The Living Age, Volume 308Living Age Company, 1921 - Literature |
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... important seaport in the Levant . An unusually enlightened and well - edu- cated man , he associated much with Europeans ; and from early life I have been familiar with the Greek , French , and Italian languages . He died when I was ...
... important seaport in the Levant . An unusually enlightened and well - edu- cated man , he associated much with Europeans ; and from early life I have been familiar with the Greek , French , and Italian languages . He died when I was ...
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... important historical occasions ? Was its absence due to the chilly November weather ? Or are the common people of France , like those of Germany , weary of warlike displays ? When the column crossed Pont de la Concorde and turned into ...
... important historical occasions ? Was its absence due to the chilly November weather ? Or are the common people of France , like those of Germany , weary of warlike displays ? When the column crossed Pont de la Concorde and turned into ...
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... important languages of the Medi- terranean and Near East . On those grounds , and on no others , these lan- guages should be learned . As to the literature locked up in classical Latin and Greek , translations fortunately pullulate of ...
... important languages of the Medi- terranean and Near East . On those grounds , and on no others , these lan- guages should be learned . As to the literature locked up in classical Latin and Greek , translations fortunately pullulate of ...
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... important . He must have been kind to me ; but I know I often thought him a beast . He taught me to make paper boats , and for years I kept a glass marble he picked up and brought home to me . Good old Murphy ! I lost it somewhere in ...
... important . He must have been kind to me ; but I know I often thought him a beast . He taught me to make paper boats , and for years I kept a glass marble he picked up and brought home to me . Good old Murphy ! I lost it somewhere in ...
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... important commodities : lead twenty- six per cent , benzol eighteen per cent , coal - tar distillates fifteen per cent , ammonia nine per cent , zinc six per cent , coke six per cent , iron five per cent , Thomas slag three per cent ...
... important commodities : lead twenty- six per cent , benzol eighteen per cent , coal - tar distillates fifteen per cent , ammonia nine per cent , zinc six per cent , coke six per cent , iron five per cent , Thomas slag three per cent ...
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Page 164 - That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to languish; and, indeed, my lord, The wretched animal heav'd forth such groans, That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat Almost to bursting; and the big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase; and thus the hairy fool, Much marked of the melancholy Jaques, Stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook, Augmenting it with tears.
Page 216 - If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: «Hold on!
Page 367 - It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined. Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned, Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred. Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared With piteous recognition in fixed eyes, Lifting distressful hands as if to bless. And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell. With a thousand pains that vision's face was grained;...
Page 176 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 293 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 54 - Every language has its anomalies, which though inconvenient and in themselves once unnecessary must be tolerated among the imperfections of human things, and which require only to be registered that they may not be increased; and ascertained, that they may not be confounded; but every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities, which it is the duty of the lexicographer to correct or proscribe.
Page 161 - OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three.
Page 646 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 343 - For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture.
Page 590 - Vain Desires, And Vice, with the spoils upon him Of thee and thy beaten sires, "While Kings of eternal evil Yet darken the hills about, Thy part is with broken sabre To rise on the last redoubt, "To fear not sensible failure, Nor covet the game at all, But fighting, fighting, fighting, Die, driven against the wall!