Littell's Living Age, Volume 16Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1848 - Literature |
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... become must be allowed to abate somewhat of the austerity a throne ! Apparently acquiescing in his matri- of criticism by a reference to the life of the author . | monial project , she now professed her willingness We cannot implicitly ...
... become must be allowed to abate somewhat of the austerity a throne ! Apparently acquiescing in his matri- of criticism by a reference to the life of the author . | monial project , she now professed her willingness We cannot implicitly ...
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... become patent to the world , he must have been indebted to his father . This poor and hapless shoemaker ( such was his trade ) seems to have been a singular person . To use a favorite phrase of Napoleon , " He had missed his destiny ...
... become patent to the world , he must have been indebted to his father . This poor and hapless shoemaker ( such was his trade ) seems to have been a singular person . To use a favorite phrase of Napoleon , " He had missed his destiny ...
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... become in the world . tiny that these puppets were conducting him . I prayed him earnestly from my heart to forgive me , and then again I thought upon my new boots . 66 " An old female tailor altered my deceased father's About this time ...
... become in the world . tiny that these puppets were conducting him . I prayed him earnestly from my heart to forgive me , and then again I thought upon my new boots . 66 " An old female tailor altered my deceased father's About this time ...
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... becoming famous by going through a deal of adversity , he comes to Copenhagen - the Paris , the more than the Paris ... become famous . Here he met with where the rigid laws of probability are dispensed what , for a moment , looked like ...
... becoming famous by going through a deal of adversity , he comes to Copenhagen - the Paris , the more than the Paris ... become famous . Here he met with where the rigid laws of probability are dispensed what , for a moment , looked like ...
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... become famous . " worn - out resources of preceding novelists , it is always ( and in this he may be doing good service ) to render them still more palpably absurd and ridiculous than they were before . He has dreams in plenty - his ...
... become famous . " worn - out resources of preceding novelists , it is always ( and in this he may be doing good service ) to render them still more palpably absurd and ridiculous than they were before . He has dreams in plenty - his ...
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Page 67 - A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round with weakness; — it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour...
Page 276 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 281 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Page 4 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read." So he vanished from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.
Page 66 - This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate, and the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.
Page 4 - Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;' So I piped: he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!
Page 100 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 66 - Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends.
Page 100 - It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken.
Page 63 - It had been long abandoned, for its sides Gaped wide with many a rift, and its frail joints Swayed with the undulations of the tide. A restless impulse urged him to embark, And meet lone Death on the drear ocean's waste ; For well he knew that mighty Shadow loves The slimy caverns of the populous deep.