Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: A-ZInternational Society, 1897 - Authors |
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Page 14793
... human reason draw ? How can we guess the secret of thy law , Or choose the path approved by power divine ? We take , alas ! perforce , the crooked line , And act unwillingly the baser part , Though loving truth and justice at our heart ...
... human reason draw ? How can we guess the secret of thy law , Or choose the path approved by power divine ? We take , alas ! perforce , the crooked line , And act unwillingly the baser part , Though loving truth and justice at our heart ...
Page 14831
... human mind is incessantly passing from one object to another . From the theatre and the pulpit , French genius turned to the moral and political sciences : all then became changed . Figure to yourself , during a whole century , the ...
... human mind is incessantly passing from one object to another . From the theatre and the pulpit , French genius turned to the moral and political sciences : all then became changed . Figure to yourself , during a whole century , the ...
Page 14836
... human affairs . Why had atrocious circumstances com- pelled the creation of a government of blood , which was to reign and vanquish solely by inflicting death ? A still more frightful circumstance is , that when the signal is given ...
... human affairs . Why had atrocious circumstances com- pelled the creation of a government of blood , which was to reign and vanquish solely by inflicting death ? A still more frightful circumstance is , that when the signal is given ...
Page 14852
... human interests ; it is always the background for the human drama : but for this reason it was popular , and will always remain popular , with a class of persons to whom the Wordsworthian conception seems cold and unsympathetic ...
... human interests ; it is always the background for the human drama : but for this reason it was popular , and will always remain popular , with a class of persons to whom the Wordsworthian conception seems cold and unsympathetic ...
Page 14869
... human which are strange and wild , This is perchance the wildest and most strange , And showeth man most utterly beguiled , To those who haunt that sunless City's range : That he bemoans himself for aye , repeating How Time is deadly ...
... human which are strange and wild , This is perchance the wildest and most strange , And showeth man most utterly beguiled , To those who haunt that sunless City's range : That he bemoans himself for aye , repeating How Time is deadly ...
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