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... continued to our own time ; the garret is still the usual receptacle of the philosopher and poet ; but this , like many ancient customs , is perpetuated only by an accidental imitation , without knowledge of the original reason for ...
... continued to our own time ; the garret is still the usual receptacle of the philosopher and poet ; but this , like many ancient customs , is perpetuated only by an accidental imitation , without knowledge of the original reason for ...
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... continued by many of his successors . It is not too much to say that he struck the new note chiefly because he was unhampered by a knowl- edge of the classics - wherewith his predecessors had been overladen . He was a modern type - the ...
... continued by many of his successors . It is not too much to say that he struck the new note chiefly because he was unhampered by a knowl- edge of the classics - wherewith his predecessors had been overladen . He was a modern type - the ...
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... continued to work till a hundred and twelve , when he broke one of his ribs by a fall from a cart , and being thereby disabled he fell to beg . This agreeing with what the master of the house told me was reported and believed by all his ...
... continued to work till a hundred and twelve , when he broke one of his ribs by a fall from a cart , and being thereby disabled he fell to beg . This agreeing with what the master of the house told me was reported and believed by all his ...
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... with the most abject Assiduity , and his Sister being gone with Child to a private Lodging , my Lord continued his Graces to Corusodes , got him to be a Chaplain in Ordinary , and in due Time a Parish in 136 SHORT - STORY ESSAY THE.
... with the most abject Assiduity , and his Sister being gone with Child to a private Lodging , my Lord continued his Graces to Corusodes , got him to be a Chaplain in Ordinary , and in due Time a Parish in 136 SHORT - STORY ESSAY THE.
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... continued meanly preferred , but gave large Allowance to the Laity of high Rank or great Riches , using neither Eyes nor Ears for their Faults ; He was never sensible of the least Corruption in Courts , Parlia- ments , or Ministries ...
... continued meanly preferred , but gave large Allowance to the Laity of high Rank or great Riches , using neither Eyes nor Ears for their Faults ; He was never sensible of the least Corruption in Courts , Parlia- ments , or Ministries ...
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Page 329 - Fair youth beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page 290 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Page 337 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Page 319 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 41 - Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on...
Page 222 - So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling. We have other great names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy.
Page 262 - He heeded not reviling tones, Nor sold his heart to idle moans, Tho' cursed and scorn'd, and bruised with stones; 'But looking upward, full of grace, He pray'd, and from a happy place God's glory smote him on the face.
Page 291 - Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, — for that moment only.
Page 183 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Page 145 - I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes in serious discourse, with this particular pleasure which gives the only true relish to all conversation, a sense that every one of us liked each other. I went home, considering the different conditions of a married life and that of a bachelor ; and I must confess it struck me with a secret concern to reflect that whenever I go off I shall leave no traces behind me. In this pensive mood I...