Littell's Living Age, Volume 306Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1920 |
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... spirit . Americans may have some difficulty in understanding just where this democracy begins . NEXT October the World Sunday- School Convention will meet in Tokio . It will be an international event , bringing delegates from every por ...
... spirit . Americans may have some difficulty in understanding just where this democracy begins . NEXT October the World Sunday- School Convention will meet in Tokio . It will be an international event , bringing delegates from every por ...
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... spirit of the performance . Such action as there was served mere- ly as an excuse for the décor , the music , and the gestures of the actors . Any merit that the experiment could be said to have lay just in the fact that it represented ...
... spirit of the performance . Such action as there was served mere- ly as an excuse for the décor , the music , and the gestures of the actors . Any merit that the experiment could be said to have lay just in the fact that it represented ...
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... suppose him animated by the spirit of the creature he describes . ' Cowper was not to be allowed to write , except occasionally , on magpies and cats . Mrs. Unwin , who took a thing incongruous in the boast of a wit and a 38 WILLIAM COWPER.
... suppose him animated by the spirit of the creature he describes . ' Cowper was not to be allowed to write , except occasionally , on magpies and cats . Mrs. Unwin , who took a thing incongruous in the boast of a wit and a 38 WILLIAM COWPER.
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... spirits with the story of John Gilpin . He did not write John Gilpin by request , however . He was so de- lighted on ... spirit it is written . Here is the argument in full : Self - recollection and reproof - Address to - domestic ...
... spirits with the story of John Gilpin . He did not write John Gilpin by request , however . He was so de- lighted on ... spirit it is written . Here is the argument in full : Self - recollection and reproof - Address to - domestic ...
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... spirit and treat one's self to a good square antip- athy . ' It is obvious that the cum- brous grossness of the German mind would of necessity from the first be utterly repellent to his fine and fas- tidious temper . The ' secret of ...
... spirit and treat one's self to a good square antip- athy . ' It is obvious that the cum- brous grossness of the German mind would of necessity from the first be utterly repellent to his fine and fas- tidious temper . The ' secret of ...
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Page 617 - I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear ! 'Would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin ! No news of them ? — Why, so ; — and I know not what's spent in the search.
Page 293 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In raininess made, and sees what he foresaw...
Page 539 - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Page 654 - O Thou, who Man of Baser Earth didst make, And even with Paradise devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened — Man's forgiveness give — and take!
Page 418 - Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Page 37 - I did actually live three years with Mr. Chapman, a solicitor, that is to say, I slept three years in his house ; but I lived, that is to say, I spent my days in Southampton Row, as you very well remember. There was I, and the future Lord Chancellor, constantly employed from morning to night in giggling and making giggle, instead of studying the law.
Page 44 - All the sounds that nature utters are delightful— at least in this country. I should not perhaps find the roaring of lions in Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing; but I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical, save and except always the braying of an ass.
Page 40 - she replied, " you can never be in want of a subject: — you can write upon any: — write upon this sofa!
Page 40 - The Task ' with fresh delight. I am glad you love Cowper : I could forgive a man for not enjoying Milton, but I would not call that man my friend who should be offended with the 'divine chit-chat of Cowper.
Page 38 - His humour is entirely original ; he can speak of a magpie, or a cat, in terms so exquisitely appropriated to the character he draws, that one would suppose him animated by the spirit of the creature he describes.