The Living Age, Հատոր 225Living Age Company, 1900 |
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... interest for the historian ; its answer teaches much that concerns our knowledge of the course of evolution and the relation of epoch to epoch . But when we come to consider the value of the work , and the rank of the workers , it tells ...
... interest for the historian ; its answer teaches much that concerns our knowledge of the course of evolution and the relation of epoch to epoch . But when we come to consider the value of the work , and the rank of the workers , it tells ...
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sionate admiration no single name was before the public which has any special interest for our own time . We had never heard of George Eliot or George Meredith , of Herbert Spencer or Mat- thew Arnold ; we knew Charles Darwin as the ...
sionate admiration no single name was before the public which has any special interest for our own time . We had never heard of George Eliot or George Meredith , of Herbert Spencer or Mat- thew Arnold ; we knew Charles Darwin as the ...
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... interest : - " As I was watching the planet , " he says , " I saw suddenly two points like stars flash out in the midst of the polar cap . Dazzlingly bright upon the duller white back- ground of the snow , these stars shone for a few ...
... interest : - " As I was watching the planet , " he says , " I saw suddenly two points like stars flash out in the midst of the polar cap . Dazzlingly bright upon the duller white back- ground of the snow , these stars shone for a few ...
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... interest , to see what would happen . " Faith , then , Chalmers , my jewel , " he burst out at last , " do ye always serve your soda - water neat ? " " Messrs . Kalkbrenner and Ferreira " - ( I could see that he loved to roll out the ...
... interest , to see what would happen . " Faith , then , Chalmers , my jewel , " he burst out at last , " do ye always serve your soda - water neat ? " " Messrs . Kalkbrenner and Ferreira " - ( I could see that he loved to roll out the ...
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... interest and amuse without such gambols . There were no humorous novelists , or none who are now remem- bered as authors of stories between the days of Smollett and Miss Edgeworth . There arose a forgotten school of his- torical ...
... interest and amuse without such gambols . There were no humorous novelists , or none who are now remem- bered as authors of stories between the days of Smollett and Miss Edgeworth . There arose a forgotten school of his- torical ...
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Էջ 43 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Էջ 321 - So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong; So schismatics the plain believers quit, And are but damn'd for having too much wit.
Էջ 301 - My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!
Էջ 81 - Of bagpipers on distant Highland hills. The Shepherd, at such warning, of his flock Bethought him, and he to himself would say 'The winds are now devising work for me!
Էջ 554 - We breakfast commonly between eight and nine; till eleven, we read either the Scripture, or the sermons of some faithful preacher of those holy mysteries; at eleven we attend divine service, which is performed here twice every day; and from twelve to three we separate and amuse ourselves as we please. During that interval I either read in my own apartment, or walk, or ride, or work in the garden.
Էջ 556 - Then shakes his powdered coat, and barks for joy. Heedless of all his pranks, the sturdy churl Moves right toward the mark ; nor stops for aught But now and then with pressure of his thumb To adjust the fragrant charge of a short tube, That fumes beneath his nose : the trailing cloud Streams far behind him, scenting all the air.
Էջ 493 - We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves. Nash, a poet, poor enough (as poets used to be), seeing an alderman with his gold chain, upon his great horse, by way of scorn said to one of his companions, " Do you see yon fellow, how goodly, how big he looks ? Why, that fellow cannot make a blank verse!
Էջ 667 - Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze...
Էջ 244 - The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand : repent ye, and believe in the gospel.
Էջ 255 - Eurus and Auster, and the dreadful force Of Boreas, that congeals the Cronian waves, Tumultuous enter with dire chilling blasts, Portending agues. Thus a well-fraught ship, Long sail'd secure, or through th...