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... appeared in 1872. Of his romance , " An Egyptian Princess , " the London Saturday Review " has this to say of its evolution and the success it subsequently met with : - " Determined , with the peculiarly characteristic German tendency ...
... appeared in 1872. Of his romance , " An Egyptian Princess , " the London Saturday Review " has this to say of its evolution and the success it subsequently met with : - " Determined , with the peculiarly characteristic German tendency ...
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... just issued a new series of postage and war - tax stamps , of various denominations . A similar issue has also appeared in Porto Rico . Ο F the five Central American repub- lics Guatemala contains FROM AN AMERICAN STANDPOINT 41.
... just issued a new series of postage and war - tax stamps , of various denominations . A similar issue has also appeared in Porto Rico . Ο F the five Central American repub- lics Guatemala contains FROM AN AMERICAN STANDPOINT 41.
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... appeared that " College Magazine , " about which he waxes so humorously pathetic in " Memories and Portraits . " He writes slightingly enough of it there , but , in truth , the essays contributed by him to its pages have much of the ...
... appeared that " College Magazine , " about which he waxes so humorously pathetic in " Memories and Portraits . " He writes slightingly enough of it there , but , in truth , the essays contributed by him to its pages have much of the ...
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... appearance , Boccaccio says : " Our poet was of middle stature , and in his advancing years stooped some- what as he walked . His demeanor was grave and composed ; his dress at that time simple and dignified , as became his age ; his ...
... appearance , Boccaccio says : " Our poet was of middle stature , and in his advancing years stooped some- what as he walked . His demeanor was grave and composed ; his dress at that time simple and dignified , as became his age ; his ...
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... appearance corresponding with his work . As he passed along , we are told , one woman whispered to another , " Eccovi l'nom ch'è stato all ' Inferno " - " There is the man who has been in hell . " The great poem , as he tells us at the ...
... appearance corresponding with his work . As he passed along , we are told , one woman whispered to another , " Eccovi l'nom ch'è stato all ' Inferno " - " There is the man who has been in hell . " The great poem , as he tells us at the ...
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Página 319 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union : on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched it may be in fraternal blood...
Página 186 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest. He is to exhibit in his portraits of nature such prominent and striking features as recall the original to every mind; and must neglect the minuter discriminations, which one may have remarked, and another have neglected, for those characteristics which...
Página 246 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember...
Página 186 - He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country ; he must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state ; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same...
Página 432 - If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe, Such boastings as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget - lest we forget!
Página 73 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Página 188 - He, gifted like the objective poet with the fuller perception of nature and man, is impelled to embody the thing he perceives, not so much with reference to the many below as to the one above him, the supreme Intelligence which apprehends all things in their absolute truth, — an ultimate view ever aspired to, if but partially attained, by the poet's own soul. Not what man sees, but what God sees — the Ideas of Plato, seeds of creation lying burningly on the Divine Hand — it is toward these...
Página 240 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 147 - Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, For the good or evil side...
Página 68 - Withal it is a silent pain too, a silent scornful one : the lip is curled in a kind of godlike disdain of the thing that is eating out his heart, — as if it were withal a mean insignificant thing, as if he whom it had power to torture and strangle were greater than it.