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... leave their dispute to the decision of their companions , the ques- tion of right would be taken into consideration , and settled by a sort of arbitration . This plan , or a similar one , reason- ing by analogy , is likely to be adopted ...
... leave their dispute to the decision of their companions , the ques- tion of right would be taken into consideration , and settled by a sort of arbitration . This plan , or a similar one , reason- ing by analogy , is likely to be adopted ...
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... leaving be hind him the memory of a character which has been the ad- miration of all creeds and parties . In the first fury of the French Revolution , when men seemed to be governed only by their own bad passions , they ravaged the ...
... leaving be hind him the memory of a character which has been the ad- miration of all creeds and parties . In the first fury of the French Revolution , when men seemed to be governed only by their own bad passions , they ravaged the ...
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... leaves cut , a stony gaze of perplexity is fixed in the eyes , and the reader slowly moons along , becoming more and more sure that he is a victim , the author a pedant , and both of them noodles . The miserable man finds inflicted upon ...
... leaves cut , a stony gaze of perplexity is fixed in the eyes , and the reader slowly moons along , becoming more and more sure that he is a victim , the author a pedant , and both of them noodles . The miserable man finds inflicted upon ...
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for guidance , he turns his canoe westward , and passes away . He leaves his guests behind him , bidding the tribes " Listen to their words of wisdom , Listen to the truths they tell you , For the Master of Life has sent them From the ...
for guidance , he turns his canoe westward , and passes away . He leaves his guests behind him , bidding the tribes " Listen to their words of wisdom , Listen to the truths they tell you , For the Master of Life has sent them From the ...
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... leaves . The silver light Quivered a moment on the placid stream , Then sped reflected back to its far source . Through the still chambers of the sombre woods The breezes sobbed monotonous . Above In leafy homes the fall birds twittered ...
... leaves . The silver light Quivered a moment on the placid stream , Then sped reflected back to its far source . Through the still chambers of the sombre woods The breezes sobbed monotonous . Above In leafy homes the fall birds twittered ...
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Seite 306 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Seite 407 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
Seite 40 - Ye who love a nation's legends, Love the ballads of a people, That like voices from afar off Call to us to pause and listen, Speak in tones so plain and childlike, Scarcely can the ear distinguish Whether they are sung or spoken...
Seite 249 - He shall not drop." said my uncle Toby, firmly. "A-well-o'day, do what we can for him, said Trim, maintaining his point,; "the poor soul will die." "He shall not die, by G— !" cried my uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Seite 406 - With woful measures, wan Despair — Low sullen sounds his grief beguiled ; A solemn, strange, and mingled air ; Twas sad, by fits — by starts, 'twas wild.
Seite 308 - ... buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests : what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relics, or might not gladly say : Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim ? Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments.
Seite 129 - This worthless present was designed you long before it was a play; when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the dark; when the fancy was yet in its first work, moving the sleeping images of things towards the light, there to be distinguished, and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment; it was yours, my Lord, before I could call it mine.
Seite 234 - Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids? Herostratus lives that burnt the Temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it; Time hath spared the Epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal! durations; and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, then any that stand remembered in the known...
Seite 148 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Seite 233 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and spacious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...