Current Literature, Volume 22Current Literature Publishing Company, 1897 |
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... Look , " writes a well - known English author , with no reference to American education , but in words almost perfectly true of it : " Look , " he says , " how the English people treat their children . Try and discover from the way they ...
... Look , " writes a well - known English author , with no reference to American education , but in words almost perfectly true of it : " Look , " he says , " how the English people treat their children . Try and discover from the way they ...
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... Looks , but Speaking both in Public and Private : -This is to inform all such , that they may have them re - placed ... Look , for in- stance , at this touching and ingenious tribute to Bacchus that appeared in a Baltimore paper in 1788 ...
... Looks , but Speaking both in Public and Private : -This is to inform all such , that they may have them re - placed ... Look , for in- stance , at this touching and ingenious tribute to Bacchus that appeared in a Baltimore paper in 1788 ...
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... looks he cast towards them , would have broken in and freed him ; but they , too , were by enchantment held there in the ... look as he whirled round and round again . But at length , with never a stay in the music , his partner's feet ...
... looks he cast towards them , would have broken in and freed him ; but they , too , were by enchantment held there in the ... look as he whirled round and round again . But at length , with never a stay in the music , his partner's feet ...
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... look where you will in vain for more accurate - startlingly accurate , indeed , in the essential truth of the words - pictorial representations of his various models ; unless , perchance , it be in the work of the Japanese Kiosai . And ...
... look where you will in vain for more accurate - startlingly accurate , indeed , in the essential truth of the words - pictorial representations of his various models ; unless , perchance , it be in the work of the Japanese Kiosai . And ...
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... look on at crimes and cruelties afar , and wash their hands of blame : " Yet haply she shall learn too late , In some blind hurricane of fate , How fierily alive the things She held as fools ' imaginings , And , though circuitous and ...
... look on at crimes and cruelties afar , and wash their hands of blame : " Yet haply she shall learn too late , In some blind hurricane of fate , How fierily alive the things She held as fools ' imaginings , And , though circuitous and ...
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Page 84 - IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings ; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page 370 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 285 - Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre ! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget - lest we forget...
Page 285 - The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget— lest we forget!
Page 180 - Tread softly — bow the head — in reverent silence bow ; — no passing bell doth toll, yet an immortal soul is passing now. Stranger ! however great, with lowly reverence bow : there's one in that poor shed — one by that paltry bed — greater than thou.
Page 47 - Over dews, over sands, Will I fly for your weal: Your holy, delicate white hands Shall girdle me with steel. At home, in your emerald bowers, From morning's dawn till e'en, You'll pray for me, my flower of flowers, My Dark Rosaleen!
Page 47 - I could kneel all night in prayer, To heal your many ills! And one . . . beamy smile from you Would float like light between My toils and me, my own, my true, My Dark Rosaleen! My fond Rosaleen! Would give me life and soul anew, A second life, a soul anew, My Dark Rosaleen!
Page 102 - Thracian ships and the foreign faces, The tongueless vigil, and all the pain. Come with bows bent and with emptying of quivers, Maiden most perfect, lady of light, With a noise of winds and many rivers, With a...
Page 180 - BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own ; Then wilt thou see it gleam in many eyes, Then will pure light around thy path be shed, And thou wilt nevermore be sad and lone.
Page 227 - O that I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries; Out of my bed she bids me rise, Says, 'Haste and come to me!