At Home and Abroad: Or, Things and Thoughts in America and EuropeCrosby, Nichols, 1856 - 466 էջ |
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... is a common fault among the active men , the truly living , who could tell what life is . It should not be so . Literature should not be left to the mere literati , eloquence to the mere - orator ; every Cæsar should be able to write his.
... is a common fault among the active men , the truly living , who could tell what life is . It should not be so . Literature should not be left to the mere literati , eloquence to the mere - orator ; every Cæsar should be able to write his.
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... write his own commen- tary . We want a more equal , more thorough , more harmonious development , and there is nothing to hinder the men of this coun- try from it , except their own supineness , or sordid views . - When the weather did ...
... write his own commen- tary . We want a more equal , more thorough , more harmonious development , and there is nothing to hinder the men of this coun- try from it , except their own supineness , or sordid views . - When the weather did ...
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... write it down , and I have not heard the slang of these people intimately enough . There is a good book about Indiana , called the New Purchase , written by a person who knows the people of the country well enough to describe them in ...
... write it down , and I have not heard the slang of these people intimately enough . There is a good book about Indiana , called the New Purchase , written by a person who knows the people of the country well enough to describe them in ...
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... writing of Chester , an object which gave me pleasure . I mentioned that the wall which enclosed the old town was two miles in circumference ; far beyond this stretches the modern part of Chester , and the old gateways now overarch the ...
... writing of Chester , an object which gave me pleasure . I mentioned that the wall which enclosed the old town was two miles in circumference ; far beyond this stretches the modern part of Chester , and the old gateways now overarch the ...
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... writer ? " " Truly , madam , " said she , " I think it is because he is so kind a neighbor . " " True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home . " Dr. Arnold , too , who lived , as his family still live , here , – diffused the same ...
... writer ? " " Truly , madam , " said she , " I think it is because he is so kind a neighbor . " " True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home . " Dr. Arnold , too , who lived , as his family still live , here , – diffused the same ...
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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...