Treasures from the Prose World: With Biographical SketchesElliott & Beezley, 1886 - 400 páginas |
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... present , we enter the province of a text - book upon literature . We should view the tributaries from the different tongues of the world , - their nature and the influence they have had upon the prog- ress and usefulness of the main ...
... present , we enter the province of a text - book upon literature . We should view the tributaries from the different tongues of the world , - their nature and the influence they have had upon the prog- ress and usefulness of the main ...
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... present but the cold superfices of character - its rich and genial qualities have no time to be warmed into a flow . It is in the country that the Englishman gives scope to his natural feelings . He breaks loose gladly from the cold ...
... present but the cold superfices of character - its rich and genial qualities have no time to be warmed into a flow . It is in the country that the Englishman gives scope to his natural feelings . He breaks loose gladly from the cold ...
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... present as it was formerly ; the larger estates having , in late years of distress , absorbed the smaller , and , in some parts of the country , almost annihilated the sturdy race of small farmers . These , however , I believe , are but ...
... present as it was formerly ; the larger estates having , in late years of distress , absorbed the smaller , and , in some parts of the country , almost annihilated the sturdy race of small farmers . These , however , I believe , are but ...
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... present lords of the soil , its tombstones , recording successive gene- rations of sturdy yeomanry , whose progeny still plow the same fields and kneel at the same altar . The parsonage , a quaint , irregular pile , partly antiquated ...
... present lords of the soil , its tombstones , recording successive gene- rations of sturdy yeomanry , whose progeny still plow the same fields and kneel at the same altar . The parsonage , a quaint , irregular pile , partly antiquated ...
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... present generation , in the name of your country , in the name of liberty , to thank you ! But , alas ! you are not all here ! Time and the sword have thinned your ranks . Prescott , Putnam , Stark , Brooks , Read , Pomeroy , Bridge ...
... present generation , in the name of your country , in the name of liberty , to thank you ! But , alas ! you are not all here ! Time and the sword have thinned your ranks . Prescott , Putnam , Stark , Brooks , Read , Pomeroy , Bridge ...
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angels appeared beautiful behold beneath birds blessed bosom breath called CHARLES DICKENS child clouds cried darkness death deep divine dream earth Eleonora eternal father feel fire flowers FRANKLIN TAYLOR give glory grave hand happiness HARRIET BEECHER STOWE head heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW honor hour human Ivanhoe JOHN RUSKIN JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND labor laugh light literary live Lollard look Lord Lord Lytton man's marriage mind mother NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE nature never night OLIVER GOLDSMITH once pass pleasure poets poor Richard says Rebecca rich round SAMUEL JOHNSON Sangsby seemed shadow side silent soul speak spirit stars sublime sweet tears thee things thou thought tion trees turned Victor Hugo voice WASHINGTON IRVING whole wind window woman wonder words young youth
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Página 275 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Página 275 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 157 - If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting Time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest Prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough...
Página 275 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Página 157 - He that hath a trade, hath an estate ; and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honour,' as Poor Richard says ; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve ; for ' at the working man's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Página 158 - Today. If you were a Servant would you not be ashamed that a good Master should catch you idle? Are you then your own Master, be ashamed to catch yourself idle, as Poor Dick says.
Página 42 - Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else, how changed!
Página 148 - On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt, for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language — nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Página 149 - ... their religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world.
Página 161 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.