To wayward winter reckoning yields, A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of Roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten.