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... fancy a cause as majestic as our con- ception of the effect . There was , indeed , one poetic side to the existence otherwise so narrow and practical ; and to have conceived this , how- ever partially , is the one original and American ...
... fancy a cause as majestic as our con- ception of the effect . There was , indeed , one poetic side to the existence otherwise so narrow and practical ; and to have conceived this , how- ever partially , is the one original and American ...
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... fancy over regions laid down upon no map , and con- cerning which authentic history is enviously dumb . Those long bead - rolls of Keltic kings cannot tyrannize over us , and we can be patient so long as our own crowns are uncracked by ...
... fancy over regions laid down upon no map , and con- cerning which authentic history is enviously dumb . Those long bead - rolls of Keltic kings cannot tyrannize over us , and we can be patient so long as our own crowns are uncracked by ...
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... Fancy John Win- throp , Jr. , with all the affairs of the Connecticut Colony on his back , expected to prescribe alike for the spiritual and bodily ailments of all the hypochondriacs in his government , and with Philip's war impending ...
... Fancy John Win- throp , Jr. , with all the affairs of the Connecticut Colony on his back , expected to prescribe alike for the spiritual and bodily ailments of all the hypochondriacs in his government , and with Philip's war impending ...
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... fancy , Prynne has it as clearly in depth of sentiment . There could be little doubt which of the parties represented by these men would have the better if it came to a death- grapple . There is curiously little sentiment in these ...
... fancy , Prynne has it as clearly in depth of sentiment . There could be little doubt which of the parties represented by these men would have the better if it came to a death- grapple . There is curiously little sentiment in these ...
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... fancy him as on the whole a decided and even choleric old gentleman , in whom the wig , though . not a predominant , was yet a notable feature , and who was , like many other fathers , perma- nently astonished at the fruit of his loins ...
... fancy him as on the whole a decided and even choleric old gentleman , in whom the wig , though . not a predominant , was yet a notable feature , and who was , like many other fathers , perma- nently astonished at the fruit of his loins ...
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Страница 161 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Страница 255 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro. Tis new to thee.
Страница 143 - The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. 'Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Страница 19 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Страница 19 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Страница 279 - Lifting himself out of the lowly dust On golden plumes up to the purest skie...
Страница 299 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Страница 308 - Another Damzell, as a precious gemme Amidst a ring most richly well enchaced, That with her goodly presence all the rest much graced.
Страница 263 - That same framing of his style to an old rustic language I dare not allow, since neither Theocritus in Greek, Virgil in Latin, nor Sannazzaro in Italian did affect it.
Страница 320 - There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago."— Spence's Anecdotes.