Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 7Robert Chambers Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 - English literature |
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Page 109
... live in deeds , not years ; in thoughts , not breaths ; In feelings , not in figures on a dial . We should count time by heart - throbs . He most lives , Who thinks most , feels the noblest . acts the best . And he whose heart beats ...
... live in deeds , not years ; in thoughts , not breaths ; In feelings , not in figures on a dial . We should count time by heart - throbs . He most lives , Who thinks most , feels the noblest . acts the best . And he whose heart beats ...
Page 190
... live so long . He was a man of that unsleeping spirit , He seemed to live by miracle : his food Was glory , which was poison to his mind , And peril to his body . He was one Of many thousand such that die betimes , Whose story is a ...
... live so long . He was a man of that unsleeping spirit , He seemed to live by miracle : his food Was glory , which was poison to his mind , And peril to his body . He was one Of many thousand such that die betimes , Whose story is a ...
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... live to see the fiftieth year from the date of that act ; that they should complete that year ; and that then , on ... live , and live for ever . They live in all that perpetuates the remembrance of men on earth ; in the recorded proofs ...
... live to see the fiftieth year from the date of that act ; that they should complete that year ; and that then , on ... live , and live for ever . They live in all that perpetuates the remembrance of men on earth ; in the recorded proofs ...
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