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... less obscured . Like flaws in glass , their imperfections of character may sometimes produce distorted images . In literature , as in mining , even in the richest of mines , the sands of error must be washed from the pure gold of truth ...
... less obscured . Like flaws in glass , their imperfections of character may sometimes produce distorted images . In literature , as in mining , even in the richest of mines , the sands of error must be washed from the pure gold of truth ...
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... less susceptible to tender influences . It was by the Gaelic Kelts that Christianity was first carried into Scotland . It has been clearly shown that when Pope Gregory sent the Italian Augustine as a mis- sionary to the South of England ...
... less susceptible to tender influences . It was by the Gaelic Kelts that Christianity was first carried into Scotland . It has been clearly shown that when Pope Gregory sent the Italian Augustine as a mis- sionary to the South of England ...
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... less extent throughout Europe . Chaucer was acquainted with the Italian poets , and their influence can be detected in his verse . The English poets that succeeded Chaucer were devoted admirers of his style , and imitated him ; but they ...
... less extent throughout Europe . Chaucer was acquainted with the Italian poets , and their influence can be detected in his verse . The English poets that succeeded Chaucer were devoted admirers of his style , and imitated him ; but they ...
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... less than forty years . There was then a very wide - spread effort to correct the errors found in that version , and to pro- duce other versions that should be more true to the original text in which the Bible had been written . But all ...
... less than forty years . There was then a very wide - spread effort to correct the errors found in that version , and to pro- duce other versions that should be more true to the original text in which the Bible had been written . But all ...
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... less in public life , he might have done more for philosophy and science ; but he coveted wealth and rank as a means of making his ' philosophy popular . His writings have awakened . thought and done much good . " He turned the ...
... less in public life , he might have done more for philosophy and science ; but he coveted wealth and rank as a means of making his ' philosophy popular . His writings have awakened . thought and done much good . " He turned the ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admired Alexander Pope beauty behold beneath better Bible bless breath Cædmon century character charm clouds Cowper Daniel Defoe dark delight Describe Dryden earnest earth England English excellent eyes feel flowers genius gift give grace hand Harriet Beecher Stowe hath hear heart heaven Henry Hart Milman Horace Walpole human influence intellect Isaac Barrow Isaac Watts John Greenleaf Whittier John Milton JOSEPH ADDISON labor Lake Poets language light literary literature live look Lord mankind Milton mind moral morning mountains nature ness never night o'er Oliver Goldsmith period philosopher poems poet poetic poetry praise produced prose prose-writers readers religion religious scarcely seems sleep smile song soul sound speak spirit stream style sweet Tatler thee things Thomas Hood thou thought tion true truth voice William wind words writings written wrote
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Página 434 - Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight. " Halt ! "• — the dust-brown ranks stood fast.
Página 277 - I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air...
Página 276 - That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn...
Página 418 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Página 275 - The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Página 320 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such...
Página 416 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Página 276 - This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea; Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills Over the lakes and the plains, Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream, The Spirit he loves remains; And I all the while bask in Heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains. The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes, And his burning plumes outspread...
Página 417 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place...
Página 76 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.