The Table-talk of Shirley [pseud.]: Reminiscences of and Letters from Froude, Thackeray, Disraeli, Browning, Rossetti, Kingsley, Baynes, Huxley, Tyndall and OthersW. Blackwood, 1895 - 344 páginas |
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... never unbecoming or unworthy ) , that it seemed a pity to put them back on their shelves . I may be mistaken in thinking that they disclose new traits of tenderness , fidelity , or generosity ; but even if I am in error , the ...
... never unbecoming or unworthy ) , that it seemed a pity to put them back on their shelves . I may be mistaken in thinking that they disclose new traits of tenderness , fidelity , or generosity ; but even if I am in error , the ...
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... never written . The date and place are given- " Brantwood , 12th February 1878 " : - " Morning breaks as I write , along those Coniston Fells , and the level mist , motionless and grey beneath the rose of the moorlands , veils the lower ...
... never written . The date and place are given- " Brantwood , 12th February 1878 " : - " Morning breaks as I write , along those Coniston Fells , and the level mist , motionless and grey beneath the rose of the moorlands , veils the lower ...
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... never ascends into the pure heaven of the imagination . That the poetical style of Wordsworth is more natural and unaffected than the poetical style of Pope , may be admitted even by those who doubt whether it is as natural and ...
... never ascends into the pure heaven of the imagination . That the poetical style of Wordsworth is more natural and unaffected than the poetical style of Pope , may be admitted even by those who doubt whether it is as natural and ...
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... never read its mystery right , And yet it is childlike easy . " Of all that is here implied they knew nothing , —they were absolutely ignorant of those dim and obscure pathways of the spiritual life on which the light of common day does ...
... never read its mystery right , And yet it is childlike easy . " Of all that is here implied they knew nothing , —they were absolutely ignorant of those dim and obscure pathways of the spiritual life on which the light of common day does ...
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... never attained . Nor do I think that Mrs Oliphant has formed any quite adequate conception of the immense greatness of Keats . That this apothecary's apprentice should have given us , before he was well out of his 20 MAINLY ABOUT THE ...
... never attained . Nor do I think that Mrs Oliphant has formed any quite adequate conception of the immense greatness of Keats . That this apothecary's apprentice should have given us , before he was well out of his 20 MAINLY ABOUT THE ...
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Página 272 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
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Página 265 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Página 35 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
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Página 101 - Thither our path lies; wind we up the heights: Wait ye the warning? Our low life was the level's and the night's; He's for the morning.
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