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... least from gross impostures . " The night was dark in the absence of a moon , but the stars cast a pale radi- ance down upon the water . The milky way , scattered like breadths of daisies in a pasture , stretched from horizon to zenith ...
... least from gross impostures . " The night was dark in the absence of a moon , but the stars cast a pale radi- ance down upon the water . The milky way , scattered like breadths of daisies in a pasture , stretched from horizon to zenith ...
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... least Arnold in his dreaming youth . What , unnecessary ; in one word , as these cheer- then , is the one quality for there must ful critics are wont to say , in a sense of at least be one - common to all this their own , morbid ...
... least Arnold in his dreaming youth . What , unnecessary ; in one word , as these cheer- then , is the one quality for there must ful critics are wont to say , in a sense of at least be one - common to all this their own , morbid ...
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... least , I was not to be included in that unfashionably promiscuous company . The vulgar crowd must wait , of course . For the present the mountains , in re- porters ' language , were " on private view ; " and for all the ignorance of ...
... least , I was not to be included in that unfashionably promiscuous company . The vulgar crowd must wait , of course . For the present the mountains , in re- porters ' language , were " on private view ; " and for all the ignorance of ...
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... least , of nearly his own color . The song is intrinsi- cally one of the most beautiful , and in my ears it has this further merit , that I have never heard it anywhere except among the White Hills . How well I remember an early morning ...
... least , of nearly his own color . The song is intrinsi- cally one of the most beautiful , and in my ears it has this further merit , that I have never heard it anywhere except among the White Hills . How well I remember an early morning ...
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... least one other person of whom the same is true , -a person of whom I have neverthe- less a very good opinion , and with whom I am , or ought to be , better acquainted than I am with any animal that wears feathers . The prettiest snow ...
... least one other person of whom the same is true , -a person of whom I have neverthe- less a very good opinion , and with whom I am , or ought to be , better acquainted than I am with any animal that wears feathers . The prettiest snow ...
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Page 271 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Page 619 - The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is in fact, and must be, regarded by the judges as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body.
Page 315 - ... as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,
Page 31 - ... fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donee requiescat in te.
Page 267 - tis true, I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view, Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new. Most true it is, that I have look'd on truth Askance and strangely.
Page 315 - Sufflaminandus erat,' as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power ; would the rule of it had been so too ! Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,
Page 264 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
Page 325 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely...
Page 268 - As when, upon a tranced summer-night, Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir, Save from one gradual solitary gust Which comes upon the silence, and dies off, As if the ebbing air had but one wave...
Page 404 - A bird's nest. Mark it well ! — within, without ; No tool had he that wrought — no knife to cut, No nail to fix — no bodkin to insert — No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand. With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...