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... interest is , in their eyes , the ulence of other human beings independent timate ground of morality , and the average animal of ourselves , or , indeed , the existence of is utterly selfish . But certain animals perform acts , our own ...
... interest is , in their eyes , the ulence of other human beings independent timate ground of morality , and the average animal of ourselves , or , indeed , the existence of is utterly selfish . But certain animals perform acts , our own ...
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... interest us , because of the one touch of nature , and as specimens of our common humanity . object of fiction is amusement ; and this , in the novels we are speaking of , can only be gathered from the vicious or criminal adventures of ...
... interest us , because of the one touch of nature , and as specimens of our common humanity . object of fiction is amusement ; and this , in the novels we are speaking of , can only be gathered from the vicious or criminal adventures of ...
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... interest is concentrated on his descriptions of David Garrick . Garrick himself he saw in the plays , not only of Shakspeare , but also of Ben Jonson , Beaumont and Fletcher , Farquhar , Vanbrugh , and others , whose plays are now ...
... interest is concentrated on his descriptions of David Garrick . Garrick himself he saw in the plays , not only of Shakspeare , but also of Ben Jonson , Beaumont and Fletcher , Farquhar , Vanbrugh , and others , whose plays are now ...
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... interest in the cause of science by contributing whatever they may be able to spare as soon as the amount and nature of the loss is ascertained . The animals fared better than the plants not only have none of them been eaten by the ...
... interest in the cause of science by contributing whatever they may be able to spare as soon as the amount and nature of the loss is ascertained . The animals fared better than the plants not only have none of them been eaten by the ...
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... interest ; but the lancia quickly became a speck , and vanished into the inner port out of sight . By this time the reflection of the golden flower upon the glittering water had become so insup- portably dazzling , that I was compelled ...
... interest ; but the lancia quickly became a speck , and vanished into the inner port out of sight . By this time the reflection of the golden flower upon the glittering water had become so insup- portably dazzling , that I was compelled ...
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Page 431 - To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied, — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.
Page 42 - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Page 349 - Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.
Page 67 - Here's the English at our heels; would you have them take in tow All that's left us of the fleet, linked together stern and bow, For a prize to Plymouth Sound ? Better run the ships aground ! ' (Ended Damfreville his speech).
Page 67 - Morn and eve, night and day, Have I piloted your bay, Entered free and anchored fast at the foot of Solidor. Burn the fleet and ruin France? That were worse than fifty Hogues! Sirs, they know I speak the truth! Sirs, believe me there's a way! Only let me lead the line, Have the biggest ship to steer, Get this 'Formidable...
Page 31 - I'll read, his for his love." XXXIII Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 349 - A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora.
Page 212 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them: thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own...
Page 68 - Greve. Hearts that bled are stanched with balm. "Just our rapture to enhance, Let the English rake the bay, Gnash their teeth and glare askance As they cannonade away! 'Neath rampired Solidor pleasant riding on the Ranee!
Page 203 - COURAGE!' he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.