Nugæ litterariæ; or, Brief essays on literary, social, and other themesLondon, Cambridge, U.S.A. [printed], 1896 - 344 pages |
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... better for a poet's fame to have produced a few good verses than a thousand mediocre ones ; better one brief poem , shorn of all excrescences and con- densed into power , than a myriad of diffuse ones , which are only " tolerable ...
... better for a poet's fame to have produced a few good verses than a thousand mediocre ones ; better one brief poem , shorn of all excrescences and con- densed into power , than a myriad of diffuse ones , which are only " tolerable ...
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... better for it ; yet how few of us avail ourselves of the wealth of sunshine that is poured out so lavishly all around us ! We all understand the ef- fects of the withdrawal of sunlight from plants in winter ; but it is too often ...
... better for it ; yet how few of us avail ourselves of the wealth of sunshine that is poured out so lavishly all around us ! We all understand the ef- fects of the withdrawal of sunlight from plants in winter ; but it is too often ...
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... better than other men , and in solving whose problems he may become an expert ? What is a man good for without professional enthusiasm , does not give his whole soul to his calling , concentrating upon it all his energies , and loving ...
... better than other men , and in solving whose problems he may become an expert ? What is a man good for without professional enthusiasm , does not give his whole soul to his calling , concentrating upon it all his energies , and loving ...
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... better pleased with himself than his half- faced counterfeit ; and this simply through his force and determination of character . We should have , too , more hope of reclaiming him and making him a blessing to the world than of ...
... better pleased with himself than his half- faced counterfeit ; and this simply through his force and determination of character . We should have , too , more hope of reclaiming him and making him a blessing to the world than of ...
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... better , with ready wit , " it is surprising how readily our people , when they come over here , acquire your habits ! " How to Treat Satirists . - WHAT is the best way to treat a satirist , one who has made you the butt of his ridicule ...
... better , with ready wit , " it is surprising how readily our people , when they come over here , acquire your habits ! " How to Treat Satirists . - WHAT is the best way to treat a satirist , one who has made you the butt of his ridicule ...
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Page 152 - It ceased; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook, In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Page 87 - Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind 'away...
Page 19 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Page 210 - You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. — You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Look upon your Hands! They are stained with the Blood of your Relations! — You and I were long Friends: — You are now my Enemy, — and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Page 221 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 316 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old !— The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns...
Page 136 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Page 146 - I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Page 8 - The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.
Page 134 - They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.