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... cloth the delicacies of perception and thought with a neatly fitting garment . So words grow and bifurcate , diverge and dwindle , until one root has many branches . Distinction . 99 Grammarians tell how " royal " and " regal Style 43 ...
... cloth the delicacies of perception and thought with a neatly fitting garment . So words grow and bifurcate , diverge and dwindle , until one root has many branches . Distinction . 99 Grammarians tell how " royal " and " regal Style 43 ...
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... clothes , not in judgment or understand- ing , " and the poorest talkers do not inhabit the slums . Wherever thought and taste have fallen to be menials , there the vulgar dwell . How should they gain mastery over language ? They are ...
... clothes , not in judgment or understand- ing , " and the poorest talkers do not inhabit the slums . Wherever thought and taste have fallen to be menials , there the vulgar dwell . How should they gain mastery over language ? They are ...
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... clothes himself with the elements , and apologises to no idols . His candour frightens them : they avert their eyes from it ; or they treat it as a licensed whim ; or , with a sudden gleam of insight , and apprehension of what this ...
... clothes himself with the elements , and apologises to no idols . His candour frightens them : they avert their eyes from it ; or they treat it as a licensed whim ; or , with a sudden gleam of insight , and apprehension of what this ...
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... Cloth . 2s . 6d . SECOND EDITION " Quite the best contribution that has yet been made to our critical literature in regard to the late Mr. Stevenson . Mr. Raleigh's book , in fact , is full of happily phrased and sensible criticism . It ...
... Cloth . 2s . 6d . SECOND EDITION " Quite the best contribution that has yet been made to our critical literature in regard to the late Mr. Stevenson . Mr. Raleigh's book , in fact , is full of happily phrased and sensible criticism . It ...
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... Cloth . 38. 6d . " Most interesting and instructive , and a book that should be studied by all public speakers . " - Pall Mall Gazette . " Canon Fleming must be congratulated on having written one of the most sensible and practical ...
... Cloth . 38. 6d . " Most interesting and instructive , and a book that should be studied by all public speakers . " - Pall Mall Gazette . " Canon Fleming must be congratulated on having written one of the most sensible and practical ...
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Page 57 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 113 - A man cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to his enemy but upon terms ; whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Page 70 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 101 - Etrurian shades High over-arched embower; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry...
Page 99 - O more than Moon, Draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere, » , Weep me not dead, in thine arms, but forbear To teach the sea, what it may do too soon; Let not the wind Example find, To do me more harm, than it purposeth; Since thou and I sigh one another's breath, Whoe'er sighs most is cruellest, and hastes the other's death.
Page 70 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 19 - Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna...
Page 18 - VOLUME II. Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE. 'Sportsmen of all descriptions will gladly welcome the sumptuous new edition issued by Mr. Edward Arnold of Colonel T. Thornton's Sporting Tour," which has long been a scarce book.
Page 14 - THE STREAM'S SECRET WHAT thing unto mine ear Wouldst thou convey,— what secret thing, O wandering water ever whispering? Surely thy speech shall be of her. Thou water, O thou whispering wanderer, What message dost thou bring? Say, hath not Love leaned low This hour beside thy far well-head, And there through jealous hollowed fingers said The thing that most I long to know,— Murmuring with curls all dabbled in thy flow And washed lips rosy red?
Page 57 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.