The Literary World, Volume 30S.R. Crocker, 1899 - Literature |
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... printed and worthy successors of the soldiers and sail - bound in dignified covers of dark blue cloth , ors who , under the lead of George Wash - lettered in gold and stamped with the device ington , won American Independence . " It of ...
... printed and worthy successors of the soldiers and sail - bound in dignified covers of dark blue cloth , ors who , under the lead of George Wash - lettered in gold and stamped with the device ington , won American Independence . " It of ...
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... printed page . In other words , Shakespeare , White Heather , Sabina Zembra , the modern in English play is a mere scaffolding , The Wise Women of Inverness , The Strange which demands the skill of the architect much Adventures of a ...
... printed page . In other words , Shakespeare , White Heather , Sabina Zembra , the modern in English play is a mere scaffolding , The Wise Women of Inverness , The Strange which demands the skill of the architect much Adventures of a ...
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... printed in an enlarged and improved form , and appears in an entirely new dress of type throughout . Its editors promise that its illustrations will continue to be as interesting as they are unique , and its letterpress will uphold the ...
... printed in an enlarged and improved form , and appears in an entirely new dress of type throughout . Its editors promise that its illustrations will continue to be as interesting as they are unique , and its letterpress will uphold the ...
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... printed , and is enriched with a dozen or more excellent illustrations from photographs taken by the author , together with a map of the voyage . There are marks , here and there , of hasti- ness in composition ; but the author has ...
... printed , and is enriched with a dozen or more excellent illustrations from photographs taken by the author , together with a map of the voyage . There are marks , here and there , of hasti- ness in composition ; but the author has ...
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... printed vol- ume is sure to be widely read , and by laymen as well as by clergymen . [ IIoughton , Mifflin & Co. $ 1.50 . ] The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria . The second handbook of the History of Re- ligions is the work of the ...
... printed vol- ume is sure to be widely read , and by laymen as well as by clergymen . [ IIoughton , Mifflin & Co. $ 1.50 . ] The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria . The second handbook of the History of Re- ligions is the work of the ...
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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.