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... Color of the Sky , The , T. J. J. See Books New and Old . 85 Home Life in the Seventeenth Century , S. M. Francis . 566 Stops of Various Quills , H. W. Boyn- Hour with our Prejudices , An , Samuel McChord Crothers 663 ton 119 Old Wine ...
... Color of the Sky , The , T. J. J. See Books New and Old . 85 Home Life in the Seventeenth Century , S. M. Francis . 566 Stops of Various Quills , H. W. Boyn- Hour with our Prejudices , An , Samuel McChord Crothers 663 ton 119 Old Wine ...
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... Color of the Johnson , R. Brimley , A Letter from Eng- land : The Issue of Protection . • 141 • Ketchum , Arthur , Candlemas 218 Sky Sharp , William , The Sicilian Highlands . 471 Smith , Edwin Burritt , Street Railway Legislation in ...
... Color of the Johnson , R. Brimley , A Letter from Eng- land : The Issue of Protection . • 141 • Ketchum , Arthur , Candlemas 218 Sky Sharp , William , The Sicilian Highlands . 471 Smith , Edwin Burritt , Street Railway Legislation in ...
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... beautiful land smiled at them from every field and wall . Each fresh land- scape in the panorama of their little journeys was another joy , a new excite- ment that burned in a flush of heightened color on The Common Lot . 19.
... beautiful land smiled at them from every field and wall . Each fresh land- scape in the panorama of their little journeys was another joy , a new excite- ment that burned in a flush of heightened color on The Common Lot . 19.
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... color on the girl's face . One of their last days they spent at the little village of Ravello , on a hilltop above Amalfi , and there in the clear twilight of a warm June day , with gold - tipped clouds brood- ing over the Bay of ...
... color on the girl's face . One of their last days they spent at the little village of Ravello , on a hilltop above Amalfi , and there in the clear twilight of a warm June day , with gold - tipped clouds brood- ing over the Bay of ...
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... color and quality . " In one way and an- other , then , it is honestly made to appear that Story paid the penalty of the absen- tee . But the points at which the insight of Mr. James has penetrated the less evident significances of this ...
... color and quality . " In one way and an- other , then , it is honestly made to appear that Story paid the penalty of the absen- tee . But the points at which the insight of Mr. James has penetrated the less evident significances of this ...
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Page 244 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Page 336 - Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh', in allen Wipfeln spürest du kaum einen Hauch; die Vögelein schweigen im Walde. Warte nur, balde ruhest du auch.
Page 177 - ... sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching reformation, others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Page 711 - The practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence.
Page 692 - Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music, — subtle, sweet, mournful?
Page 177 - Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas...
Page 108 - We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the last embers of daylight die, And in the trembling blue-green of the sky A moon, worn as if it had been a shell Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell About the stars and broke in days and years. I had a thought for no one's but your ears : That you were beautiful, and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love ; That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grown As weary-hearted as that hollow moon.
Page 6 - For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man : also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Page 375 - I give no alms only to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God.
Page 337 - ... ,"Go thy ways, and God bless thee, for it is not possible that the son of these tears should perish.