The Living Age, Volumen269E. Littell & Company, 1911 |
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... shall we find its characteristics : to be ? One cannot deny its cleverness , in some instances its originality and freshness , its vivid power of word- painting , its frankness , carried some- times to the 6 Democracy in English Fiction .
... shall we find its characteristics : to be ? One cannot deny its cleverness , in some instances its originality and freshness , its vivid power of word- painting , its frankness , carried some- times to the 6 Democracy in English Fiction .
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... carry it out . But what strikes one in the majority of our mod- ern works of fiction is a total lack of nobility . After all , what constitutes nobility ? Surely it is having a noble aim . It might be said , and very likely may have ...
... carry it out . But what strikes one in the majority of our mod- ern works of fiction is a total lack of nobility . After all , what constitutes nobility ? Surely it is having a noble aim . It might be said , and very likely may have ...
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... carry about with her an atmosphere of freshness , yet as she stood thus , arrayed in clinging folds of rusty black , her un- kempt head fiercely poised , face and figure were alike invested with a cer- tain tragic beauty . David ...
... carry about with her an atmosphere of freshness , yet as she stood thus , arrayed in clinging folds of rusty black , her un- kempt head fiercely poised , face and figure were alike invested with a cer- tain tragic beauty . David ...
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... carrying the little red vel- vet beetles off their indignant legs . But it was apparently a mistake , and stopped as suddenly as it had begun . Then we walked on along the edge of the rain forest , through a perpetual Cornish " skew ...
... carrying the little red vel- vet beetles off their indignant legs . But it was apparently a mistake , and stopped as suddenly as it had begun . Then we walked on along the edge of the rain forest , through a perpetual Cornish " skew ...
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... carry out his orders and win Rhodesia for the Empire ; but however that may be , it would , I think , have been more in keeping with the spirit of the place to let Rhodes lie there by himself , alone in death with the hills and the ...
... carry out his orders and win Rhodesia for the Empire ; but however that may be , it would , I think , have been more in keeping with the spirit of the place to let Rhodes lie there by himself , alone in death with the hills and the ...
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Página 629 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Página 80 - AND I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud : and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Página 658 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.
Página 658 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Página 699 - The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.
Página 651 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Página 88 - BEHOLD, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Página 699 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Página 698 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Página 288 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.