The Dial, Volumen19Jansen, McClurg, 1895 |
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... original charades , in- genious in conception and worked out with remarkable skill . Fifth thousand . 18mo , $ 1.00 . " The cleverest work of its kind known to English literature . ” — HENRY A. CLAPP , in Boston Advertiser . Sold by all ...
... original charades , in- genious in conception and worked out with remarkable skill . Fifth thousand . 18mo , $ 1.00 . " The cleverest work of its kind known to English literature . ” — HENRY A. CLAPP , in Boston Advertiser . Sold by all ...
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... original information as to be indispensable to the working ornithologist . ... As a handbook of the birds of eastern North America it is bound to supersede all other works . " - Science . " The author has succeeded in presenting to the ...
... original information as to be indispensable to the working ornithologist . ... As a handbook of the birds of eastern North America it is bound to supersede all other works . " - Science . " The author has succeeded in presenting to the ...
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... original materials are all from life and nature : it is not possible to invent something out of nothing . On the other hand , the amount of fiction may be almost imponderable . More than one successful novel has been a faithful ...
... original materials are all from life and nature : it is not possible to invent something out of nothing . On the other hand , the amount of fiction may be almost imponderable . More than one successful novel has been a faithful ...
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... original system of classification is next pro- vided , by which the novice may readily identify any bird in the fauna east of the Rocky moun- tains . The body of the book is given to brief biographies of the birds , including over five ...
... original system of classification is next pro- vided , by which the novice may readily identify any bird in the fauna east of the Rocky moun- tains . The body of the book is given to brief biographies of the birds , including over five ...
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... original and gratifying studies . Think of twenty pairs of house wrens making their home round about one's dwelling in a single season ; and four pairs of red - eyed vireos with a corresponding multitude of delightful songsters to keep ...
... original and gratifying studies . Think of twenty pairs of house wrens making their home round about one's dwelling in a single season ; and four pairs of red - eyed vireos with a corresponding multitude of delightful songsters to keep ...
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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.