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... present generation has come at a late day upon the scene of literary action . A thorough work- ing of the ground has given to the world a common stock of thoughts , sentiments , figures and expressions , which not only may be used ...
... present generation has come at a late day upon the scene of literary action . A thorough work- ing of the ground has given to the world a common stock of thoughts , sentiments , figures and expressions , which not only may be used ...
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... present instal- ment of his dictionary is less interesting than its pre- decessors . In a work of this kind there must neces- sarily be some rather arid spaces , and it happens that the present section is altogether wanting in names of ...
... present instal- ment of his dictionary is less interesting than its pre- decessors . In a work of this kind there must neces- sarily be some rather arid spaces , and it happens that the present section is altogether wanting in names of ...
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... present chapters - there will always be an eager desire on the part of all the would - be knowing people to declare that Mr. A. or Mrs. B. must be meant for Master Corydon and Mistress Phyllis , and so injus- tice will be done and ...
... present chapters - there will always be an eager desire on the part of all the would - be knowing people to declare that Mr. A. or Mrs. B. must be meant for Master Corydon and Mistress Phyllis , and so injus- tice will be done and ...
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... present editor . Donald G. Mitchell , the predecessor of Mr. George William Curtis , was the first occupant of the Easy Chair . A Story of Sicily is announced from the pen of Miss Alice Field , a daughter of Mr. Cyrus Field . Ben Hur ...
... present editor . Donald G. Mitchell , the predecessor of Mr. George William Curtis , was the first occupant of the Easy Chair . A Story of Sicily is announced from the pen of Miss Alice Field , a daughter of Mr. Cyrus Field . Ben Hur ...
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... present at all of the contests he describes except the first one at Cowes , and is therefore a peculiarly well - prepared writer on the subject . He has aimed to make this an accurate book of reference in the pending and all future con ...
... present at all of the contests he describes except the first one at Cowes , and is therefore a peculiarly well - prepared writer on the subject . He has aimed to make this an accurate book of reference in the pending and all future con ...
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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...