At Home and Abroad: Or, Things and Thoughts in America and EuropeCrosby, Nichols, 1856 - 466 էջ |
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... means to tell How grew the vine of bitter - sweet , What made the path for truant feet , Winter nights would quickly pass , Gazing on the magic glass O'er which the new - world shadows pass . But , in fault of wizard spell , Moderns ...
... means to tell How grew the vine of bitter - sweet , What made the path for truant feet , Winter nights would quickly pass , Gazing on the magic glass O'er which the new - world shadows pass . But , in fault of wizard spell , Moderns ...
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... means ; the gnomes are the most important of all the elemental tribes . Is it not they who make the money ? J. And are accordingly a dark , mean , scoffing- M. You talk as if you had always lived in that wild , unprofit- able element ...
... means ; the gnomes are the most important of all the elemental tribes . Is it not they who make the money ? J. And are accordingly a dark , mean , scoffing- M. You talk as if you had always lived in that wild , unprofit- able element ...
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... mean . They do not spend their energies on their own growth , or their own play , but to feed the veins of Mother Earth with permanent splendors , very different from what she shows on the surface . Think of passing a life , not merely ...
... mean . They do not spend their energies on their own growth , or their own play , but to feed the veins of Mother Earth with permanent splendors , very different from what she shows on the surface . Think of passing a life , not merely ...
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... mean anything of the sort , could be twisted into some reflection upon England , and made it a handle , first of vulgar sarcasm , and then , upon my mother's defending herself with some surprise and gentle dignity , hurled upon her a ...
... mean anything of the sort , could be twisted into some reflection upon England , and made it a handle , first of vulgar sarcasm , and then , upon my mother's defending herself with some surprise and gentle dignity , hurled upon her a ...
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... means could be found of solving the riddle . " He treated his wife with grave and kind politeness , but it was always obvious that they had nothing in common between them . Her manners and tastes were not at that time gross , but her ...
... means could be found of solving the riddle . " He treated his wife with grave and kind politeness , but it was always obvious that they had nothing in common between them . Her manners and tastes were not at that time gross , but her ...
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At Home and Abroad: Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe Margaret Fuller Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1869 |
At Home and Abroad: Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe Margaret Fuller Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1856 |
At Home and Abroad: Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe Margaret Fuller Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1856 |
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Էջ 141 - THAT, AND A' THAT. Is there, for honest poverty, That hangs his head, and a,' that ? The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a
Էջ 141 - Wear hoddin grey, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a
Էջ 141 - Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Էջ 141 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might — Guid faith, he mauna fa' that ! For a
Էջ 152 - DOST thou idly ask to hear At what gentle seasons Nymphs relent, when lovers near Press the tenderest reasons ? Ah, they give their faith too oft To the careless wooer ; Maidens' hearts are always soft : Would that men's were truer. Woo the fair one, when around Early birds are singing ; When, o'er all the fragrant ground, Early herbs are springing ; When the brookside, bank, and grove, All with blossoms laden, Shine with beauty, breathe of love — Woo the timid maiden. Woo her when, with rosy blush,...
Էջ 436 - ... martyrs. Then, Rome is being destroyed ; her glorious oaks, her villas, haunts of sacred beauty, that seemed the possession of the world forever ; the villa of Raphael, the villa of Albani, home of...
Էջ 184 - ... the heroic arrogance of some old Scandinavian conqueror— it is his nature and the untamable impulse that has given him power to crush the dragons. You do not love him, perhaps, nor revere, and perhaps, also, he would only laugh at you if you did, but you like him heartily, and like to see him the powerful smith, the Siegfried, melting all the old iron in his furnace till it glows to a sunset red, and burns you if you senselessly go too near.
Էջ 21 - I trust by reverent faith to woo the mighty meaning of the scene, perhaps to foresee the law by which a new order, a new poetry, is to be evoked from this chaos...
Էջ 53 - A man religious, virtuous and sagacious; a man of universal sympathies, but self-possessed; a man who knows the region of emotion, though he is not its slave; a man to whom this world is no mere spectacle, or fleeting shadow, but a great solemn game to be played with good heed, for its stakes are of eternal value, yet who, if his own play be true, heeds not what he loses by the falsehood of others. A man who hives from the past, yet knows that its honey can but moderately avail him; whose comprehensive...
Էջ 184 - It is the usual misfortune of such marked men (happily not one invariable or inevitable) that they cannot allow other minds room to breathe...