Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volumen 15Charles Dudley Warner International Society, 1896 |
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... speaking of its tune , which is carried in every direction - are easily lost . Such a lyric lives chiefly by its sentiment , and sentiment is a fragile burden . We can however get some notion of this communal song by process of ...
... speaking of its tune , which is carried in every direction - are easily lost . Such a lyric lives chiefly by its sentiment , and sentiment is a fragile burden . We can however get some notion of this communal song by process of ...
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... speak for itself , whilst a bad one demands an able counselor to give it a color . Serjeant - Very well . to the lawyer himself ? But in what respects will this answer Jack - In a twofold way . Firstly , his fees will be large in ...
... speak for itself , whilst a bad one demands an able counselor to give it a color . Serjeant - Very well . to the lawyer himself ? But in what respects will this answer Jack - In a twofold way . Firstly , his fees will be large in ...
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... speak of his mediæval romances as « full of sweet strength and lovely virtue . " Others say " the heroes are almost absurd , and do not arouse enthusiasm . " Heine asserts that Fouqué's laurel is genuine ; Coleridge places him above ...
... speak of his mediæval romances as « full of sweet strength and lovely virtue . " Others say " the heroes are almost absurd , and do not arouse enthusiasm . " Heine asserts that Fouqué's laurel is genuine ; Coleridge places him above ...
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... speaking of Undine as his wife . The knight was himself indeed just as little pleased with Un- dine's childish behavior as the rest ; but all his looks and half- reproachful words were to no purpose . It is true , whenever the bride ...
... speaking of Undine as his wife . The knight was himself indeed just as little pleased with Un- dine's childish behavior as the rest ; but all his looks and half- reproachful words were to no purpose . It is true , whenever the bride ...
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... speaking , he left the apartment ; and the fisherman with his wife followed him , crossing themselves . Undine had sunk upon her knees . She uncovered her face , and exclaimed , while she looked fearfully round upon Huldbrand , " Alas ...
... speaking , he left the apartment ; and the fisherman with his wife followed him , crossing themselves . Undine had sunk upon her knees . She uncovered her face , and exclaimed , while she looked fearfully round upon Huldbrand , " Alas ...
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Página 5959 - I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbid myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as certainly...
Página 5946 - The small progress we have made after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, — our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, — is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We, indeed, seem to feel our own want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different...
Página 5942 - They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows: " Friends," says he, " the taxes are, indeed, very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us.
Página 5955 - I cross'd these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column...
Página 5934 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Página 5946 - I had made of the sense of all ages and nations. However, I resolved to be the better for the echo of it, and though I had at first determined to buy stuff for a new coat, I went away resolved to wear my old one a little longer.
Página 5946 - I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men.
Página 5956 - Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Página 6129 - He studieth his scholars' natures as carefully as they their books; and ranks their dispositions into several forms. And though it may seem difficult for him in a great school to descend to all particulars, yet experienced schoolmasters may quickly make a grammar of boys' natures, and reduce them all — saving some few exceptions — to these general rules : 1.
Página 5929 - The next observed, that the word makes might as well be omitted, because his customers would not care who made the hats; if good, and to their mind, they would buy, by whomsoever made. He struck it out. A third said he thought the words for ready money, were useless, as it was not the custom of the place to sell on credit.