The Warner Library, Volume 2Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer Warner Library Company, 1917 - Literature |
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Page 686
... once they were . » But when the Ill stood clear and plain , And naked Wrong was bold to brave , And naught was left but bitter Hate- We paid them in the coin they gave . We strode as stalks a lion forth At dawn , a lion wrathful - eyed ...
... once they were . » But when the Ill stood clear and plain , And naked Wrong was bold to brave , And naught was left but bitter Hate- We paid them in the coin they gave . We strode as stalks a lion forth At dawn , a lion wrathful - eyed ...
Page 689
... once ye were wont to go . Ay , God knows that we , we love you not , in sooth ! and that we blame ye not that ye have no love for us . Each of us has his ground for the loathing his fellow moves : a grace it is from the Lord that we ...
... once ye were wont to go . Ay , God knows that we , we love you not , in sooth ! and that we blame ye not that ye have no love for us . Each of us has his ground for the loathing his fellow moves : a grace it is from the Lord that we ...
Page 706
... once , with an audacity which even now astonishes me , to intone the song which all the shepherds in Iviza sing : - Ah graciada Señora , Una canzo bouil canta , Bè bè bè bè . No sera gaiva pulida , Nosé si vos agradara , Bè bè bè bè ...
... once , with an audacity which even now astonishes me , to intone the song which all the shepherds in Iviza sing : - Ah graciada Señora , Una canzo bouil canta , Bè bè bè bè . No sera gaiva pulida , Nosé si vos agradara , Bè bè bè bè ...
Page 716
... once began . They failed because the neces- sary observations required powerful telescopes , which could not be employed on a tossing ship . Even the expectations of the serviceability of Galileo's methods for land calculations proved ...
... once began . They failed because the neces- sary observations required powerful telescopes , which could not be employed on a tossing ship . Even the expectations of the serviceability of Galileo's methods for land calculations proved ...
Page 719
... Once , and once only , did Laplace launch forward , like Kepler , like Descartes , like Leibnitz , like Buffon , into the region of con- jectures . But then his conception was nothing less than a com- plete cosmogony . All the planets ...
... Once , and once only , did Laplace launch forward , like Kepler , like Descartes , like Leibnitz , like Buffon , into the region of con- jectures . But then his conception was nothing less than a com- plete cosmogony . All the planets ...
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Acharnians Arabic Aristophanes Aristotle Arnold Arthurian legend Aucassin Averroës Avesta beautiful benefits will ye bird body called century comedy cried dead dear death Dubricius earth English Euripides eyes fair faith father feel Fourchambault friends Gaston Paris genius German German's fatherland hand Haoma hast hath heard heart heaven holy honor horse intellectual intelligence King Arthur land Laplace Layamon learned light literary literature live look Lord LORD'S benefits LUDOVICO ARIOSTO Marcus Aurelius matter Medoro mind nature never Nicolette night noble o'er Orlando Orlando Furioso passed philosopher Phosphorists poem poet poetic poetry praise prose Sir Bedivere Sir Lucan Sir Mordred smelling-salts song soul speak spirit sweet sword tell thee things thought took Translation unto verse voice Walpurga wife word Yasna ye ungratefully deny young youth Yudhisthira
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Page 1165 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 877 - THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits ; — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Page 1166 - Certainly there be that delight in giddiness; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting.
Page 877 - The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 1173 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, ' Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Page 1176 - ... in the communicating and discoursing with another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words: finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the King of Persia, 'That speech was like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad; whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs.
Page 987 - Away with cant, and let him that is without sin among you cast the first stone.
Page 1174 - ... they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own safety and greatness. For princes, in regard of the distance of their fortune from that of their subjects and servants, cannot gather this fruit, except (to make themselves capable thereof) they raise some persons to be as it were companions, and almost equals to themselves, which many times sorteth to inconvenience.
Page 1168 - REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Page 1171 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.