The Sewanee Review, Volumes 3-4University of the South, 1896 - American fiction |
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... tion social , ethical , psychologic , lies between them and us , and how verily alive and picturesque they were indubitably in their day and generation , one waxes sympathetic toward them , after all , and drops into the mood of ...
... tion social , ethical , psychologic , lies between them and us , and how verily alive and picturesque they were indubitably in their day and generation , one waxes sympathetic toward them , after all , and drops into the mood of ...
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... tion was often harsh , unskillfully labored , and injudiciously selected . He affected the obsolete when it was not worthy of revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order , seeming to think , with some later candidates for ...
... tion was often harsh , unskillfully labored , and injudiciously selected . He affected the obsolete when it was not worthy of revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order , seeming to think , with some later candidates for ...
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... tion of it which was already known as India . There was no doubt entertained but that Africa could be circumnavigated and India reached by that route , but that involved an im- mensely long voyage . Was there no shorter way ? Columbus ...
... tion of it which was already known as India . There was no doubt entertained but that Africa could be circumnavigated and India reached by that route , but that involved an im- mensely long voyage . Was there no shorter way ? Columbus ...
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... tion of labor , while strictly speaking , paid out of capital , is actually only an advance on the risk of the expected product , and is in effect the net receipts , or discounted value of the laborer's share . But , nevertheless , the ...
... tion of labor , while strictly speaking , paid out of capital , is actually only an advance on the risk of the expected product , and is in effect the net receipts , or discounted value of the laborer's share . But , nevertheless , the ...
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... tion in order to perceive that no man has ever written racier or less affected English than the author of these letters . What can be more informal for example than the following , and how unexpectedly the humorous turn is brought in ...
... tion in order to perceive that no man has ever written racier or less affected English than the author of these letters . What can be more informal for example than the following , and how unexpectedly the humorous turn is brought in ...
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Page 292 - Of her bright face one glance will trace A picture on the brain, And of her voice in echoing hearts A sound must long remain; But memory, such as mine of her, So very much endears, When death is nigh my latest sigh Will not be life's, but hers. I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon — Her health! and would on earth there stood Some more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry, And weariness a name.
Page 290 - A sister to the night !— Sleep not ! — thine image wakes for aye Within my watching breast: Sleep not! — from her soft sleep should fly, Who robs all hearts of rest. Nay, lady, from thy slumbers break, And make this darkness gay With looks, whose brightness well might make...
Page 46 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 47 - Who slept in buds the day, And many a Nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge, And sheds the freshening dew, and, lovelier still, The pensive Pleasures sweet, Prepare thy shadowy car.
Page 35 - Car nous voulons la Nuance encor, Pas la couleur, rien que la nuance! Oh! la nuance seule fiance Le rêve au rêve et la flûte au cor!
Page 105 - O World ! O life ! O time ! On whose last steps I climb, Trembling at that where I had stood before, — When will return the glory of your prime ? No more — oh never more ! Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight ; Fresh Spring, and Summer, and Winter hoar, Move my faint heart with grief, — but with delight No more — oh never more!
Page 114 - And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
Page 104 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 475 - Before I went into Germany, I came to Broadgate in Leicestershire, to take my leave of that noble Lady Jane Grey, to whom I was exceeding much beholding. Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her in her chamber, reading...
Page 188 - The importance of reading, not slight stuff to get through the time, but the best that has been written, forces itself upon me more and more every year I live ; it is living in good company, the best company, and people are generally quite keen enough, or too keen, about doing that, yet they will not do it in the simplest and most innocent manner by reading. However, if I live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.