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Page 5861
A study of all this , however , with material at a minimum , and conjecture or
philological combination as the only possible method of investigation , must be
relegated to the treatise and the monograph ; ' for present purposes we must
confine ...
A study of all this , however , with material at a minimum , and conjecture or
philological combination as the only possible method of investigation , must be
relegated to the treatise and the monograph ; ' for present purposes we must
confine ...
Page 5877
... still more baffled , is the purely lyrical survival of that old communal and festal
song ; and the best one can do is to present those few specimens found under
conditions which preserve certain qualities of a vanished world of poetry . It may
be ...
... still more baffled , is the purely lyrical survival of that old communal and festal
song ; and the best one can do is to present those few specimens found under
conditions which preserve certain qualities of a vanished world of poetry . It may
be ...
Page 5887
Oh ! if that be the state of the case , ” replied Foote , “ I will give you a motto from
Milton for the work in its present state : “ Things unattempted yet in prose or
rhyme . ) » REAL FRIENDSHIP A YOUNG gentleman , making an apology to
SAMUEL ...
Oh ! if that be the state of the case , ” replied Foote , “ I will give you a motto from
Milton for the work in its present state : “ Things unattempted yet in prose or
rhyme . ) » REAL FRIENDSHIP A YOUNG gentleman , making an apology to
SAMUEL ...
Page 5890
An artificial light , thereafter , replaced it . FROM PERKIN WARBECKY [ Perkin
Warbeck and his followers are presented to King Henry VII . by Lord Dawbeny as
prisoners . ] AWBENY — Life to the King , and safety fix his throne . I here present
...
An artificial light , thereafter , replaced it . FROM PERKIN WARBECKY [ Perkin
Warbeck and his followers are presented to King Henry VII . by Lord Dawbeny as
prisoners . ] AWBENY — Life to the King , and safety fix his throne . I here present
...
Page 5896
At the present day , with a few brilliant exceptions , all of his plays , romances ,
and poems have been relegated to oblivion . There is one work , however , a
gem in German literature , that has won for its author an enduring place in the
memory ...
At the present day , with a few brilliant exceptions , all of his plays , romances ,
and poems have been relegated to oblivion . There is one work , however , a
gem in German literature , that has won for its author an enduring place in the
memory ...
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Page 5965 - I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbid myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as certainly...
Page 5961 - I cross'd these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column...
Page 5940 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Page 5952 - I had made of the sense of all ages and nations. However, I resolved to be the better for the echo of it, and though I had at first determined to buy stuff for a new coat, I went away resolved to wear my old one a little longer.
Page 5952 - I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men.
Page 5962 - Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 5959 - We have an English proverb that says, " He that would thrive must ask his wife.
Page 6135 - He studieth his scholars' natures as carefully as they their books; and ranks their dispositions into several forms. And though it may seem difficult for him in a great school to descend to all particulars, yet experienced schoolmasters may quickly make a grammar of boys' natures, and reduce them all — saving some few exceptions — to these general rules : 1.
Page 5949 - Goods, but if you do not take Care, they will prove Evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may for less than they cost; but if you have no Occasion for them, they must be dear to you. Remember what Poor Richard says, Buy what thou hast no Need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
Page 6249 - How can they say that nature Has nothing made in vain; Why then beneath the water Should hideous rocks remain? No eyes the rocks discover, That lurk beneath the deep, To wreck the wand'ring lover, And leave the maid to weep.
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| Title | Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 15 Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Charles Dudley Warner |
| Editor | Charles Dudley Warner |
| Publisher | International Society, 1896 |
| ISBN | 0810805219, 9780810805217 |
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