The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 1Kaiser, 1900 - American essays |
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... doth not behave itself unseemly , " " is not easily pro- voked , " » « thinketh no evil . " If we wish to know what this means not merely in spirit , but in its effects on style , we have only to com- pare one of Addison's essays with ...
... doth not behave itself unseemly , " " is not easily pro- voked , " » « thinketh no evil . " If we wish to know what this means not merely in spirit , but in its effects on style , we have only to com- pare one of Addison's essays with ...
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... him against the greatness of the thought : - " Then leaving life , Earl Percy took The dead man by the hand , And said , ' Earl Douglas , for thy life Would I had lost my land . ' " O Christ ! my very heart doth bleed With 46 JOSEPH ...
... him against the greatness of the thought : - " Then leaving life , Earl Percy took The dead man by the hand , And said , ' Earl Douglas , for thy life Would I had lost my land . ' " O Christ ! my very heart doth bleed With 46 JOSEPH ...
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David Josiah Brewer. " O Christ ! my very heart doth bleed With sorrow for thy sake ; For sure a more renownéd knight Mischance did never take . >> That beautiful line , " Taking the dead man by the hand , " will put the reader in mind ...
David Josiah Brewer. " O Christ ! my very heart doth bleed With sorrow for thy sake ; For sure a more renownéd knight Mischance did never take . >> That beautiful line , " Taking the dead man by the hand , " will put the reader in mind ...
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... doth Earl Douglas come , His men in armor bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears , All marching in our sight . " All men of pleasant Tividale , Fast by the river Tweed , " etc. -Dryden . The country of the Scotch warrior ...
... doth Earl Douglas come , His men in armor bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears , All marching in our sight . " All men of pleasant Tividale , Fast by the river Tweed , " etc. -Dryden . The country of the Scotch warrior ...
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... doth let loose his son to all experiences is most like a fond hunter that letteth slip a whelp to the whole herd . Twenty to one he shall fall upon a rascal and let go the fair game . Men that hunt so be either ignorant persons , privy ...
... doth let loose his son to all experiences is most like a fond hunter that letteth slip a whelp to the whole herd . Twenty to one he shall fall upon a rascal and let go the fair game . Men that hunt so be either ignorant persons , privy ...
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Page 233 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 62 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 234 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 1 - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Page 313 - Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other (much too high for a heathen), "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God.
Page 309 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 99 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Page 72 - Square: it is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love, by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him. Before this disappointment, Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman, had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege,' fought a duel upon his first coming to town, and kicked bully Dawson in a public coffee-house for calling him youngster.
Page 336 - Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises.
Page 389 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.