The Dial, Svazek 5Francis Fisher Browne Jansen, McClurg, 1885 |
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... style is easy and elegant , and occasionally rises to an elevation which stirs the emotions . The dis- cussion abounds in terse and impressive , often beautiful passages . Speaking of the oak - gall , which grows around the egg of the ...
... style is easy and elegant , and occasionally rises to an elevation which stirs the emotions . The dis- cussion abounds in terse and impressive , often beautiful passages . Speaking of the oak - gall , which grows around the egg of the ...
Strana 4
... style . But in spite of all possibility of adverse criti- cism , the Duke of Argyll's " Unity of Nature " is one of the great works of this generation , and will do good service toward the enlighten- ment of theology and the ...
... style . But in spite of all possibility of adverse criti- cism , the Duke of Argyll's " Unity of Nature " is one of the great works of this generation , and will do good service toward the enlighten- ment of theology and the ...
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... style of the newspaper correspondent . The work of Mr. Hake , on the other hand , has been prepared with a larger aim , and although relying upon preceding biographies for much of its mate- rial , has taken from original sources ...
... style of the newspaper correspondent . The work of Mr. Hake , on the other hand , has been prepared with a larger aim , and although relying upon preceding biographies for much of its mate- rial , has taken from original sources ...
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... style . A late specimen appears in the little brochure written by Mr. O. B. Bunce , entitled " My House , An Ideal , ” ( Scribners ) . It attempts noth- ing beyond an outline of the house " good and true ' 99 " from top to bottom ...
... style . A late specimen appears in the little brochure written by Mr. O. B. Bunce , entitled " My House , An Ideal , ” ( Scribners ) . It attempts noth- ing beyond an outline of the house " good and true ' 99 " from top to bottom ...
Strana 18
... style and unstrained conclu- sions . His influence upon the world has been that of a moral teacher no less than that of an original and ingenious scientific investigator . ( Appleton . ) ROMANES'S " Mental Evolution in Animals " ( Ap ...
... style and unstrained conclu- sions . His influence upon the world has been that of a moral teacher no less than that of an original and ingenious scientific investigator . ( Appleton . ) ROMANES'S " Mental Evolution in Animals " ( Ap ...
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Strana 245 - INTO the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him When into the woods He came. Out of the woods my Master went, And He was well content. Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last : 'Twas on a tree they slew Him —...
Strana 320 - ... two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could layd hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beate out his braines, Pocahontas, the Kings dearest daughter, when.
Strana 277 - Hays.— Women of the Day : A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Contemporaries. By FRANCES HAYS. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 5s. Heath (FG). — My Garden Wild, and What I Grew There. By FRANCIS GEORGE HEATH, Author of " The Fern World,
Strana 320 - Pocahontas, the King's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevaile, got his head in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death: whereat the Emperour was contented he should live to make him hatchets, and her bells, beads, and copper: for they thought him as well of all occupations as themselves.
Strana 296 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all the means ; and that posterity will triumph in that day's transaction, even although we should rue it, — which I trust in God we shall not.
Strana 271 - To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Strana 276 - Crime of Christmas Day. A Tale of the Latin Quarter. By the Author of "My Ducats and my Daughter." is. HUNTER, Hay, and WHYTE, Walter.— My Ducats and My Daughter.
Strana 270 - And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my Journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand...
Strana 245 - Will break as a bubble o'er-blown in a dream,— Yon dome of too-tenuous tissues of space and of night, Over-weighted with stars, over-freighted with light, Over-sated with beauty and silence, will seem But a bubble that broke in a dream, If a bound of degree to this grace be laid, Or a sound or a motion made.
Strana 80 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.