Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: A-ZInternational Society, 1897 - Authors |
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Page 14733
... humanity ; and while producing good literature , are drawing East and West , North and South together , by making them better known to each other . Miss French's stories are skillful in workmanship , warm with humanity , and very ...
... humanity ; and while producing good literature , are drawing East and West , North and South together , by making them better known to each other . Miss French's stories are skillful in workmanship , warm with humanity , and very ...
Page 14760
... human existence , interwoven of good and ill , is always present , lending pathos to the beauty of nature , and imbu- ing with a tender melancholy the tonic of sea air and free communion with fair cre- ated things . CELIA THAXTER Celia ...
... human existence , interwoven of good and ill , is always present , lending pathos to the beauty of nature , and imbu- ing with a tender melancholy the tonic of sea air and free communion with fair cre- ated things . CELIA THAXTER Celia ...
Page 14766
... human creature stands : Vainly he tries to reason or to think , Left with his aching heart and empty hands ; He calls his lost in vain . In sorrow drowned , Darkness and silence all his sense confound . Till in Death's roll - call stern ...
... human creature stands : Vainly he tries to reason or to think , Left with his aching heart and empty hands ; He calls his lost in vain . In sorrow drowned , Darkness and silence all his sense confound . Till in Death's roll - call stern ...
Page 14790
... human life . The very gods are reproached for grievous injustice . Poverty is so bitter that suicide is a justifiable means of escape . Temperance in the Greek sense . is praised ; yet even here there are exceptions : – - " Shameful it ...
... human life . The very gods are reproached for grievous injustice . Poverty is so bitter that suicide is a justifiable means of escape . Temperance in the Greek sense . is praised ; yet even here there are exceptions : – - " Shameful it ...
Page 14792
... human nature ; - take it as you find ! A mixture of ingredients , good or bad , Such are we all , the best that can be had : The best are found defective ; and the rest , For common use , are equal to the best . Suppose it had been ...
... human nature ; - take it as you find ! A mixture of ingredients , good or bad , Such are we all , the best that can be had : The best are found defective ; and the rest , For common use , are equal to the best . Suppose it had been ...
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