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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... week of their pub- lication there came a letter to " Dr John " —the ever dear " J. B . " - in which grateful allusion was made to the half - dozen lines . Even now one wonders how he came to light upon them , or how they should have ...
... week of their pub- lication there came a letter to " Dr John " —the ever dear " J. B . " - in which grateful allusion was made to the half - dozen lines . Even now one wonders how he came to light upon them , or how they should have ...
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... weekly exercises he set us tried our metal . The Edin- burgh rhetoric class - room in the ' forties and ' fifties might have been a school of the sophists . We were generally invited to write on some classical theme- Leonidas at ...
... weekly exercises he set us tried our metal . The Edin- burgh rhetoric class - room in the ' forties and ' fifties might have been a school of the sophists . We were generally invited to write on some classical theme- Leonidas at ...
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... week . . . . You will find some capital passages and scenes in it . Perhaps the chief fault is that it is too good , too poetical . Some of the lines are remarkably fine those about the moon , for instance ; and what 1 Edward Frederick ...
... week . . . . You will find some capital passages and scenes in it . Perhaps the chief fault is that it is too good , too poetical . Some of the lines are remarkably fine those about the moon , for instance ; and what 1 Edward Frederick ...
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... week as usual . I saw Frank Rus- sell several times , and one night met at his rooms Dr Carlyle ( the translator of Dante ) , who looks and talks wonderfully like his brother , only just a little milder . " [ Towards the close of 1856 ...
... week as usual . I saw Frank Rus- sell several times , and one night met at his rooms Dr Carlyle ( the translator of Dante ) , who looks and talks wonderfully like his brother , only just a little milder . " [ Towards the close of 1856 ...
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... week , you know . This was to be expected at any time , and I knew he was worse ; still it came like a shock . It was no surprise to him . For a long time he had worked on at his post in the immediate presence of death , waiting calmly ...
... week , you know . This was to be expected at any time , and I knew he was worse ; still it came like a shock . It was no surprise to him . For a long time he had worked on at his post in the immediate presence of death , waiting calmly ...
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Página 117 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
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.
Página 5 - BLACKIE. Lays and Legends of Ancient Greece. By JOHN STUART BLACKIE, Emeritus Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. Second Edition. Fcap.
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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.
Página 4 - Edition. 8vo, 7s. 6d. The Principles of Singing. A Practical Guide for Vocalists and Teachers. With Course of Vocal Exercises. Crown 8vo, 6s.
Página 11 - ELIOT. George Eliot's Life, Related in her Letters and Journals. Arranged and Edited by her husband, JW CROSS.
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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