The Living Age, Volume 253Living Age Company, 1907 |
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... stands . " Nor does the fact that Long- fellow is the standing butt for the cheaper sort of parody mean that he is ceasing ... Stand- ish " is delivered at hundreds of penny readings . Illuminated by music , " Hia- watha " The Longfellow ...
... stands . " Nor does the fact that Long- fellow is the standing butt for the cheaper sort of parody mean that he is ceasing ... Stand- ish " is delivered at hundreds of penny readings . Illuminated by music , " Hia- watha " The Longfellow ...
Page 22
... stand in the roadway , or on the pavements gray . We venture to say that in his lyrics Longfellow never wrote so bad a line as that , with its assonances on the a sound all through , its semi - rhyme at the cœsura , its final inversion ...
... stand in the roadway , or on the pavements gray . We venture to say that in his lyrics Longfellow never wrote so bad a line as that , with its assonances on the a sound all through , its semi - rhyme at the cœsura , its final inversion ...
Page 45
... stand cold , and " can this beautiful white compost be strengthened and hard- ened ? " is the problem at Swansea . But again the experiments failed . Be- tween the trial and re - trial firings Bil- lingsley painted and taught to paint ...
... stand cold , and " can this beautiful white compost be strengthened and hard- ened ? " is the problem at Swansea . But again the experiments failed . Be- tween the trial and re - trial firings Bil- lingsley painted and taught to paint ...
Page 59
... stand a minute's analysis . Our latest novelties of six - inch begonias , or mop- headed chrysanthemums , even while they electrify the show - tent , are old- fashioned for those gardeners who shall call our time antique . The sim- pler ...
... stand a minute's analysis . Our latest novelties of six - inch begonias , or mop- headed chrysanthemums , even while they electrify the show - tent , are old- fashioned for those gardeners who shall call our time antique . The sim- pler ...
Page 60
... stand near the doubtful line . There is a good deal of signifi- cance in the names of garden - flowers ; some of those given above are clas- sical , and many of them go excellently in verse : gillyflowers and Love - in - idle- ness ...
... stand near the doubtful line . There is a good deal of signifi- cance in the names of garden - flowers ; some of those given above are clas- sical , and many of them go excellently in verse : gillyflowers and Love - in - idle- ness ...
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Page 544 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 15 - Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: ' A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 26 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 128 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Page 696 - Commons; and all bills for the granting of any such aids and supplies ought to begin with the Commons; and that it is the undoubted and sole right of the Commons to direct, limit and appoint in such bills, the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations, and qualifications of such grants which ought not to be changed or altered by the House of Lords...
Page 404 - To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's self with the forced product of another man's brain. Now I think a man of quality and breeding may be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own.
Page 26 - O pardon ! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million, And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.
Page 644 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last. Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame? I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart, I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. Thou hast...
Page 282 - The satirist" may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind.
Page 355 - What then is man ! What then is man ! He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before the moth. Yet in the being and in the working of a faithful man is there already (as all faith from the beginning gives assurance) a something that pertains not to this wild death-element of Time ; that triumphs over Time, and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more.