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... less than five hundred miles from London , were many miniature courts , in each of which a petty prince , attended by guards , by armour- bearers , by musicians , by a hereditary orator , by a hereditary poet laureate , kept a rude ...
... less than five hundred miles from London , were many miniature courts , in each of which a petty prince , attended by guards , by armour- bearers , by musicians , by a hereditary orator , by a hereditary poet laureate , kept a rude ...
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... less , and what worlds away ! How a sound shall quicken content to bliss , Or a breath suspend the blood's best play , And life be a proof of this ! A moment after , and hands unseen Were hanging the night around us fast ; But we knew ...
... less , and what worlds away ! How a sound shall quicken content to bliss , Or a breath suspend the blood's best play , And life be a proof of this ! A moment after , and hands unseen Were hanging the night around us fast ; But we knew ...
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... less intellectual cast . In stature he was some- what below the middle height , with a slight , symme- trical figure and well - made limbs . He was attentive to his dress , which was rich and elegant , but without any affectation of ...
... less intellectual cast . In stature he was some- what below the middle height , with a slight , symme- trical figure and well - made limbs . He was attentive to his dress , which was rich and elegant , but without any affectation of ...
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... less in the material than in the execution . A generation had scarcely passed since Michael Angelo and Raphael had pro- duced their miracles of sculpture and of painting ; and now Correggio , Paul Veronese , and Titian were filling ...
... less in the material than in the execution . A generation had scarcely passed since Michael Angelo and Raphael had pro- duced their miracles of sculpture and of painting ; and now Correggio , Paul Veronese , and Titian were filling ...
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... less " strong of the bitter " in his former period than in his latter ; and , if any change may be found , we are more inclined to think that time has softened down his coarser tints , and mel- lowed his rougher colouring ; that ...
... less " strong of the bitter " in his former period than in his latter ; and , if any change may be found , we are more inclined to think that time has softened down his coarser tints , and mel- lowed his rougher colouring ; that ...
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Seite 18 - It was not her time to love ; beside, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little...
Seite 18 - I loved you, Evelyn, all the while ! My heart seemed full as it could hold ; There was place and to spare for the frank young smile, And the red young mouth, and the hair's young gold. So, hush, — I will give you this leaf to keep : See, I shut it inside the sweet cold hand ! There, that is our secret : go to sleep ! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
Seite 18 - EVELYN HOPE Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead ! Sit and watch by her side an hour. That is her book-shelf, this her bed; She plucked that piece of geranium-flower, Beginning to die too, in the glass; Little has yet been changed, I think : The shutters are shut, no light may pass Save two long rays through the hinge's chink.
Seite 230 - But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
Seite 19 - A moment after, and hands unseen Were hanging the night around us fast; But we knew that a bar was broken between Life and life: we were mixed at last In spite of the mortal screen.
Seite 27 - WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on...
Seite 205 - On the whole, we make too much of faults; the details of the business hide the real centre of it. Faults ? The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Seite 264 - ANALOGUE." — A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal. " HOMOLOGUE." — The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function f.
Seite 17 - Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woe Long ago; Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame Struck them tame; And that glory and that shame alike, the gold Bought and sold.
Seite 19 - Be hate that fruit or love that fruit, It forwards the general deed of man, And each of the Many helps to recruit The life of the race by a general plan ; Each living his own, to boot.