The Oxford Book of American EssaysOxford University Press, 1914 - 508 páginas |
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... universal death and destruction . I have lived seven of those hours , a great age , being no less than four hundred and twenty minutes of time . How very few of us continue so long ! I have seen generations born , flourish , and expire ...
... universal death and destruction . I have lived seven of those hours , a great age , being no less than four hundred and twenty minutes of time . How very few of us continue so long ! I have seen generations born , flourish , and expire ...
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... universal ruin ? " To me , after all my eager pursuits , no solid pleasures now remain , but the reflection of a long life spent in meaning well , the sensible conversation of a few good lady ephemeræ , and now and then a kind smile and ...
... universal ruin ? " To me , after all my eager pursuits , no solid pleasures now remain , but the reflection of a long life spent in meaning well , the sensible conversation of a few good lady ephemeræ , and now and then a kind smile and ...
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... universal harmony is in our cars , and a wide - spread beauty before our eyes , which we cannot de- fine ; yet a joy is in our hearts . Our delight increases in these , day after day , the longer we give ourselves to them , till at last ...
... universal harmony is in our cars , and a wide - spread beauty before our eyes , which we cannot de- fine ; yet a joy is in our hearts . Our delight increases in these , day after day , the longer we give ourselves to them , till at last ...
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... universal laws . Yet these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interfer- ence of love and beauty . Men used to tell us that we love flattery , even though we are not deceived by it , because it shows that we are of importance ...
... universal laws . Yet these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interfer- ence of love and beauty . Men used to tell us that we love flattery , even though we are not deceived by it , because it shows that we are of importance ...
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... universal practice , or our contemporaries . Again : it is very easy to be as wise and good as your companions . We learn of our contemporaries what they know , without effort , and almost through the pores of the skin . We catch it by ...
... universal practice , or our contemporaries . Again : it is very easy to be as wise and good as your companions . We learn of our contemporaries what they know , without effort , and almost through the pores of the skin . We catch it by ...
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Página 110 - art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore — Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Página 112 - Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Página 110 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not...
Página 106 - When it most closely allies itself to Beauty; the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world...
Página 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.
Página 6 - ... said I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle.
Página 4 - I then came home, 10 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 56 - Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.