The Oxford Book of American EssaysBrander Matthews Oxford University Press, 1914 - 508 Seiten |
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... stand corrected . I will be silent and continue my office ; take that , and that . FRANKLIN . Oh ! Ohh ! Talk on , I pray you . GOUT . No , no ; I have a good number of twinges for you to - night , and you may be sure of some more to ...
... stand corrected . I will be silent and continue my office ; take that , and that . FRANKLIN . Oh ! Ohh ! Talk on , I pray you . GOUT . No , no ; I have a good number of twinges for you to - night , and you may be sure of some more to ...
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... stands quite still , and none of the harness broke . Matters grew worse again ; the twine with which the bandbox was tied had broke in the fall , and the aforesaid wire - cap lay soaking in a nasty mudpuddle - grievous lamentations over ...
... stands quite still , and none of the harness broke . Matters grew worse again ; the twine with which the bandbox was tied had broke in the fall , and the aforesaid wire - cap lay soaking in a nasty mudpuddle - grievous lamentations over ...
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... stand by a friend in a quarrel , with life and purse , however soundly he may be cudgeled . In this last respect , to tell the truth , he has a propensity to be somewhat too ready . He is a busy - minded personage , who thinks not ...
... stand by a friend in a quarrel , with life and purse , however soundly he may be cudgeled . In this last respect , to tell the truth , he has a propensity to be somewhat too ready . He is a busy - minded personage , who thinks not ...
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... stand up for the honor of the race , and are clear that the old establishment should be kept up in all its state , whatever may be the cost ; others , who are more prudent and considerate , entreat the old gentleman to re- trench his ...
... stand up for the honor of the race , and are clear that the old establishment should be kept up in all its state , whatever may be the cost ; others , who are more prudent and considerate , entreat the old gentleman to re- trench his ...
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... stand by the old gentleman , right or wrong ; likes nothing so much as a racketing , roystering life ; and is ready at a wink or nod , to out saber , and flourish it over the orator's head , if he dares to array himself against paternal ...
... stand by the old gentleman , right or wrong ; likes nothing so much as a racketing , roystering life ; and is ready at a wink or nod , to out saber , and flourish it over the orator's head , if he dares to array himself against paternal ...
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Seite 5 - I then came home, 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 110 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou...
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 158 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
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 112 - ... however indefinite, of meaning. It is this latter, in especial, which imparts to a work of art so much of that richness (to borrow from colloquy a forcible term) which we are too fond of confounding with the ideal.
Seite 21 - AN old song made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman, who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate ; Like an old courtier of the queen's, And the queen's old courtier.
Seite 1 - We had been shown numberless skeletons of a kind of little fly, called an ephemera, whose successive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within the day. I happened to see a living company of them on a leaf, who appeared to be engaged in conversation.
Seite 203 - The poets of the kosmos advance through all interpositions and coverings and turmoils and stratagems to first principles. They are of use — they dissolve poverty from its need, and riches from its conceit. You large proprietor, they say, shall not realize or perceive more than any one else. The owner of the library is not he who holds a legal title to it, having bought and paid for it. Any one and every one is owner of the library...