The Living Age, Volume 269E. Littell & Company, 1911 |
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... NATURE . Phrases of the Feminine Fiction- Porfirio Diaz - and After 509 562 Daylight Saving 546 Quack Religions . 571 Proposals for the Reform of the The New Opium Convention 755 Calendar 668 · On Public Monuments . 809 NINETEENTH ...
... NATURE . Phrases of the Feminine Fiction- Porfirio Diaz - and After 509 562 Daylight Saving 546 Quack Religions . 571 Proposals for the Reform of the The New Opium Convention 755 Calendar 668 · On Public Monuments . 809 NINETEENTH ...
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... nature , not a bit of high life among them . " was written about 1765. Fielding had died in 1749 , but his popularity was very high when Goldsmith wrote , and the art of Hogarth , though chiefly con- cerned with the vices and follies of ...
... nature , not a bit of high life among them . " was written about 1765. Fielding had died in 1749 , but his popularity was very high when Goldsmith wrote , and the art of Hogarth , though chiefly con- cerned with the vices and follies of ...
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... nature , especially in her character of clergy- man's daughter , was " good to the poor . " But hardly ever in her pages is a poor man or woman sympathet- ically painted . The north of England fared better . Much of Wordsworth's genius ...
... nature , especially in her character of clergy- man's daughter , was " good to the poor . " But hardly ever in her pages is a poor man or woman sympathet- ically painted . The north of England fared better . Much of Wordsworth's genius ...
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... nature is left almost touched . There is a railway bridge , but it is from most points invisible , and it is nowhere ... natural wonders in my life , by sea and mountain and desert , it seemed to me that only once before had I felt so ...
... nature is left almost touched . There is a railway bridge , but it is from most points invisible , and it is nowhere ... natural wonders in my life , by sea and mountain and desert , it seemed to me that only once before had I felt so ...
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... Nature was being conquered and held by the throat , as it were , all the time ; the land had been slowly and painfully reclaimed from the forest inch by inch ; the great trees fired , with reckless waste of timber , and then their roots ...
... Nature was being conquered and held by the throat , as it were , all the time ; the land had been slowly and painfully reclaimed from the forest inch by inch ; the great trees fired , with reckless waste of timber , and then their roots ...
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Page 629 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 80 - AND I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud : and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 658 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.
Page 658 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 699 - The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.
Page 651 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 88 - BEHOLD, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Page 699 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 698 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 288 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.