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... course . Surely , then , if we have men like these , we need not complain that we have no great men ; are not these the greatest men ? Are not these the world's heroes ? And there is another reason which may be given , and perhaps it is ...
... course . Surely , then , if we have men like these , we need not complain that we have no great men ; are not these the greatest men ? Are not these the world's heroes ? And there is another reason which may be given , and perhaps it is ...
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... course there may be a happy combination of both , which is by far the most desirable ; for although Homer repre- sents Achilles as remarkably Todas kus , yet he never ventures for an instant to insinuate that that gentleman was in the ...
... course there may be a happy combination of both , which is by far the most desirable ; for although Homer repre- sents Achilles as remarkably Todas kus , yet he never ventures for an instant to insinuate that that gentleman was in the ...
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I allude of course to vaulting ; the worst part of which is , the difficulty of judging whether the vault be fair or no . I imagine the definition of it should be something of this kind : " That vaulting consist in clearing the pole by ...
I allude of course to vaulting ; the worst part of which is , the difficulty of judging whether the vault be fair or no . I imagine the definition of it should be something of this kind : " That vaulting consist in clearing the pole by ...
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... course of hunting and shooting , has been in some measure abated , and a more useful longing for travel has seized us . But of this a word or two . Now that it has become an almost neces- sary portion of a man's education to have ...
... course of hunting and shooting , has been in some measure abated , and a more useful longing for travel has seized us . But of this a word or two . Now that it has become an almost neces- sary portion of a man's education to have ...
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... more than half his book in being born - as I said before , they loved one another , of course one was male , and the other female , or their love would not be worth mentioning . Well , then , my hero loved 38 A TALE .
... more than half his book in being born - as I said before , they loved one another , of course one was male , and the other female , or their love would not be worth mentioning . Well , then , my hero loved 38 A TALE .
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Page 156 - Is there so small a range In the present strength of manhood, that the high Imagination cannot freely fly As she was wont of old ? prepare her steeds, Paw up against the light, and do strange deeds Upon the clouds?
Page 150 - Read from some humbler poet. Whose songs gushed from his heart. As showers from the clouds of summer. Or tears from the eyelids start; Who, through long days of labor.
Page 225 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 254 - Hey, diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon!
Page 195 - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings o'ersluide The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
Page 18 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 148 - Wrapped in furs and armed for hunting, With his mighty bow of ash-tree, With his quiver full of arrows, With his mittens, Minjekahwun, Into the vast and vacant forest On his snow-shoes strode he forward. "Gitche Manito, the Mighty!
Page 220 - Nor fear'd the chief th' unequal fight to try, Who sought no more than on his foe to die. But this bold lord, with manly strength...
Page 253 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
Page 220 - T' inclose the lock; now joins it, to divide. Ev'n then, before the fatal engine closed, A wretched sylph too fondly interposed; Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again) The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever, and for ever! Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th