The North American Review, Τόμος 66Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Σελίδα 59
... find that I knew their business . I told them it was because I had studied it . ' ' Ah
, cried I , that is what makes great men ; it is having successively applied their
mind to every thing ; it is because they have struggled hand to hand with
difficulties ...
... find that I knew their business . I told them it was because I had studied it . ' ' Ah
, cried I , that is what makes great men ; it is having successively applied their
mind to every thing ; it is because they have struggled hand to hand with
difficulties ...
Σελίδα 75
Crime appeared to him as a kind of mischievous fun , and Belial always reeled
into his meditations hand in hand with Momus . Blasphemy , intemperance ,
adultery , sloth , licentiousness , trickery , they were mere jests . No man ever
violated ...
Crime appeared to him as a kind of mischievous fun , and Belial always reeled
into his meditations hand in hand with Momus . Blasphemy , intemperance ,
adultery , sloth , licentiousness , trickery , they were mere jests . No man ever
violated ...
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There is so much of the man in the works of the painter , that we always seem to
have known his heart as well as his hand . A critic who could take pleasure in
repeating the calumnies that have been made to darken the early death of
Raphael ...
There is so much of the man in the works of the painter , that we always seem to
have known his heart as well as his hand . A critic who could take pleasure in
repeating the calumnies that have been made to darken the early death of
Raphael ...
Σελίδα 137
weavers . last , it must , however , be remembered , grand as the design is , and
all by his own hand , was but a pattern for tapestryIn many others , these
subordinate parts were the work of his assistants , to whom he committed too
much for his ...
weavers . last , it must , however , be remembered , grand as the design is , and
all by his own hand , was but a pattern for tapestryIn many others , these
subordinate parts were the work of his assistants , to whom he committed too
much for his ...
Σελίδα 304
ists , during the two Assemblies , he had fortune within his reach , and disdained
to open his hand ; summoned by the election to fill the post of public accuser and
judge at Paris , he had resigned and refused every thing to live in honest and ...
ists , during the two Assemblies , he had fortune within his reach , and disdained
to open his hand ; summoned by the election to fill the post of public accuser and
judge at Paris , he had resigned and refused every thing to live in honest and ...
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Σελίδα 228 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Σελίδα 442 - THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, — tliou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summerblooms may be.
Σελίδα 204 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Σελίδα 203 - Vacant their places were, or filled already by strangers. Suddenly, as if arrested by fear or a feeling of wonder, Still she stood, with her colorless lips apart, while a shudder Ran through her frame, and, forgotten, the flowerets dropped from her fingers, And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terribls anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.
Σελίδα 77 - Alike in the political and military line could be observed auctioneering ambassadors and trading generals : and thus we saw a revolution brought about by affidavits ! an army employed in executing an arrest ! a town besieged on a note of hand ! a prince dethroned for the balance of an account ! Thus it was they exhibited a government, which united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre and the little traffic of a merchant's counting-house — wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket...
Σελίδα 443 - THE CHANGELING I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To lead me gently backward To the Heavenly Father's knee, That I, by the force of nature, Might in some dim wise divine The depth of his infinite patience To this wayward soul of mine.
Σελίδα 215 - Livy. Selections from the first five books, together with the twenty-first and twenty-second books entire. With a Plan of Rome, and a Map of the Passage of Hannibal, and English Notes for the nse of Schools.
Σελίδα 68 - I've bought the best champagne from Brooks. From liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit, and a distant bill. Who, nursed in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid.
Σελίδα 211 - And with these words of cheer they arose and continued their journey. Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden wand o'er the landscape ; Twinkling...