The Bookman, Volumen 1

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Dodd, Mead and Company, 1895

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Página 125 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we, Of many far wiser than we ; And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
Página xxx - Here — here's his place, where meteors shoot, clouds form, Lightnings are loosened, Stars come and go! let joy break with the storm — Peace let the dew send! Lofty designs must close in like effects: Loftily lying, Leave him — still loftier than the world suspects, Living and dying.
Página 167 - To him wild shadows are shown, Deep under deep unknown And height above unknown height. Still we say as we go, — "Strange to think by the way, Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.
Página 87 - Ce qu'il nous faut, à nous, c'est, aux lueurs des lampes, La science conquise et le sommeil dompté, C'est le front dans les mains du vieux Faust des estampes, C'est l'Obstination et c'est la Volonté...
Página xxii - A History of Our Own Times, from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880. Four Vols. demy Svo, cloth extra, 12s. each. — Also a POPULAR EDITION, in Four Vols. crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s. each. A Short History of Our Own Times.
Página 156 - Le remarquable est que. pour la première fois, au cours de l'histoire littéraire d'aucun peuple, concurremment aux grandes orgues générales et séculaires, où s'exalte, d'après un latent clavier, l'orthodoxie, quiconque avec son jeu et son ouïe individuels se peut composer un instrument, dès qu'il souffle, le frôle ou frappe avec science ; en user à part et le dédier aussi à la langue.
Página 144 - LL.D., Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the University of Cambridge.
Página 16 - Tells us his misery's birth and growth and signs, And how the dying spark of hope was fed, And how the breast was soothed, and how the head, And all his hourly varied anodynes.
Página 23 - LIFE'S HANDICAP' MY new-cut ashlar takes the light Where crimson-blank the windows flare ; By my own work, before the night, Great Overseer I make my prayer. If there be good in that I wrought, Thy hand compelled it, Master, Thine ; Where I have failed to meet Thy thought I know, through Thee, the blame is mine.
Página 163 - I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collections of hints into confusion...

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