The Living Age, Volum 250E. Littell & Company, 1906 |
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Pàgina 5
... things according to their intrinsic usefulness ; a life of exertion in contradiction to one of self - indulgent ease and sloth . But James Mill , when all was said , " thought human life a poor thing at best , after the freshness of ...
... things according to their intrinsic usefulness ; a life of exertion in contradiction to one of self - indulgent ease and sloth . But James Mill , when all was said , " thought human life a poor thing at best , after the freshness of ...
Pàgina 6
... thing naturally and necessarily to be attended to , like any of the physical conditions of our exist- ence . . . . In ... things would be universally seen and acknowl- edged to be the wickedest of men . " This poignant piece is perhaps ...
... thing naturally and necessarily to be attended to , like any of the physical conditions of our exist- ence . . . . In ... things would be universally seen and acknowl- edged to be the wickedest of men . " This poignant piece is perhaps ...
Pàgina 24
... thing . It is an adornment and decoration of something real , an accessory or after- thought , which , though often ... things away in . Nothing , in short , that we look at , makes it any longer its object and purpose in life to fulfil ...
... thing . It is an adornment and decoration of something real , an accessory or after- thought , which , though often ... things away in . Nothing , in short , that we look at , makes it any longer its object and purpose in life to fulfil ...
Pàgina 25
... things of life , which after all is the true function of art as applied to things like furniture , but minister and bear witness to a life cut off from such things . It is impossi- ble to associate these exquisite cre- The It ations ...
... things of life , which after all is the true function of art as applied to things like furniture , but minister and bear witness to a life cut off from such things . It is impossi- ble to associate these exquisite cre- The It ations ...
Pàgina 26
... things of life . Such facts as that the Prince de Conti used the dust of a crushed diamond to dry the ink of a billet to his mistress , or that the Queen gave the Dauphin a carriage covered with rubies and sapphires , or that Ma- dame ...
... things of life . Such facts as that the Prince de Conti used the dust of a crushed diamond to dry the ink of a billet to his mistress , or that the Queen gave the Dauphin a carriage covered with rubies and sapphires , or that Ma- dame ...
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Antony and Cleopatra asked Beaujeu Bill boys called character Charlbury child Church course cried Délémont Dering door Dorcas doubt Duma E. P. Dutton English eyes face fact feel French girl give Government H. C. Bailey hand head Healy heart House House of Commons House of Lords human Ibsen interest John Broadwood kind King labor lady land laughed less letters LIVING AGE looked lord Lord Chancellor lord Sunderland Majesty matter means ment mind nation nature ness never once Parliament party passed Paudeen perhaps Peter play political Port Arthur present Prue question Rose round Russian seemed sense Sherborne side sion sleep smile speak stand story Sunderland sure tell things thought tion to-day told turned vegetarian voice whole woman words write
Passatges populars
Pàgina 109 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Pàgina 368 - If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable!
Pàgina 367 - Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them?
Pàgina 733 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Pàgina 366 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Pàgina 366 - To see the world in a grain of sand And heaven in a wild flower . . . and then stopped.
Pàgina 138 - Unarm, Eros ; the long day's task is done, And we must sleep.
Pàgina 196 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Pàgina 367 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Pàgina 496 - The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace— all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least.