Passages from the Life of Charles KnightG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874 - 480 páginas |
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... becoming more original and more influential . I also gained some insight into the general commerce of books in that closing era of high prices . During this period one of the pleasantest occupations of my Windsor life opened to me , as ...
... becoming more original and more influential . I also gained some insight into the general commerce of books in that closing era of high prices . During this period one of the pleasantest occupations of my Windsor life opened to me , as ...
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... of the reading made cheap , was not suited to the habits in which I had been so long trained . But I had still to look for happiness in work . I had to become more a writer and editor than a publisher . A few PREFACE . ix.
... of the reading made cheap , was not suited to the habits in which I had been so long trained . But I had still to look for happiness in work . I had to become more a writer and editor than a publisher . A few PREFACE . ix.
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... become intimate with many who were eminent in the imagi- native walks of Literature ; and I learnt , more com- pletely than I knew before , that it is not only the scientific and the philosophical who are advancing , by their writings ...
... become intimate with many who were eminent in the imagi- native walks of Literature ; and I learnt , more com- pletely than I knew before , that it is not only the scientific and the philosophical who are advancing , by their writings ...
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... becoming constantly feebler , more and more entirely dependent on those around him , slowly wore away these latter ... become indifferent now to place or scene ; the days of his fourscore years were in " their strength but labour and ...
... becoming constantly feebler , more and more entirely dependent on those around him , slowly wore away these latter ... become indifferent now to place or scene ; the days of his fourscore years were in " their strength but labour and ...
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... become the inheritance of all ; " or , as he expressed it in one of the last pages which he wrote with his own hand , * in the outset of life he formed the " desire to make knowledge a common possession instead of an exclusive privilege ...
... become the inheritance of all ; " or , as he expressed it in one of the last pages which he wrote with his own hand , * in the outset of life he formed the " desire to make knowledge a common possession instead of an exclusive privilege ...
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Página 277 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd; But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it. This thou would'st say, 'Your son did thus and thus; Your brother thus; so fought the noble Douglas...
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Página 401 - A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear : change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Página 245 - I think you've picked up truth by bits ' From foreigner and neighbour, I think the world has lost its wits, And you have lost your labour. " I think the studies of the wise, The hero's noisy quarrel, The majesty of woman's eyes, The poet's cherish'd laurel ; And all that makes us lean or fat, And all that charms or troubles, — This bubble is more bright than that, But still they all are bubbles.
Página 401 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.