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... once wrote their author , " is the only way the indi- vidual has of perpetuating his personality . " In this way these papers are not alone of intrinsic value but fitly memorial . Professor Winchester admirably illustrated his own ideal ...
... once wrote their author , " is the only way the indi- vidual has of perpetuating his personality . " In this way these papers are not alone of intrinsic value but fitly memorial . Professor Winchester admirably illustrated his own ideal ...
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... once said : " Of all the men I have met in America the most interesting was a man by the name of Winchester , from a place I never heard of called Wesleyan . " I too had never heard of Winchester or Wesleyan till I was introduced to ...
... once said : " Of all the men I have met in America the most interesting was a man by the name of Winchester , from a place I never heard of called Wesleyan . " I too had never heard of Winchester or Wesleyan till I was introduced to ...
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... once heard a lecturer begin by calling upon his audi- ence " to join him in culling a few choice and fragrant flowers from the Shakespearian fields . " Refusing to cull , I heard no more ; for even to those who know what beauty is , a ...
... once heard a lecturer begin by calling upon his audi- ence " to join him in culling a few choice and fragrant flowers from the Shakespearian fields . " Refusing to cull , I heard no more ; for even to those who know what beauty is , a ...
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... once reddened by the blood of Bosworth battle ; or you can pick your way through the mass of noble building on the opposite side of the court , -armories , state - apartments , banqueting hall , clambering up to get a nearer view of ...
... once reddened by the blood of Bosworth battle ; or you can pick your way through the mass of noble building on the opposite side of the court , -armories , state - apartments , banqueting hall , clambering up to get a nearer view of ...
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... once men were contented with a good round log ; and the third was the change from wooden vessels to those of pewter or tin . But far more important and more wonderful than these merely material changes , among high or low , were the ...
... once men were contented with a good round log ; and the third was the change from wooden vessels to those of pewter or tin . But far more important and more wonderful than these merely material changes , among high or low , were the ...
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Страница 47 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Страница 89 - Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. — Methinks, I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men To excuse their after wrath: Husband, I come: Now to that name my courage prove my title ! I am fire, and air; my other elements I give to baser life.
Страница 39 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Страница 110 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Страница 325 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Страница 108 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Страница 60 - Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being taken with the cramp was drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them. but not for love.
Страница 247 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Страница 89 - With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie : poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch.