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You could n't find better reading , young man . Scott is my favorite au- thor . A great man . I have got his likeness in a gilt frame hanging up in the other room . I have read him all through three times . " The young man's countenance ...
You could n't find better reading , young man . Scott is my favorite au- thor . A great man . I have got his likeness in a gilt frame hanging up in the other room . I have read him all through three times . " The young man's countenance ...
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We thought the hero something of a bore , with his patience and goodness ; and as for the heroine , pursued by the attentions of the rich profligate , we doubted if she were any better than she should be .
We thought the hero something of a bore , with his patience and goodness ; and as for the heroine , pursued by the attentions of the rich profligate , we doubted if she were any better than she should be .
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You are not obliged to know me better than I know myself . It's just like you to be ready to take back that bad word , and try to make yourself believe that it was unjust . But it was perfectly just , and therefore I have managed to ...
You are not obliged to know me better than I know myself . It's just like you to be ready to take back that bad word , and try to make yourself believe that it was unjust . But it was perfectly just , and therefore I have managed to ...
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... the dismemberments of his furniture ; and although by no means absurdly fastidious in the matter of household elegance , she could not but think that Richard would be a happier and a better man if he were a little more comfortable .
... the dismemberments of his furniture ; and although by no means absurdly fastidious in the matter of household elegance , she could not but think that Richard would be a happier and a better man if he were a little more comfortable .
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You ' d better go home and go to bed , " he said . " You'll make yourself ill by going on at this rate . " " I - I'm afraid to go home , " said Richard , in a broken voice . " For God's sake , come with me ! " — and the wretched fellow ...
You ' d better go home and go to bed , " he said . " You'll make yourself ill by going on at this rate . " " I - I'm afraid to go home , " said Richard , in a broken voice . " For God's sake , come with me ! " — and the wretched fellow ...
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Page 252 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 425 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 109 - Yes, trust them not; for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that, with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you, and being an absolute Johannes factotum is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 215 - BY the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead ; — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day ; — Under the one, the Blue ; Under the other, the Gray.
Page 253 - Leave me ! There's something come into my thought, That must and shall be sung high and aloof \ Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof.
Page 30 - ... clime, And spreads the honey of his deep research At his return — a rich repast for me. He travels, and I too. I tread his deck, Ascend his topmast, through his peering eyes Discover countries, with a kindred heart Suffer his woes, and share in his escapes ; While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
Page 109 - Shakespeare's poems the creative power and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace. Each in its excess of strength seems to threaten the extinction of the other. At length in the drama they were reconciled, and fought each with its shield before the breast of the other.
Page 216 - Sadly, but not with upbraiding, The generous deed was done, In the storm of the years that are fading, No braver battle was won . Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Under the blossoms, the Blue, Under the garlands, the Gray.
Page 215 - From the silence of sorrowful hours The desolate mourners go, Lovingly laden with flowers Alike for the friend and the foe ; — Under the sod and the clew, Waiting the judgment day ; — Under the roses, the Blue ; Under the lilies, the Gray.
Page 164 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.