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Sir John Skelton. TO JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE , ESQUIRE , THE HISTORIAN OF THE ENGLISH REFOR- MATION , THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED , BY つう HIS ATTACHED FRIEND , THE AUTHOR . 7 a TIBKYBA MEM AOKK THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY . HERE is a.
Sir John Skelton. TO JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE , ESQUIRE , THE HISTORIAN OF THE ENGLISH REFOR- MATION , THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED , BY つう HIS ATTACHED FRIEND , THE AUTHOR . 7 a TIBKYBA MEM AOKK THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY . HERE is a.
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... English was learned , I supposed , at the plough . People who live in villages , in fact , always quarrel . I don't wonder that they do . They see so much of each other , and so little of the rest of the world . They are continually ...
... English was learned , I supposed , at the plough . People who live in villages , in fact , always quarrel . I don't wonder that they do . They see so much of each other , and so little of the rest of the world . They are continually ...
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... English habitation , to the stronger lines of an earlier moralist . That Dr. Diamond's heart was as sound as his digestion , that his wits were as keen and bright as his grey eyes , that he had a hot temper , a liberal sym- pathy for ...
... English habitation , to the stronger lines of an earlier moralist . That Dr. Diamond's heart was as sound as his digestion , that his wits were as keen and bright as his grey eyes , that he had a hot temper , a liberal sym- pathy for ...
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... English ; he had sketched , with a touch incomparably delicate and finished , the intricate mental relations of a meditative but feverish age , of an active yet pensive society ; he was a master of that implied . and constructive irony ...
... English ; he had sketched , with a touch incomparably delicate and finished , the intricate mental relations of a meditative but feverish age , of an active yet pensive society ; he was a master of that implied . and constructive irony ...
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... a truer notion of the English men and women and children of the Victorian era is to be obtained than from all the portraits painted by the Academicians . With such a presence , he might easily have been W. M. THACKERAY . 41.
... a truer notion of the English men and women and children of the Victorian era is to be obtained than from all the portraits painted by the Academicians . With such a presence , he might easily have been W. M. THACKERAY . 41.
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Page 321 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming ; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 62 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Page 276 - I loved you, Evelyn, all the while ! My heart seemed full as it could hold ; There was place and to spare for the frank young smile, And the red young mouth, and the hair's young gold. So, hush, — I will give you this leaf to keep : See, I shut it inside the sweet cold hand ! There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
Page 73 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 265 - Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
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Page 261 - Praxed in a glory, and one Pan Ready to twitch the Nymph's last garment off. And Moses with the tables ... but I know Ye mark me not! What do they whisper thee, Child of my bowels, Anselm?
Page 45 - Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves, Where, other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves; And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love.
Page 276 - It was not her time to love ; beside, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little cares, And now was quiet, now astir, Till God's hand beckoned unawares, — And the sweet white brow is all of her.