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... matter how re- cently past were its data , if its subject - matter were on other grounds recognized as historical . " Wav- erley , " the type and pioneer of the species , treated events only sixty years gone by . Antiquity is not a mark ...
... matter how re- cently past were its data , if its subject - matter were on other grounds recognized as historical . " Wav- erley , " the type and pioneer of the species , treated events only sixty years gone by . Antiquity is not a mark ...
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... matter than over optimism and pessimism . These tinctures are the result of a man's food , like the proportion of red corpuscles in his blood . a rule , the cosmopolitan learns that men are about alike the world over ; while the ...
... matter than over optimism and pessimism . These tinctures are the result of a man's food , like the proportion of red corpuscles in his blood . a rule , the cosmopolitan learns that men are about alike the world over ; while the ...
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... matters which scarcely belong to the story of the war , such as the detailed account , given in Chapter Fifteen , of two contested elec- tion cases , including copious extracts from the speeches of members upon legal points of no ...
... matters which scarcely belong to the story of the war , such as the detailed account , given in Chapter Fifteen , of two contested elec- tion cases , including copious extracts from the speeches of members upon legal points of no ...
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... matter how innocent and regular may be a man's life and habits in Washington , his mind does not escape the kind of dissipation that in a way unfits it for the ordinary pursuits of life . If his career has been passably successful , he ...
... matter how innocent and regular may be a man's life and habits in Washington , his mind does not escape the kind of dissipation that in a way unfits it for the ordinary pursuits of life . If his career has been passably successful , he ...
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... matter is packed into the mi- nutest compass . Not a word is wasted ; and , we might add , not a fact is omitted— not an essential fact , at least , so carefully selected and condensed is the information afforded . The work begins with ...
... matter is packed into the mi- nutest compass . Not a word is wasted ; and , we might add , not a fact is omitted— not an essential fact , at least , so carefully selected and condensed is the information afforded . The work begins with ...
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Página 206 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform; Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Página 206 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Página 280 - How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Página 404 - HAYDN'S DICTIONARY; OF DATES, relating to all Ages and Nations. For Universal Reference. Edited by BENJAMIN VINCENT, Assistant Secretary and Keeper of the. Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain ; and Revised for the Use of American Readers. 8vo, Cloth, $5 00 ; Sheep, $6 00.
Página 292 - Woodstock,' edited by Professor Bliss Perry, deepens the impression made by the earlier numbers that this series, LONGMANS' ENGLISH CLASSICS, is one of unusual excellence in the editing, and will prove a valuable auxiliary in the reform of English teaching now generally in progress. . . . We have, in addition to the unabridged text of the novel, a careful editorial introduction ; the author's introduction, preface and notes ; a reprint of ' The Just Devil of Woodstock'; and such foot-notes as the...
Página 15 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.
Página 243 - I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in .funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards ; and there was a throng of people, some gazing mournII7 fully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?
Página 378 - It might be fairly urged that I have less poetical sentiment than Tennyson, and less intellectual vigour and abundance than Browning ; yet, because I have perhaps more of a fusion of the two than either of them, and have more regularly applied that fusion to the main line of modern development, I am likely enough to have my turn, as they have had theirs.
Página 107 - That perfection of the intellect, which is the result of education, and its beau ideal, to be imparted to individuals in their respective 30 measures, is the clear, calm, accurate vision and comprehension of all things, as far as the finite mind can embrace them, each in its place, and with its own characteristics upon it.
Página 117 - DUSK DUSK wraps the village in its dim caress ; Each chimney's vapour, like a thin grey rod, Mounting aloft through miles of quietness, Pillars the skies of God. Far up they break or seem to break their line, Mingling their nebulous crests that bow and nod Under the light of those fierce stars that shine Out of the calm of God. Only in clouds and dreams I felt those souls In the abyss, each fire hid in its clod ; From which in clouds and dreams the spirit rolls Into the vast of God.