The Sewanee Review, Volume 24University of the South, 1916 - American fiction |
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... character that it worked as well as it did . But the innate immorality of it was inescapable , and at the beginning of the last century the British conscience had to shut its eyes hard to be blind to all the lapses of its young ...
... character that it worked as well as it did . But the innate immorality of it was inescapable , and at the beginning of the last century the British conscience had to shut its eyes hard to be blind to all the lapses of its young ...
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... character , that is , which should prevent Isabella marrying him before Chapter I begins . As a virtuous young lady , however , she refuses to have anything to do with him for the reason , not that she knows or thinks him to Byron and ...
... character , that is , which should prevent Isabella marrying him before Chapter I begins . As a virtuous young lady , however , she refuses to have anything to do with him for the reason , not that she knows or thinks him to Byron and ...
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... character whom he wishes to be admired , it must be in spite of himself and because he is reflecting staple conventions . No better witness to the tyranny of these con- ventions could be found . Anna Isabella Milbanke was the daughter ...
... character whom he wishes to be admired , it must be in spite of himself and because he is reflecting staple conventions . No better witness to the tyranny of these con- ventions could be found . Anna Isabella Milbanke was the daughter ...
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... character than she ; few could have known more about his subsequent courses with Lady Oxford and others . Byron's wild oats were not sown in distant and hidden fields . Now Lady Melbourne was also Annabella's aunt , and was on intimate ...
... character than she ; few could have known more about his subsequent courses with Lady Oxford and others . Byron's wild oats were not sown in distant and hidden fields . Now Lady Melbourne was also Annabella's aunt , and was on intimate ...
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... character . " Compared with these beaked and taloned graspers of the world , saints are herbivorous animals , tame and harmless barnyard poultry . " These words- of course they are semi - humorous — are William James's . One wonders ...
... character . " Compared with these beaked and taloned graspers of the world , saints are herbivorous animals , tame and harmless barnyard poultry . " These words- of course they are semi - humorous — are William James's . One wonders ...
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Page 484 - ALAS ! and did my Saviour bleed ? And did my Sovereign die ? Would he devote that sacred head For such a worm as I...
Page 102 - I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow...
Page 167 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy and lean and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropped short, half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him.
Page 456 - Hark! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Page 164 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more...
Page 253 - That when any harbor or other place in the American continents is so situated that the occupation thereof for naval or military purposes might threaten the communications or the safety of the United States, the Government of the United States could not see without grave concern the possession of such harbor or other place by any corporation or association which has such a relation to another Government, not American, as to give that Government practical power of control for naval or military purposes.
Page 90 - In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. The little green leaves would not let me alone in my sleep; Up-breathed from the marshes, a message of range and of sweep, Interwoven with waftures of wild sea-liberties, drifting, Came through the lapped leaves sifting, sifting, Came to the gates of sleep.
Page 456 - And feeling it shameful to feel aught but shame All through her heart, yet felt her cheek burned so, She must a little touch it; like one lame She walked away from Gauwaine...
Page 495 - It will be my endeavour to relate the history of the people as well as the history of the government, to trace the progress of useful and ornamental arts, to describe the rise of religious sects and the changes of literary taste, to portray the manners of successive generations, and not to pass by with neglect even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements.
Page 450 - But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.