The Oxford Book of American EssaysOxford University Press, 1914 - 508 Seiten |
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... seen generations born , flourish , and expire . My present friends are the children and grandchildren of the friends of my youth , who are now , alas , no more ! And I must soon follow them ; for , by the course of nature , though still ...
... seen generations born , flourish , and expire . My present friends are the children and grandchildren of the friends of my youth , who are now , alas , no more ! And I must soon follow them ; for , by the course of nature , though still ...
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... seen that the harness was clean and in good order ; often observing how surprised her cousin Snip would be to see us ; and as often wondering how poor dear Miss Jenny would bear the fatigue of the journey . Thus past the night in ...
... seen that the harness was clean and in good order ; often observing how surprised her cousin Snip would be to see us ; and as often wondering how poor dear Miss Jenny would bear the fatigue of the journey . Thus past the night in ...
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... seen lolling about its walls , crawling over its lawns , dozing under its trees , or sunning them- selves upon the benches at its doors . Every office and out- house is garrisoned by these supernumeraries and their families ; for they ...
... seen lolling about its walls , crawling over its lawns , dozing under its trees , or sunning them- selves upon the benches at its doors . Every office and out- house is garrisoned by these supernumeraries and their families ; for they ...
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... seen in every quarter of the house , running in and out of their holes un- dauntedly in broad daylight . In short , John has such a reverence for everything that has been long in the family , that he will not hear even of abuses being ...
... seen in every quarter of the house , running in and out of their holes un- dauntedly in broad daylight . In short , John has such a reverence for everything that has been long in the family , that he will not hear even of abuses being ...
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... seen , that Shakspeare does to other dramatists . One player is called classical ; another makes fine points here , and another there ; Kean makes more fine points than all of them together ; but in him these are only little prominences ...
... seen , that Shakspeare does to other dramatists . One player is called classical ; another makes fine points here , and another there ; Kean makes more fine points than all of them together ; but in him these are only little prominences ...
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Seite 110 - art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore — Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Seite 112 - Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Seite 110 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not...
Seite 106 - When it most closely allies itself to Beauty; the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world...
Seite 141 - He touched the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay: And now the sun had stretched out all the hills, And now was dropt into the western bay. At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue : To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
Seite 6 - ... said I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle.
Seite 4 - I then came home, 10 and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Seite 128 - I WISH to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil, — to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.
Seite 34 - I know that all beneath the moon decays. And what by mortals in this world is brought, In time's great period shall return to nought. l know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Seite 56 - Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.