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... give any instructions as to interpretation . Moreover , this country is fortunate in possessing able and competent teachers , who employ different methods , perhaps , but who all lead their pupils through various means to one great end ...
... give any instructions as to interpretation . Moreover , this country is fortunate in possessing able and competent teachers , who employ different methods , perhaps , but who all lead their pupils through various means to one great end ...
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... give itself to undisturbed reflections . Yet it must be near some centre of life and trade , and espe- cially does it need to feel the power of a higher intel- lectual life surging around it and ever lifting it to nobler and grander ...
... give itself to undisturbed reflections . Yet it must be near some centre of life and trade , and espe- cially does it need to feel the power of a higher intel- lectual life surging around it and ever lifting it to nobler and grander ...
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... give them what they want . " The writers and the managers who reason in that way do not reason well . It is unfortunate that the custom of viewing the stage as an " amusement " ever prevailed ; for the stage is an institution higher and ...
... give them what they want . " The writers and the managers who reason in that way do not reason well . It is unfortunate that the custom of viewing the stage as an " amusement " ever prevailed ; for the stage is an institution higher and ...
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... give me the twine : back thy head , -back it , I tell thee , over the chair . ” " Not that , father ! not that ; the next , " cried Jonas . " What dost mean ? " proudly and impatiently said Ebenezer . " Is not the string about it ? Dost ...
... give me the twine : back thy head , -back it , I tell thee , over the chair . ” " Not that , father ! not that ; the next , " cried Jonas . " What dost mean ? " proudly and impatiently said Ebenezer . " Is not the string about it ? Dost ...
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... Give me a manly rough line , with a deal of meaning in it , rather than a whole poem full of musical periods , that have nothing but their oily smoothness to recom- mend them ! I have said thus much , as I hinted in the beginning ...
... Give me a manly rough line , with a deal of meaning in it , rather than a whole poem full of musical periods , that have nothing but their oily smoothness to recom- mend them ! I have said thus much , as I hinted in the beginning ...
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Page 623 - O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
Page 295 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 585 - customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favorite tree : Another came, nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood, was he; "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 583 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command. The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.
Page 341 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat -oppressed brain?
Page 622 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 584 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
Page 295 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Page 582 - Await alike th' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise. Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of Death...
Page 56 - On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.