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... observation in the trivial emotions and passing impulses - the wandering lights and shadows of the soul -- that chequer and agitate our daily life . With an almost Protean power of reproduction , the genius of the author flings itself ...
... observation in the trivial emotions and passing impulses - the wandering lights and shadows of the soul -- that chequer and agitate our daily life . With an almost Protean power of reproduction , the genius of the author flings itself ...
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... observing that it is not an easy matter to select portions from a work in which characters , incidents , and events are blended together in one continued narrative . Our readers are , we trust , too well acquainted with Mr. Prescott's ...
... observing that it is not an easy matter to select portions from a work in which characters , incidents , and events are blended together in one continued narrative . Our readers are , we trust , too well acquainted with Mr. Prescott's ...
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... observing that Philip had gradually gained credit with the people . Philip , from the hour of his landing , had been con- stant in all his religious observances . " He was as punctual , " says Micheli , " in bis attendance at mass , and ...
... observing that Philip had gradually gained credit with the people . Philip , from the hour of his landing , had been con- stant in all his religious observances . " He was as punctual , " says Micheli , " in bis attendance at mass , and ...
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... observation , and , conse- quently , makes us long for a more complete and comprehensive volume . This wish it has been the endeavour of Mr. Hogg to supply in the work referred to at the head of this article : would that the execution ...
... observation , and , conse- quently , makes us long for a more complete and comprehensive volume . This wish it has been the endeavour of Mr. Hogg to supply in the work referred to at the head of this article : would that the execution ...
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... observations , he might have made a useful book , although we would much rather have dis- pensed with any original matter from his pen . Had he further taken up the excellent works of Dr. Carpenter , his " Zoology , " and his " Vege ...
... observations , he might have made a useful book , although we would much rather have dis- pensed with any original matter from his pen . Had he further taken up the excellent works of Dr. Carpenter , his " Zoology , " and his " Vege ...
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Seite 18 - It was not her time to love ; beside, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little...
Seite 18 - I loved you, Evelyn, all the while ! My heart seemed full as it could hold ; There was place and to spare for the frank young smile, And the red young mouth, and the hair's young gold. So, hush, — I will give you this leaf to keep : See, I shut it inside the sweet cold hand ! There, that is our secret : go to sleep ! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
Seite 18 - EVELYN HOPE Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead ! Sit and watch by her side an hour. That is her book-shelf, this her bed; She plucked that piece of geranium-flower, Beginning to die too, in the glass; Little has yet been changed, I think : The shutters are shut, no light may pass Save two long rays through the hinge's chink.
Seite 230 - But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
Seite 19 - A moment after, and hands unseen Were hanging the night around us fast; But we knew that a bar was broken between Life and life: we were mixed at last In spite of the mortal screen.
Seite 27 - WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on...
Seite 205 - On the whole, we make too much of faults; the details of the business hide the real centre of it. Faults ? The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Seite 264 - ANALOGUE." — A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal. " HOMOLOGUE." — The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function f.
Seite 17 - Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woe Long ago; Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame Struck them tame; And that glory and that shame alike, the gold Bought and sold.
Seite 19 - Be hate that fruit or love that fruit, It forwards the general deed of man, And each of the Many helps to recruit The life of the race by a general plan ; Each living his own, to boot.