Copeland's Treasury for Booklovers, Volume 1C. Scribner's Sons, 1927 - American literature |
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... nature — especially in Gardens -admiring and envying youth , almost pitying age , searching his own time and the whole past for examples , Bacon urges his seeing mind among the motives , and hopes , and fears of men , with a triumphant ...
... nature — especially in Gardens -admiring and envying youth , almost pitying age , searching his own time and the whole past for examples , Bacon urges his seeing mind among the motives , and hopes , and fears of men , with a triumphant ...
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... natural heritage ; it was reproduced in him ; looking into his soul he found it there . But his relation to it was only , as one may say , intellectual : it was not moral and theological . He played with it , and used it as a pigment ...
... natural heritage ; it was reproduced in him ; looking into his soul he found it there . But his relation to it was only , as one may say , intellectual : it was not moral and theological . He played with it , and used it as a pigment ...
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... nature , no , nor death ; For nothing is that errs from law . ” And of this life and another he writes : " Eternal process moving on , From state to state the spirits walk ; And these are but the shattered stalk Or ruin'd chrysalis of ...
... nature , no , nor death ; For nothing is that errs from law . ” And of this life and another he writes : " Eternal process moving on , From state to state the spirits walk ; And these are but the shattered stalk Or ruin'd chrysalis of ...
Page xxiv
... natural enough that , in his own theatri- cal practice , Sheridan himself should have been an arch - conservative . Nothing shows his proverbial timidity better than the well - worn anecdote of Mrs. Siddons , Sheridan , and the sleep ...
... natural enough that , in his own theatri- cal practice , Sheridan himself should have been an arch - conservative . Nothing shows his proverbial timidity better than the well - worn anecdote of Mrs. Siddons , Sheridan , and the sleep ...
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... nature ; and it is set on fire of hell . 7 For every kind of beasts , and of birds , and of serpents , and of things in the sea , is tamed , and hath been tamed of mankind : 8 But the tongue can no man tame ; it is an unruly evil , full ...
... nature ; and it is set on fire of hell . 7 For every kind of beasts , and of birds , and of serpents , and of things in the sea , is tamed , and hath been tamed of mankind : 8 But the tongue can no man tame ; it is an unruly evil , full ...
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