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... reason . that young Lowell could not have written two thousand lines or so of verse without falling upon felicities worthy of preservation , however mis- taken the design may have been or , for that matter , however irrelevant and ...
... reason . that young Lowell could not have written two thousand lines or so of verse without falling upon felicities worthy of preservation , however mis- taken the design may have been or , for that matter , however irrelevant and ...
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... reason of its subject matter , interesting also for the archi- tectural criticism , in spite of its complete freedom from the weakness of understatement and of its complete disdain of tempering the critical wind to the shorn architect ...
... reason of its subject matter , interesting also for the archi- tectural criticism , in spite of its complete freedom from the weakness of understatement and of its complete disdain of tempering the critical wind to the shorn architect ...
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... reasons for it . The fact is that such a thing is impossible ; because in the first place you are too busy with other matters to give the advertising sufficient attention , and besides , no advertising could do jus- tice to Chicago . It ...
... reasons for it . The fact is that such a thing is impossible ; because in the first place you are too busy with other matters to give the advertising sufficient attention , and besides , no advertising could do jus- tice to Chicago . It ...
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... reason , and that patience alone can overcome these two plagues . I have as much of it as I can , and I advise you , my friend , to have the same . When frosts have blackened the earth , a bright sun makes us forget them . We are in the ...
... reason , and that patience alone can overcome these two plagues . I have as much of it as I can , and I advise you , my friend , to have the same . When frosts have blackened the earth , a bright sun makes us forget them . We are in the ...
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... reasons results in their favor . Any excess is almost sure to invite a reaction ; and , unfortunately , the reac- tion , instead of taking the form of punishment of those guilty of the ex- cess , is very apt to take the form either of ...
... reasons results in their favor . Any excess is almost sure to invite a reaction ; and , unfortunately , the reac- tion , instead of taking the form of punishment of those guilty of the ex- cess , is very apt to take the form either of ...
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Page 731 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 515 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 270 - So when they continued asking Him, He lifted up Himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Page 297 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Page 731 - The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Page 750 - The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader may smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire.
Page 44 - HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider.
Page 337 - Here let us sport. Boys, as we sit; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is but short; When we are gone, Let them sing on Round the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this; Faces we miss. Pleasant to see. Kind hearts and true, Gentle and just, Peace to your dust! We sing round the tree.
Page 296 - Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings. Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
Page 337 - Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on, Round the old tree.