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... appear together ; the two colleges cannot fail to be drawn towards each other by this bond , even though in the same list there appear Cambridge men , and Stoneyhurst men , and men from no institution at all . And the mere fact that of ...
... appear together ; the two colleges cannot fail to be drawn towards each other by this bond , even though in the same list there appear Cambridge men , and Stoneyhurst men , and men from no institution at all . And the mere fact that of ...
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... appears likewise in two successive forms ; in both of them , however , the statement of principles is substantially the same . " The endeavour " will be made to encourage and enforce an entire adherence to the simplicity of nature ...
... appears likewise in two successive forms ; in both of them , however , the statement of principles is substantially the same . " The endeavour " will be made to encourage and enforce an entire adherence to the simplicity of nature ...
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... appears in pointed shoes and Florentine hat , supporting , with too much delicacy to be graceful , a very slender damsel cor- respondingly attired , as she kneels leaning over the edge of a tank or moat to pluck a water - lily . The ...
... appears in pointed shoes and Florentine hat , supporting , with too much delicacy to be graceful , a very slender damsel cor- respondingly attired , as she kneels leaning over the edge of a tank or moat to pluck a water - lily . The ...
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... appear ridiculous , and , to say the truth , it must always be so until the English mind changes its relative estimate of imaginative and other pleasures ; for good works of art cannot be precisely cal- culated to hit the holiday mood ...
... appear ridiculous , and , to say the truth , it must always be so until the English mind changes its relative estimate of imaginative and other pleasures ; for good works of art cannot be precisely cal- culated to hit the holiday mood ...
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... appear obvious and unstudied ; the metre seems left to itself . The conception of poetry , as though it were transcription or ex- cision of casual passages from life — a direct presentation of that which exists merely for the sake of ...
... appear obvious and unstudied ; the metre seems left to itself . The conception of poetry , as though it were transcription or ex- cision of casual passages from life — a direct presentation of that which exists merely for the sake of ...
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Page 111 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast...
Page 111 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 196 - Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love. O, if Jove's will Have linked that amorous power to thy soft lay, Now timely sing, ere the rude bird of hate Foretell my hopeless doom, in some grove nigh ; 10 As thou from year to year hast sung too late For my relief, yet hadst no reason why.
Page 5 - Magazine. THE HANDBOOK OF ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM, and ACOUSTICS. New Edition. Edited by GEO. CAREY FOSTER, BA, FCS With 400 Illustrations. Post 8vo, 5^. cloth. " The book could not have been entrusted to any one better calculated to preserve the terse and lucid style of Lardner, while correcting his errors and bringing up his work to the present state of scientific knowledge.
Page 29 - It lies in heaven, across the flood Of ether, as a bridge. Beneath, the tides of day and night With flame and darkness ridge The void, as low as where this earth Spins like a fretful midge.
Page 9 - Englishman's Greek Concordance of the New Testament : Being an Attempt at a Verbal Connexion between the Greek and the English Texts ; including a Concordance to the Proper Names, with Indexes, GreekEnglish and English-Greek.
Page 21 - HODGSON -MYTHOLOGY FOR LATIN VERSIFICATION. A brief Sketch of the Fables of the Ancients, prepared to be rendered into Latin Verse for Schools.
Page 191 - Diagrams of the Nerves of the Human Body, exhibiting their Origin, Divisions, and Connexions, with their Distribution to the various Regions of the Cutaneous Surface, and to all the Muscles. By WILLIAM H.
Page 11 - OPERA, Edited by JM MARSHALL, MA Fellow and late Lecturer of Brasenose College, Oxford ; one of the Masters in Clifton College.
Page 6 - Things: Fire — Locomotion and Transport, their Influence and Progress — The Moon — Common Things : the Earth — The Electric Telegraph — Terrestrial Heat — The Sun — Earthquakes and Volcanoes — Barometer, Safety Lamp, and Whitworth's Micrometric Apparatus — Steam— The Steam Engine— The Eye— The Atmosphere— Time — Common Things...