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... feeling , you cannot mistake the explicit avowal . What distinguishes Thackeray from other English satirists is his knowledge of the world , his enjoy- ment even of the luxuries , the gauds , and the little ostentations , at which he ...
... feeling , you cannot mistake the explicit avowal . What distinguishes Thackeray from other English satirists is his knowledge of the world , his enjoy- ment even of the luxuries , the gauds , and the little ostentations , at which he ...
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... feeling prevails in Ecuador . The inhabitants of the elevated valleys of Quito and Hambato , residing round the bases of the volcanoes of Tungaragua and Cotopaxi , dread the visitation of an earthquake , when for any length of time no ...
... feeling prevails in Ecuador . The inhabitants of the elevated valleys of Quito and Hambato , residing round the bases of the volcanoes of Tungaragua and Cotopaxi , dread the visitation of an earthquake , when for any length of time no ...
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... feeling and of in these compositions new idioms and inflections to Guide to Christian Families , printed in 1749. The book was first published 9 July , 1683. " There language had attained its maturity , critics of a less society totally ...
... feeling and of in these compositions new idioms and inflections to Guide to Christian Families , printed in 1749. The book was first published 9 July , 1683. " There language had attained its maturity , critics of a less society totally ...
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... feeling can we enter into with a fish ? -a creature that increases its kind with little or no experience of the delights of mutual or parental affection ; -brings forth by thousands and hundreds of thousands at a time ; -eats its own ...
... feeling can we enter into with a fish ? -a creature that increases its kind with little or no experience of the delights of mutual or parental affection ; -brings forth by thousands and hundreds of thousands at a time ; -eats its own ...
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... feeling , as well as a selfish interest arising from considerations of profit ; but the mob of creep- ing things will secure no hold on popularity . Gould's admirable works , such as " The Birds of Europe " and " The Birds of Australia ...
... feeling , as well as a selfish interest arising from considerations of profit ; but the mob of creep- ing things will secure no hold on popularity . Gould's admirable works , such as " The Birds of Europe " and " The Birds of Australia ...
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Seite 276 - ... voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Seite 35 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Seite 185 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Seite 131 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Seite 334 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Seite 171 - Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Seite 25 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Seite 276 - And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew...
Seite 89 - The tremendous sea itself, when I could find sufficient pause to look at it, in the agitation of the blinding wind, the flying stones and sand, and the awful noise, confounded me. As the high watery walls came rolling in, and, at their highest, tumbled into surf, they looked as if the least would engulf the town.
Seite 334 - Thou faery voyager ! that dost float In such clear water, that thy boat May rather seem To brood on air than on an earthly stream ; Suspended in a stream as clear as sky, Where earth and heaven do make one imagery; 0 blessed vision ! happy child ! Thou art so exquisitely wild, 1 think of thee with many fears For what may be thy lot in future years.