The Living Age, Band 213E. Littell & Company, 1897 |
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... character . Before the end of May , in the midst of his own efforts and preparation , he wrote to Lord Can- ning to point out that the desperateness of our position might be measured by the rising insolence of the natives . " It was ...
... character . Before the end of May , in the midst of his own efforts and preparation , he wrote to Lord Can- ning to point out that the desperateness of our position might be measured by the rising insolence of the natives . " It was ...
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... character , so we might well be affected by some corresponding conception of tempera- ment in great men of the past . His- torical portraits are very valuable ; the knowledge how a man's appearance impressed those who saw him is equally ...
... character , so we might well be affected by some corresponding conception of tempera- ment in great men of the past . His- torical portraits are very valuable ; the knowledge how a man's appearance impressed those who saw him is equally ...
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... character when you have only the general outlines of his life and the record of his permanent achievements . It is much more diffi- from day to day . The great mass of those projects came to nothing . Yet it is true , if we look to ...
... character when you have only the general outlines of his life and the record of his permanent achievements . It is much more diffi- from day to day . The great mass of those projects came to nothing . Yet it is true , if we look to ...
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... character , the historian cannot rival the writer of fic- tion , and historical novels are the proper mode of expressing picturesque presentation . Some historians have felt the need of a more imaginative treatment than their subject ...
... character , the historian cannot rival the writer of fic- tion , and historical novels are the proper mode of expressing picturesque presentation . Some historians have felt the need of a more imaginative treatment than their subject ...
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... characters , whose main object was to ception of human character and express themselves fully . Outward possibilities which prevailed in the circumstances gave them a favorable community from which they sprung . opportunity . They rose ...
... characters , whose main object was to ception of human character and express themselves fully . Outward possibilities which prevailed in the circumstances gave them a favorable community from which they sprung . opportunity . They rose ...
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admiration Algeciras Anne Murray asked Barenna beautiful birds Blackwood's Magazine Calle Preciados called Carlist character chest voice China Church Concepcion Concha Conyngham Corfe Castle course Crete death door doubt England English Estella eyes face fact falsetto father French garden give Greece hand head heart human idea Julia Kabul kind king knew lady Larralde laugh less letter LIVING AGE looked Lord Lord Salisbury matter ment mind nature ness never night once organic Ottoman Empire passed perhaps person Plaistow play poet poetry political poor present road Ronda round Russia seemed sentiment side smile soldiers Spain speak stood tell Templemore thet things thou thought tion told Tomsk took true ture turned village voice whole woman women word write young
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Seite 283 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
Seite 293 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too...
Seite 205 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Seite 291 - To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
Seite 291 - IN a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity: The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them; Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime.
Seite 269 - Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; and afterwards that which is spiritual.
Seite 542 - Corydon would kiss her then,. She said, maids must kiss no men, Till they did for good and all ; Then she made the shepherd- call • All the heavens to witness truth Never loved a truer youth. Thus with many a pretty oath, Yea and nay, and faith and troth, Such as...
Seite 205 - Cressid's name the very crown of falsehood, If ever she leave Troilus ! Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it.
Seite 227 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Seite 93 - Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.