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Page 115
... ment , confronted by what appeared to be a heart- less world , heedless of all that men hold precious : " The stars , she whispers , ' blindly run ; A web is woven across the sky ; From out waste places comes a cry , And murmurs from ...
... ment , confronted by what appeared to be a heart- less world , heedless of all that men hold precious : " The stars , she whispers , ' blindly run ; A web is woven across the sky ; From out waste places comes a cry , And murmurs from ...
Page 137
... age in which he toiled gave him small encourage- ment . His genius was recognised by such great minds as John Ruskin , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and George F. Watts ; but judged by any ordinary IN MODERN LITERATURE 137.
... age in which he toiled gave him small encourage- ment . His genius was recognised by such great minds as John Ruskin , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and George F. Watts ; but judged by any ordinary IN MODERN LITERATURE 137.
Page 179
... ment in voluptuousness to submit to voluntary privation . I always thought St. Paul's rule that we should die daily an exquisite Epicurean maxim . " Of course it is . If we would gain our lives here we must carry a cross . The Puritan ...
... ment in voluptuousness to submit to voluntary privation . I always thought St. Paul's rule that we should die daily an exquisite Epicurean maxim . " Of course it is . If we would gain our lives here we must carry a cross . The Puritan ...
Page 224
... ment . It was to faith he owed the conviction uttered in burning words to the youth of his land : " Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling : not a mean and grovelling thing that we are to shuffle through as ...
... ment . It was to faith he owed the conviction uttered in burning words to the youth of his land : " Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling : not a mean and grovelling thing that we are to shuffle through as ...
Page 229
... of sodium vapour , and when he saw the subduing effect of his experi- ment upon the band , he left the laboratory hastily with the words : " That seems to me a funda- - mental fact . " He had discovered , by his IN MODERN LITERATURE 229.
... of sodium vapour , and when he saw the subduing effect of his experi- ment upon the band , he left the laboratory hastily with the words : " That seems to me a funda- - mental fact . " He had discovered , by his IN MODERN LITERATURE 229.
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