Cambridge Essays, Volume 1John W. Parker and son, 1856 |
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... story of the house of flesh . That one who was destined by fate ( whatever that is ) to polish his mother tongue with the graces of thought should be doomed to spend life's early prime in polishing his father's tables with spirit of ...
... story of the house of flesh . That one who was destined by fate ( whatever that is ) to polish his mother tongue with the graces of thought should be doomed to spend life's early prime in polishing his father's tables with spirit of ...
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... story goes on to state that the monks of San Francisco were so scandalized at this and other like excesses on the part of Don Juan , whose illustrious birth enabled him to evade the penalties of the law , that they enticed him into ...
... story goes on to state that the monks of San Francisco were so scandalized at this and other like excesses on the part of Don Juan , whose illustrious birth enabled him to evade the penalties of the law , that they enticed him into ...
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... story turns on a girl who shams illness because her father will not allow her to marry . It is in the first scene - where all sorts of suggestions are tendered for effecting a cure , among others , a present of jewellery - that those ...
... story turns on a girl who shams illness because her father will not allow her to marry . It is in the first scene - where all sorts of suggestions are tendered for effecting a cure , among others , a present of jewellery - that those ...
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... story about being asked his opinion on some daub of a portrait : he made use of the stereotyped answer to such inquiries , namely that ' it was a capital likeness . ' The absurd part of the affair is , that Rousseau then smites upon his ...
... story about being asked his opinion on some daub of a portrait : he made use of the stereotyped answer to such inquiries , namely that ' it was a capital likeness . ' The absurd part of the affair is , that Rousseau then smites upon his ...
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... story of this tilt against Molière is sufficiently curious . Bossuet ferreted out an unhappy theatine monk , by name Caffaro , who had written a Latin thesis , when at college , on the drama . This thesis Boursault translated into ...
... story of this tilt against Molière is sufficiently curious . Bossuet ferreted out an unhappy theatine monk , by name Caffaro , who had written a Latin thesis , when at college , on the drama . This thesis Boursault translated into ...
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Page 41 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 248 - And all his greaves and cuisses dash'd with drops Of onset ; and the light and lustrous curls — That made his forehead like a rising sun High from the...
Page 262 - I was left a trampled orphan, and a selfish uncle's ward. Or to burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day.
Page 226 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Page 179 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Page 279 - Yet if some voice that man could trust Should murmur from the narrow house, 'The cheeks drop in; the body bows; Man dies : nor is there hope in dust : ' Might I not say? 'Yet even here, But for one hour, O Love, I strive To keep so sweet a thing alive...
Page 246 - The bare black cliff clang' d round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.
Page 254 - Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells ; And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock ; Although between it and the garden lies A league of grass...
Page 178 - tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent; Nor is his claim to plenty, but content. But grant him riches, your demand is o'er? "No — shall the good want health, the good want power?" Add health and power, and every earthly thing, "Why bounded power? why private? why no king?
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