Shandygaff: A Number of Most Agreeable Inquirendoes Upon Life and Letters, Interspersed with Short Stories and Skits, the Whole Most Diverting to the ReaderGarden City Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1918 - 326 страница |
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... hand to mouth and back to hand again , with rarely more than fifty cents of loose change in pocket , know that there is even a kind of pleasurable exhilaration in it . The characters in George Gissing's Grub Street stories would have ...
... hand to mouth and back to hand again , with rarely more than fifty cents of loose change in pocket , know that there is even a kind of pleasurable exhilaration in it . The characters in George Gissing's Grub Street stories would have ...
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... hand a large glass jar in which two agitated goldfish were swimming , while the four children watched their parents with anxious eyes for the safety of their pets . " Daddy , look out for Ink ! " shrilled one of them , as the struggles ...
... hand a large glass jar in which two agitated goldfish were swimming , while the four children watched their parents with anxious eyes for the safety of their pets . " Daddy , look out for Ink ! " shrilled one of them , as the struggles ...
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... hand . You may praise him for his humour when he wants to be considered a serious and saturnine dog . You may extol his songs of war and passion when he yearns to be esteemed a light , jovial merryandrew with never a care in the world ...
... hand . You may praise him for his humour when he wants to be considered a serious and saturnine dog . You may extol his songs of war and passion when he yearns to be esteemed a light , jovial merryandrew with never a care in the world ...
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... hand with a barrowful of letters every day ( " The rav- ings fed him ” as Don captioned some contrib's quip about Simeon Stylites living on a column ) ; but nevertheless the direct and alternating current must be turned on six times a ...
... hand with a barrowful of letters every day ( " The rav- ings fed him ” as Don captioned some contrib's quip about Simeon Stylites living on a column ) ; but nevertheless the direct and alternating current must be turned on six times a ...
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... hand and serviette tucked under his chin i knew cried the captain that if there was a pork pie in america my faithful cuthbert would find it for me the butler bowed and all the ships officers pulled up their chairs to the table with a ...
... hand and serviette tucked under his chin i knew cried the captain that if there was a pork pie in america my faithful cuthbert would find it for me the butler bowed and all the ships officers pulled up their chairs to the table with a ...
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Balliol beauty Beesley Belinda Belloc Blackwell Blackwell's blue called Casuals catalogue Conrad dear delight dinner Don Marquis engineer England English eyes famous favourite fire FitzGerald furnace Gerald Stanley Lee H. L. Mencken hand Harold Bell Wright heart Henry Henry's Heriot Row Hilaire Belloc honour human immortal Ingo John Loder Joseph Conrad letters light literary living London look man's manuscript McFee mind morning never night novel o'clock once Oxford Peacock Pie Pennsylvania Station perhaps pipe poems poet poetry published quaint remember saloon Samuel Butler Shandygaff ship smoking song soul Stockton Street Strychnine talk tertons things thought of dedicating tion to-day tobacco Tommy Vachel Lindsay Verne verses walk warm Welsh rabbit William McFee wind wonder Woodbridge words writing wrote young
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Страница 72 - To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.
Страница 69 - We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling toward them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their Government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval.
Страница 53 - If I should die, think only this of me : That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed ; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in...
Страница 62 - Of friendly bread; and many-tasting food; Rainbows; and the blue bitter smoke of wood; And radiant raindrops couching in cool flowers; And flowers themselves, that sway through sunny hours, Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon; Then, the cool kindliness of sheets, that soon Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss Of blankets...
Страница 70 - It must be a league of honor, a partnership of opinion. Intrigue would eat its vitals away ; the plottings of inner circles who could plan what they- would and render account to no one would be a corruption seated at its very heart. Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
Страница 63 - This life cannot be All, they swear, For how unpleasant if it were! One may not doubt that, somehow, Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And, sure, the reverent eye must see A Purpose in Liquidity. We darkly know, by Faith we cry, The future is not Wholly Dry.
Страница 69 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States...
Страница 69 - A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.
Страница 49 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Страница 71 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy.