The Literary World, Volume 30S.R. Crocker, 1899 - Literature |
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... beautiful , and life is absolutely happy , is a noble and fascinating one . " - New Orleans Picayune . trayal what virtues and excellences in life should be culti- " The writer attempts to show in his fascinating por- vated and ...
... beautiful , and life is absolutely happy , is a noble and fascinating one . " - New Orleans Picayune . trayal what virtues and excellences in life should be culti- " The writer attempts to show in his fascinating por- vated and ...
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... beautiful as the one we have now in hand . - Boston Transcript . New England has yielded much material to the story writer - so much , in fact , as almost to justify the suspicion that , like its sterile soil , it has been overworked ...
... beautiful as the one we have now in hand . - Boston Transcript . New England has yielded much material to the story writer - so much , in fact , as almost to justify the suspicion that , like its sterile soil , it has been overworked ...
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... beautiful , and diminish or destroy the enjoy that no other book of the year has met such ment of that which wears the mask of the universal attention , but we are still too near beautiful , but is really inartistic and false . the ...
... beautiful , and diminish or destroy the enjoy that no other book of the year has met such ment of that which wears the mask of the universal attention , but we are still too near beautiful , but is really inartistic and false . the ...
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... beautiful , living in a mean house in a poor part of London , should have suddenly descend upon her an enormously rich young viscount , who under an assumed name woos and wins as did the Lord of Burleigh , and transports his love from ...
... beautiful , living in a mean house in a poor part of London , should have suddenly descend upon her an enormously rich young viscount , who under an assumed name woos and wins as did the Lord of Burleigh , and transports his love from ...
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... beautiful books , and especially to collectors , artists , art students , and practical lithographers . It is published one hundred years after the invention of lithography , and it tells the story of the growth of the art , while its ...
... beautiful books , and especially to collectors , artists , art students , and practical lithographers . It is published one hundred years after the invention of lithography , and it tells the story of the growth of the art , while its ...
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Page 136 - Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world.
Page 136 - And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?
Page 136 - There is no shape more terrible than this — More tongued with censure of the world's blind greed — More filled with signs and portents for the soul — More fraught with menace to the universe.
Page 136 - How will you ever straighten up this shape ; Touch it again with immortality; Give back the upward looking and the light ; Rebuild in it the music and the dream; Make right the immemorial infamies, Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes?
Page 227 - Thrilled through the vaulted aisles and died away; The yearning of the tones which bade rejoice Was sad and tender as a requiem lay: Our shadowy congregation rested still As brooding on that 'End it when you will.
Page 105 - Go to your work and be strong, halting not in your ways, Baulking the end half-won for an instant dole of praise. Stand to your work and be wise — certain of sword and pen, Who are neither children nor Gods, but men in a world of men ! THE FIRST CHANTEY.
Page 136 - Rebuild in it the music and the dream; Make right the immemorial infamies, Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes? O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, How will the Future reckon with this Man? How answer his brute question in that hour When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the world?
Page 227 - Yes, here and there some weary wanderer In that same city of tremendous night Will understand the speech, and feel a stir Of fellowship in all-disastrous fight; "I suffer mute and lonely, yet another Uplifts his voice to let me know a brother Travels the same wild paths though out of sight.
Page 55 - For there is a time to fight, and a time to dig. You Samoans may fight, you may conquer twenty times, and thirty times, and all will be in vain. There is but one way to defend Samoa. Hear it before it is too late. It is to make roads and gardens, and care for your trees, and sell their produce wisely, and, in one word, to occupy and use your country. If you do not, others will.
Page 294 - ... be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.