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... becomes an interesting question to the Emperor's other neighbours to know which of them occupies the post of honour . Clearly the victim must be sought upon the eastern frontier ; for from time immemorial the Pyrenees have proved almost ...
... becomes an interesting question to the Emperor's other neighbours to know which of them occupies the post of honour . Clearly the victim must be sought upon the eastern frontier ; for from time immemorial the Pyrenees have proved almost ...
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... become necessary that he should con- tribute to his own maintenance , and , according to varying traditions , he was ... becoming an author also . Strait and narrow enough was the gate of popular authorship in those days . Newspapers ...
... become necessary that he should con- tribute to his own maintenance , and , according to varying traditions , he was ... becoming an author also . Strait and narrow enough was the gate of popular authorship in those days . Newspapers ...
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... become the foe of to - morrow , and forgive- ness of real or imaginary affronts was not an article of his creed . In his later days his eccentricities bordered on mad- ness wrath devoured , and envy made him pale and wan . So terrible ...
... become the foe of to - morrow , and forgive- ness of real or imaginary affronts was not an article of his creed . In his later days his eccentricities bordered on mad- ness wrath devoured , and envy made him pale and wan . So terrible ...
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... become the international code of dramatic legislation , until Versailles was the glass of fashion and the mould of form , ' and Corneille and Racine had shaped their dramas on classical models . In fact , the departure from these models ...
... become the international code of dramatic legislation , until Versailles was the glass of fashion and the mould of form , ' and Corneille and Racine had shaped their dramas on classical models . In fact , the departure from these models ...
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... becomes an absolute virtue in a work which is meant to be truthful and passionless as the voice of time itself . The great defect of the Memoirs is one for which all who have read M. Guizot's lectures will be prepared . Such high powers ...
... becomes an absolute virtue in a work which is meant to be truthful and passionless as the voice of time itself . The great defect of the Memoirs is one for which all who have read M. Guizot's lectures will be prepared . Such high powers ...
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Page 165 - Camelot; And up and down the people go Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro...
Page 58 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Page 193 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 40 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; 5 And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 442 - ... inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow...
Page 227 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. Ban. New honours come upon him Like our strange garments ; cleave not to their mould, But with the aid of use. Macb. Come what come may ; Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Page 88 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy. But there is a space of life between in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted.
Page 429 - ... perhaps, who, indeed, are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my...
Page 189 - Well is it that no child is born of thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws, The craft of kindred and the Godless hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea...