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... spirit of your people . The aboriginal dwellers in this region were called Illini - which is by interpretation Men . It was men who built this town . Opportunity alone never made a man or a city . " The skirts of happy chance " must be ...
... spirit of your people . The aboriginal dwellers in this region were called Illini - which is by interpretation Men . It was men who built this town . Opportunity alone never made a man or a city . " The skirts of happy chance " must be ...
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... spirit of the age , in the aspirations and progress of the world . It would be futile and inane to say that a community so cosmopolitan had not its shadows as well as its lights ; with the universal virtues it must have the faults which ...
... spirit of the age , in the aspirations and progress of the world . It would be futile and inane to say that a community so cosmopolitan had not its shadows as well as its lights ; with the universal virtues it must have the faults which ...
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... spirit , and the speech of boys . I can only con- jecture that they have succeeded where Ponce de Leon failed in dis- covering the fountain of Perpetual Youth , and , naturally enough , are keeping it a secret from the rest of us . I ...
... spirit , and the speech of boys . I can only con- jecture that they have succeeded where Ponce de Leon failed in dis- covering the fountain of Perpetual Youth , and , naturally enough , are keeping it a secret from the rest of us . I ...
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... spirit than we do now . The great Boston choir of poets was then in its meridian splen- dor ; a younger trio were singing in the Middle States , Taylor , Stoddard , and Boker , differing widely in character and circumstances but bound ...
... spirit than we do now . The great Boston choir of poets was then in its meridian splen- dor ; a younger trio were singing in the Middle States , Taylor , Stoddard , and Boker , differing widely in character and circumstances but bound ...
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... spirit of preciosity , but as a departure from - though not a revolt against - the moralizing and reformatory propaganda , howsoever great in purpose and achievement , of the venerated " elder bards . " EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN . My ...
... spirit of preciosity , but as a departure from - though not a revolt against - the moralizing and reformatory propaganda , howsoever great in purpose and achievement , of the venerated " elder bards . " EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN . My ...
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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.