The Book Buyer, Volumen7Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890 A review and record of current literature. |
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... Poet Laureate , 57 Poetry , Collections of , 452 Imaginative , 30 Poet's Year , Adams , 511 Political Science Quarterly , 81 Pope and New Era , Stead , 171 , 174 Portraits of Friends , 26 Preaching , Philosophy of , Behrends , 168 ...
... Poet Laureate , 57 Poetry , Collections of , 452 Imaginative , 30 Poet's Year , Adams , 511 Political Science Quarterly , 81 Pope and New Era , Stead , 171 , 174 Portraits of Friends , 26 Preaching , Philosophy of , Behrends , 168 ...
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... Poet , 304 Wednesday the Tenth , Grant , 525 Wells , K. G , Two Modern Women , 325 Wendell , B. , 325 West Indies , Hearn , 115 Whirlwind in Petticoats , 176 White , H. , 496 White Horse , 15 White Mountains , Ward , 336 Whither , O ...
... Poet , 304 Wednesday the Tenth , Grant , 525 Wells , K. G , Two Modern Women , 325 Wendell , B. , 325 West Indies , Hearn , 115 Whirlwind in Petticoats , 176 White , H. , 496 White Horse , 15 White Mountains , Ward , 336 Whither , O ...
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... poet . It is charmingly written and full of interest . Though it extends to seventy pages , the reader will not find there is a page too much for his enjoyment and appreciation . It is no easy task to make a selection from Prior , but ...
... poet . It is charmingly written and full of interest . Though it extends to seventy pages , the reader will not find there is a page too much for his enjoyment and appreciation . It is no easy task to make a selection from Prior , but ...
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... poet's work as lent themselves , through the free play of the imagination and fancy , to the uses of his art . " The close , con- centrated beauty of a few rhythmical words flowing into perfect idyl through the fitness and force of the ...
... poet's work as lent themselves , through the free play of the imagination and fancy , to the uses of his art . " The close , con- centrated beauty of a few rhythmical words flowing into perfect idyl through the fitness and force of the ...
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... poet and a painter of the most delicate and suggestive word - pictures . He has the eye of an artist for the salient ... poetic fancy of the author . Loti left Tangier with the French Minister and an escort for a twelve days ' journey on ...
... poet and a painter of the most delicate and suggestive word - pictures . He has the eye of an artist for the salient ... poetic fancy of the author . Loti left Tangier with the French Minister and an escort for a twelve days ' journey on ...
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Página 591 - There is no death! The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for evermore. There is no death!
Página 86 - Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it, Come then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air ; Choose a firm cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Página 371 - THE VIKING AGE. The' Early History, Manners, and Customs of the Ancestors of the English-Speaking Nations.
Página 595 - THE GENESIS OF THE UNITED STATES. A Narrative of the Movement in England, 1605-1616, which resulted in the Plantation of North America by Englishmen, disclosing the Contest between England and Spain for the Possession of the Soil now occupied by the United States of America; set forth through a series of Historical Manuscripts now first printed, together with a Re-issue of Rare Contemporaneous Tracts, accompanied by Bibliographical Memoranda, Notes, and Brief Biographies.
Página 441 - These are the days when birds come back, A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. These are the days when skies put on The old, old sophistries of June, A blue and gold mistake. Oh, fraud that cannot cheat the bee, Almost thy plausibility Induces my belief, Till ranks of seeds their witness bear, And softly through the altered air Hurries a timid leaf! Oh, sacrament of summer days, Oh, last communion in the...
Página 10 - He has an admirable natural love of truth, the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy, the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn. His wit is wonderfully wise and detective; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern.
Página 9 - All the literature of knowledge builds only ground-nests, that are swept away by floods, or confounded by the plough; but the literature of power builds nests in aerial altitudes of temples sacred from violation, or of forests inaccessible to fraud. This is a great prerogative of the power literature; and it is a greater which lies in the mode of its influence. The knowledge literature, like the fashion of this world, passeth away. An...
Página 311 - THE LIGHT OF ASIA ; or, THE GREAT RENUNCIATION (Mahabhinishkramana). Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India, and Founder of Buddhism (as told in verse by an Indian Buddhist). By Edwin Arnold, MA, CSI , &c.
Página 420 - She once told her sisters that they were wrong — even morally wrong — in making their heroines beautiful as a matter of course. They replied that it was impossible to make a heroine interesting on any other terms.
Página 32 - Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen. Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers...