The Living Age, Volume 240Living Age Company, 1904 - Literature |
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... present suffering from that . It may mean a failure of largeness and noble- ness in the treatment , a decline of spiritual energy ; but no one can seri- ously ascribe such a failure to Maeter- linck or Sudermann , or , we may add , to ...
... present suffering from that . It may mean a failure of largeness and noble- ness in the treatment , a decline of spiritual energy ; but no one can seri- ously ascribe such a failure to Maeter- linck or Sudermann , or , we may add , to ...
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... present itself . It does present itself ; there is the story , but there also is the tragedy . Meantime let her have her precarious , whole- hearted , stolen happiness , walking pledged in Kensington Gardens The Novels of Mr Henry James .
... present itself . It does present itself ; there is the story , but there also is the tragedy . Meantime let her have her precarious , whole- hearted , stolen happiness , walking pledged in Kensington Gardens The Novels of Mr Henry James .
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... present . For their beauty and strange grace these Venetian chapters , let us prophesy frankly , may come to be thought a classic in their kind . For the Dove , as her frail body fades in her palace , begins , in ways unforeseen , to ...
... present . For their beauty and strange grace these Venetian chapters , let us prophesy frankly , may come to be thought a classic in their kind . For the Dove , as her frail body fades in her palace , begins , in ways unforeseen , to ...
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... present instance the Stoneyhurst drawings show that as far back as last July a small group of dots - they could ... presents a broken appearance , though it may in many cases cover a larger area than its fellow . At this stage the leader ...
... present instance the Stoneyhurst drawings show that as far back as last July a small group of dots - they could ... presents a broken appearance , though it may in many cases cover a larger area than its fellow . At this stage the leader ...
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... present a very compact appearance and cling closely to the spot - group . But as the spot - group grows in age , but is re- duced in size , they extend in beautiful luminous branches over ever - increasing areas of the solar surface ...
... present a very compact appearance and cling closely to the spot - group . But as the spot - group grows in age , but is re- duced in size , they extend in beautiful luminous branches over ever - increasing areas of the solar surface ...
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Page 161 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 362 - And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Page 325 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Page 362 - And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man: yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Page 184 - Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage, Life's struggle having so far reached its term: Thence shall I pass, approved A man, for aye removed From the developed brute; a God though in the germ.
Page 687 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Page 427 - Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want...
Page 360 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 315 - He is a man speaking to men — a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind...
Page 692 - For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.