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... fancy we do appreciate Art ) ; the latter of these views we shall charitably suppose to be the general case ; and this characteristic of that class of us , who lay claim at all to the literary , strikes us as one of those most offensive ...
... fancy we do appreciate Art ) ; the latter of these views we shall charitably suppose to be the general case ; and this characteristic of that class of us , who lay claim at all to the literary , strikes us as one of those most offensive ...
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... Old men had handed the stories down to their children , and the tradition of the prowess of Oxen- ham and Drake was fresh as ever in the reign of Queen Anne . The scheme caught every one's fancy , crowds 106 POPULAR EXCITEMENTS .
... Old men had handed the stories down to their children , and the tradition of the prowess of Oxen- ham and Drake was fresh as ever in the reign of Queen Anne . The scheme caught every one's fancy , crowds 106 POPULAR EXCITEMENTS .
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Anne . The scheme caught every one's fancy , crowds rushed to join a plan which agreed with every one's ideas , and promised at least a certain guaranteed interest . In the year 1719 , the fifth of the reign of King George I. an act was ...
Anne . The scheme caught every one's fancy , crowds rushed to join a plan which agreed with every one's ideas , and promised at least a certain guaranteed interest . In the year 1719 , the fifth of the reign of King George I. an act was ...
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... fancy play us very false . They were in- deed a wonderful race , those poet - nobles of Provence , with their wild romantic lives and hot passions , and their literature that seems to spring up full grown , without an infancy or youth ...
... fancy play us very false . They were in- deed a wonderful race , those poet - nobles of Provence , with their wild romantic lives and hot passions , and their literature that seems to spring up full grown , without an infancy or youth ...
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... fancy turned lightly to thoughts of love , and his thoughts expressed themselves in poetry . Like a gallant open - hearted gentleman as he was , his house he ever kept open for the reception of the brothers of his gay science ; and many ...
... fancy turned lightly to thoughts of love , and his thoughts expressed themselves in poetry . Like a gallant open - hearted gentleman as he was , his house he ever kept open for the reception of the brothers of his gay science ; and many ...
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Abdallah Aristophanes beauty Bigside Book of Rugby called character colour Countess of Tripoli Cratinus cricket dear death Dormer dread dream Dress England English excitement eyes fancy father feeling fellow football give hand happy hath head hear heard heart Henry VIII honour hope Imagination Jauffre JOHN BRIGHT King lady land larvæ live look master mind nature never night noble novels o'er OLD RUGBEIAN once passed passion perhaps pleasure poem poet poetry praise Priceite Provençal Queen readers Rugby School Sabbatarian seemed song sorrow soul spirit style sure sweet swell table-turning tell thee thing thou thought tion Titus Oates Tom Brown trireme true turn Vergniaud voice watch water-tower ween wish wonder words writing young youth ἄρ δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε
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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