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... soon get fat . " Then the manager looked grave , and bade him go his way , adding , that he engaged only people of edu- cation . So , at the age of fourteen , with thirty shillings in his pocket , and his idea of becoming famous by ...
... soon get fat . " Then the manager looked grave , and bade him go his way , adding , that he engaged only people of edu- cation . So , at the age of fourteen , with thirty shillings in his pocket , and his idea of becoming famous by ...
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... soon be eight - and - twenty ; but it is an act of mercy , which I beseech of you . If you will not do it , nobody else will ; and I think I must drink - till my brain reels - and I forget what I have made myself ! ' " Is that the very ...
... soon be eight - and - twenty ; but it is an act of mercy , which I beseech of you . If you will not do it , nobody else will ; and I think I must drink - till my brain reels - and I forget what I have made myself ! ' " Is that the very ...
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... soon obtained the confidence of that most impracticable of all personages , Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough . bustle of a court ? —and , engrossed with the larg- est interests of nations , what interest could he attach to the squabbles ...
... soon obtained the confidence of that most impracticable of all personages , Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough . bustle of a court ? —and , engrossed with the larg- est interests of nations , what interest could he attach to the squabbles ...
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... soon separated ; the earl died , and she took another husband , John Sheffield , Duke of Buckingham , certainly not too youthful a bride- groom . The duke , always a wit , had been in early life one of the most dissipated men of his day ...
... soon separated ; the earl died , and she took another husband , John Sheffield , Duke of Buckingham , certainly not too youthful a bride- groom . The duke , always a wit , had been in early life one of the most dissipated men of his day ...
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... soon ; for the ship , after a furious plunge , went down like a stone , very nearly sucking boat and men with her into the abyss . The proximate cause of the catastrophe had be- come obvious as the long - boat was leaving her side ; for ...
... soon ; for the ship , after a furious plunge , went down like a stone , very nearly sucking boat and men with her into the abyss . The proximate cause of the catastrophe had be- come obvious as the long - boat was leaving her side ; for ...
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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.