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... fact that the book is edited by R. D. Sears , the champion of America , will be a great recommendation , " says the New York Sun. It is a practical work and written for Tennis players . The New York Times says truly : " The volume ...
... fact that the book is edited by R. D. Sears , the champion of America , will be a great recommendation , " says the New York Sun. It is a practical work and written for Tennis players . The New York Times says truly : " The volume ...
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... fact . The real power , the line of strength in all these essays , is in their moral apprehension , their intuitive ... facts of Baxter's life are set forth in suf- ficient detail ; but space might have been found for a few words on his ...
... fact . The real power , the line of strength in all these essays , is in their moral apprehension , their intuitive ... facts of Baxter's life are set forth in suf- ficient detail ; but space might have been found for a few words on his ...
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... fact that it was edited by Mr. Richard D. Sears , the champion lawn tennis player of America , will be a great recommendation to a small volume entitled Lawn Tennis , by Lieut . Peile . The book begins with a few hints , which will be ...
... fact that it was edited by Mr. Richard D. Sears , the champion lawn tennis player of America , will be a great recommendation to a small volume entitled Lawn Tennis , by Lieut . Peile . The book begins with a few hints , which will be ...
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... fact that Mr. H. L. Lowford , after having been invariably beaten by Mr. Renshaw , adopted the volleying tactics , and became satisfied that it is the better game . When it comes to a double game , Mr. Sears thinks that it is better for ...
... fact that Mr. H. L. Lowford , after having been invariably beaten by Mr. Renshaw , adopted the volleying tactics , and became satisfied that it is the better game . When it comes to a double game , Mr. Sears thinks that it is better for ...
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... fact , he laughs and will not believe you . But it is true that he goes to church where he will because he lives in London and not in St. Petersburg ; or , if his skin happens to be black , that he may eat and drink in peace because of ...
... fact , he laughs and will not believe you . But it is true that he goes to church where he will because he lives in London and not in St. Petersburg ; or , if his skin happens to be black , that he may eat and drink in peace because of ...
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Page 7 - Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 157 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd ; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word ; IV.
Page 148 - With a full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL With Portraits.
Page 185 - For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Page 54 - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Page 148 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland. With a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the "Thirty Years
Page 279 - Kidnapped; being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called, written by himself, and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Page 307 - THE LIGHT THAT IS FELT. A TENDER child of summers three, Seeking her little bed at night, Paused on the dark stair timidly. " Oh, mother ! Take my hand," said she, " And then the dark will all be light." We older children grope our way From dark behind to dark before ; And only when our hands we lay, Dear Lord, in Thine, the night is day, And there is darkness nevermore. Reach downward to the sunless days Wherein our guides are blind...
Page 301 - Rossetti.— A SHADOW OF DANTE : being an Essay towards studying Himself, his World, and his Pilgrimage.
Page 28 - London, a series of historical studies, intended to present in a graphic manner the stories of the different nations that have attained prominence in history. In the story form the current of each national life...