One Look BackW. Gardner, Darton & Company, Limited, 1911 - 368 páginas |
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... fresh interest in me . I began to understand the Democratic , as against the Whig , ideal ; and I was tremendously im- pressed by Disraeli , who seemed to tower by a head and shoulders above everyone in the House . Gladstone BEGINNINGS 15.
... fresh interest in me . I began to understand the Democratic , as against the Whig , ideal ; and I was tremendously im- pressed by Disraeli , who seemed to tower by a head and shoulders above everyone in the House . Gladstone BEGINNINGS 15.
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... seemed to my boyish eyes , when I first saw him in 1867 , nor how unlike what one had imagined a Head - master to be . He was then just thirty - four and looked much younger than he was . Gracefulness is the idea which I specially ...
... seemed to my boyish eyes , when I first saw him in 1867 , nor how unlike what one had imagined a Head - master to be . He was then just thirty - four and looked much younger than he was . Gracefulness is the idea which I specially ...
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... seemed to have escaped him , and he loved poetry as much as Butler loved ora- tory . When he preached in Chapel his gorgeous rhetoric , as yet not overwrought or over - coloured , held us spellbound ; and though , or perhaps be- cause ...
... seemed to have escaped him , and he loved poetry as much as Butler loved ora- tory . When he preached in Chapel his gorgeous rhetoric , as yet not overwrought or over - coloured , held us spellbound ; and though , or perhaps be- cause ...
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... seemed too absurd for credence , delivered from the School- pulpit , in a kind of solemn stage - whisper . How- ever , " Tommy Steel " was a kind - hearted old gen- tleman , who believed in letting boys alone , and by a hundred ...
... seemed too absurd for credence , delivered from the School- pulpit , in a kind of solemn stage - whisper . How- ever , " Tommy Steel " was a kind - hearted old gen- tleman , who believed in letting boys alone , and by a hundred ...
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... seemed to present some elements of unlikelihood , and yet it survived from generation to generation ; for not otherwise could we account for the palpable fact that the iron se- verity which held all boy - flesh in awe melted into ...
... seemed to present some elements of unlikelihood , and yet it survived from generation to generation ; for not otherwise could we account for the palpable fact that the iron se- verity which held all boy - flesh in awe melted into ...
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Página 153 - We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge but grieving ? He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving ? He may live without love, — what is passion but pining ? But where is the man that can live without dining ? XX.
Página 92 - Or will you, youths of England, make your country again a royal throne of kings; a sceptred isle,* for all the world a source of light, a centre of peace...
Página 8 - We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, — if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows — the same redbreasts that we used to call " God's birds," because they did no harm to the precious crops.
Página 45 - There is a spot in the churchyard, near the footpath, on the brow of the hill looking towards Windsor, and a tomb under a large tree (bearing the name of Peachie, or Peachey), where I used to sit for hours and hours when a boy. This was my favourite spot...
Página 92 - There is a destiny now possible to us, the highest ever set before a nation to be accepted or refused. We are still undegenerate in race; a race mingled of the best northern blood.
Página 180 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
Página 106 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Página 232 - Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood ; Stern patriots, who for sacred freedom stood ; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given ; And saints, who taught, and led, the way to heaven.
Página 328 - Let no man think that sudden in a minute all is accomplished and the work is done; — Though with thine earliest dawn thou shouldst begin it scarce were it ended in thy setting sun.
Página 104 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth; so to be patriots, as not to forget that we are gentlemen.