Texas Review, Volume 7University of Texas., 1922 |
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... Italians , and among the peons are many castes and laws : . . and yet all live in peace . In Europe we should have been in a grand fight by this time , but here we are all friends . " • Desnoyers's son Julio comes to be the old man's ...
... Italians , and among the peons are many castes and laws : . . and yet all live in peace . In Europe we should have been in a grand fight by this time , but here we are all friends . " • Desnoyers's son Julio comes to be the old man's ...
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... Italy diverts at times the attention of the people in Monte Carlo from gambling and other things . Alicia has a ... Italians , Frenchmen and Englishmen . And they are only a fragment of the many millions who have lost their lives in the ...
... Italy diverts at times the attention of the people in Monte Carlo from gambling and other things . Alicia has a ... Italians , Frenchmen and Englishmen . And they are only a fragment of the many millions who have lost their lives in the ...
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... Italy , Spain , Latin- America , France , England , and the islands of the seas . He denies the assertion made by a writer in The Edinburgh Re- view of January , 1910 , that Poe is the only American writer to whom the title of " world ...
... Italy , Spain , Latin- America , France , England , and the islands of the seas . He denies the assertion made by a writer in The Edinburgh Re- view of January , 1910 , that Poe is the only American writer to whom the title of " world ...
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... Italian , with his pure and sure touch , with his fineness of perception , is far more of the artist . " And yet Leopardi's poems , published in the year of Byron's death , sold their tens while Byron's sold their thousands . To this ...
... Italian , with his pure and sure touch , with his fineness of perception , is far more of the artist . " And yet Leopardi's poems , published in the year of Byron's death , sold their tens while Byron's sold their thousands . To this ...
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... night " long before ; in his twenty - fourth year , he was able to leave it . He went first to Rome , where his ill - health and lack of funds brought new disappointment . Later he visited the north of Italy GIACOMO LEOPARDI 111.
... night " long before ; in his twenty - fourth year , he was able to leave it . He went first to Rome , where his ill - health and lack of funds brought new disappointment . Later he visited the north of Italy GIACOMO LEOPARDI 111.
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Page 297 - And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Page 62 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
Page 210 - In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.
Page 297 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Page 346 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 295 - For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
Page 351 - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Page 345 - Take that thine is, and go thy way; I will give unto this last even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?' "So the last shall be first, and the first last; for many be called, but few chosen.
Page 298 - For the Lord •will pass through to smite the Egyptians ; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
Page 193 - Unsearchable dispose Of Highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft He seems to hide His face, But unexpectedly returns, And to His faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously ; whence Gaza mourns, And all that band them to resist His uncontrollable intent; His servants He, with new acquist Of true experience, from this great event With peace and consolation hath dismissed, And calm of mind all passion spent.