Littell's Living Age, Volume 121Living Age Company Incorporated, 1874 - American periodicals |
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... person trying to look over his shoulder . Going up , we find the floors above to have a very irreg- ular surface , rising to ridges , sinking into valleys , and being at present uncarpeted , the face of the boards is shown to be ...
... person trying to look over his shoulder . Going up , we find the floors above to have a very irreg- ular surface , rising to ridges , sinking into valleys , and being at present uncarpeted , the face of the boards is shown to be ...
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... person , taking up one of the half sovereigns lying before her , and ad- miringly surveying it as a work of art merely , strictly preventing her counte- nance from expressing any wish to pos- " A man wanted to once , " she said , in a ...
... person , taking up one of the half sovereigns lying before her , and ad- miringly surveying it as a work of art merely , strictly preventing her counte- nance from expressing any wish to pos- " A man wanted to once , " she said , in a ...
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... person addressed . " I am the personal name of Poorgrass a small matter who is nothing in his own eye . Perhaps it is different in the eye of other people - but I don't say it ; though public thought will out . " " What do you do on the ...
... person addressed . " I am the personal name of Poorgrass a small matter who is nothing in his own eye . Perhaps it is different in the eye of other people - but I don't say it ; though public thought will out . " " What do you do on the ...
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... person was so much like a mere shade upon the earth , and the other speaker so much a part of the building , that one would have said the wall was holding converse with the snow . 66 Yes , " came suspiciously from the shadow . " What ...
... person was so much like a mere shade upon the earth , and the other speaker so much a part of the building , that one would have said the wall was holding converse with the snow . 66 Yes , " came suspiciously from the shadow . " What ...
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... person and by proxy no more was her appearance the following market - day in the corn - market at Casterbridge . The low though extensive hall , sup- ported by Tuscan pillars , and latterly these she had made her way . But if she was to ...
... person and by proxy no more was her appearance the following market - day in the corn - market at Casterbridge . The low though extensive hall , sup- ported by Tuscan pillars , and latterly these she had made her way . But if she was to ...
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Page 321 - For so is the will of God that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
Page 316 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 140 - ... cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the Grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury — he has never done With his delights; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth is ceasing never: On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems to one in drowsiness half lost, The Grasshopper's among...
Page 136 - The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, Are governed with goodly modesty, That suffers not one look to glance awry Which may let in a little thought unsound.
Page 440 - Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
Page 189 - But evil on itself shall back recoil, And mix no more with goodness, when at last, Gathered like scum, and settled to itself, It shall be in eternal restless change Self-fed and self-consumed. If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
Page 140 - The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot Sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead. That is the grasshopper's : he takes the lead In summer luxury — he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Page 138 - A THING of beauty is a joy forever : Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness...
Page 139 - KEEN, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there Among the bushes half leafless, and dry ; The stars look very cold about the sky, And I have many miles on foot to fare. Yet feel I little of the cool bleak air, Or of the dead leaves rustling drearily, Or of those silver lamps that burn on high, Or of the distance from home's pleasant lair: For I am brimfull of the friendliness That in a little cottage I have found ; Of fair-hair'd Milton's eloquent distress, And all his love for gentle Lycid drown'd...
Page 269 - That the end of life is not action but contemplation — being as distinct ~] from doing — a certain disposition of the mind: is, in some shape or other, the principle of all the higher morality. In poetry, in art, if you enter into their true spirit at all, you touch this principle, in a measure: these, by their very sterility, are a type of beholding for the mere joy of beholding. To treat life in the spirit of art, is to make life a thing in which means and ends are identified: to encourage...