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Page 115
... Siberia , when he came to St. Petersburg , always sent his private aide - de - camp with a handsome gift to the private valet of the Em- peror . " There are days , " he used to say , " when the Emperor would get into a rage , and order ...
... Siberia , when he came to St. Petersburg , always sent his private aide - de - camp with a handsome gift to the private valet of the Em- peror . " There are days , " he used to say , " when the Emperor would get into a rage , and order ...
Page 163
THE SUBTLE PROBLEMS OF CHARITY . THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A REVOLUTIONIST . SIBERIA . --- PROBABLY there is no relation in life which our democracy is changing more rapidly than the charitable relation , that relation which obtains between ...
THE SUBTLE PROBLEMS OF CHARITY . THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A REVOLUTIONIST . SIBERIA . --- PROBABLY there is no relation in life which our democracy is changing more rapidly than the charitable relation , that relation which obtains between ...
Page 179
... Siberia . The Amúr region had recently been annexed by Russia ; I had read all about that Mississippi of the East , the mountains it pierces , the sub- tropical vegetation of its tributary , the Usurí , and my thoughts went further , to ...
... Siberia . The Amúr region had recently been annexed by Russia ; I had read all about that Mississippi of the East , the mountains it pierces , the sub- tropical vegetation of its tributary , the Usurí , and my thoughts went further , to ...
Page 182
... Siberia . This great conflagration became a turning point not only in the policy of Alexander II . , but also in the history of Russia for that part of the century . That it was not a mere accident was self - evident . Trinity and the ...
... Siberia . This great conflagration became a turning point not only in the policy of Alexander II . , but also in the history of Russia for that part of the century . That it was not a mere accident was self - evident . Trinity and the ...
Page 185
... Siberia ? Did your father consent to it , after all ? " I answered in the affirmative . " Are you not afraid to go so far ? " I hotly re- plied , " No , I want to work . There must be so much to do in Siberia to apply the great reforms ...
... Siberia ? Did your father consent to it , after all ? " I answered in the affirmative . " Are you not afraid to go so far ? " I hotly re- plied , " No , I want to work . There must be so much to do in Siberia to apply the great reforms ...
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Page 121 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 273 - Yet each to keep and all, retrievements out of the night, The song, the wondrous chant of the gray-brown bird, And the tallying chant, the echo arous'd in my soul, With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe, With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird, Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep...
Page 121 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 402 - I will not have in my writing any elegance or effect or originality to hang in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what it is.
Page 403 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 276 - So, as I enter here from day to day, And leave my burden at this minster gate, Kneeling in prayer, and not ashamed to pray, The tumult of the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait.
Page 271 - THE blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven ; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even ; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.
Page 449 - ... not that I speak in respect of want; for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound ; every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 121 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 121 - ... t were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.