Harper's Anthology: ProseFrederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese Harper & Brothers, 1926 - 894 páginas A collection of literature from acclaimed authors like Thackeray, Plato, and Goethe. |
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... respect the whole family pay him , as their master's son , and the knowledge he has of the estate and greatness he is heir to , are , in my opinion , no small inconveniences in these tender years . And yet , even in this conversing with ...
... respect the whole family pay him , as their master's son , and the knowledge he has of the estate and greatness he is heir to , are , in my opinion , no small inconveniences in these tender years . And yet , even in this conversing with ...
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... respect to the sweetness of her conversation , she is ever to be admitted in all sports and entertainments . And Plato , having invited her to his feast , 1 we see after how gentle and obliging a manner , accommodated both to time and ...
... respect to the sweetness of her conversation , she is ever to be admitted in all sports and entertainments . And Plato , having invited her to his feast , 1 we see after how gentle and obliging a manner , accommodated both to time and ...
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... respect , to the former . There should then be a third crier , " O , the blockheads ! " Men are apt presently to inquire , Does such a one understand Greek or Latin ? Is he a poet ? or does he write in prose ? But whether he be grown ...
... respect , to the former . There should then be a third crier , " O , the blockheads ! " Men are apt presently to inquire , Does such a one understand Greek or Latin ? Is he a poet ? or does he write in prose ? But whether he be grown ...
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... respect of their impressionability , mobility , flexibility , under the spell of a graceful but dangerous fairy , who would not let it be other- wise . " Lest thou shouldst ponder the path of life , " says the Wise Man , " her ways are ...
... respect of their impressionability , mobility , flexibility , under the spell of a graceful but dangerous fairy , who would not let it be other- wise . " Lest thou shouldst ponder the path of life , " says the Wise Man , " her ways are ...
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... respect especially , That they have penetrated both of them into the sacred mystery of the Universe ; what Goethe calls " the open secret . " " Which is the great secret ? " asks one .- " The open secret , ” — open to all , seen by ...
... respect especially , That they have penetrated both of them into the sacred mystery of the Universe ; what Goethe calls " the open secret . " " Which is the great secret ? " asks one .- " The open secret , ” — open to all , seen by ...
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Harper's Anthology ...: Prose Frederick Alexander Manchester,William Frederic Giese Visualização integral - 1926 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
admire affection answer Anytus appear asked Athenians Athens beauty believe Benjamin Constant better birds body BOSWELL character charm Châteaubriand Coleridge Confucius conversation Crito Dante death delight divine Emerson evil eyes face father feel friendship genius Giotto give Goethe hand happy hear heard heart honor human ideas images imagination infinite JOHNSON kind learned listen live look Madame de Sévigné Madame de Staël Madame Récamier man's manner Master means Meletus mind moral Napoleon nature never night object ourselves Paganini painting passion perfect perhaps person philosopher Plato pleasure poem poet poetry poor Ralph Waldo Emerson reason seemed seen sense society Socrates song soul speak species spirit tactile talk taste tell things thou thought Thucydides tion told true truth virtue whole wise wish woman words young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 535 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 80 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath...
Página 175 - Romeo ; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Página 418 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to him?
Página 40 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Página 38 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Página 660 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 536 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!
Página 649 - I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Página 733 - And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren : and they hated him yet the more. And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed...