The Life of Henry Morley, LL. D.

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E. Arnold, 1898 - 410 pàgines

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Pàgina 10 - Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE.
Pàgina 280 - Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long : and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. 7 For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain : he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
Pàgina 18 - One of the very rare novels which yield so much pleasure that it almost stifles criticism. Miss Coleridge's quality is that of perfectly original brilliancy in romantic narration. Her style is at once placid and spirited, full of colour without heaviness and luxury, correct, rapid, adequate, with no tedious research of " the word,
Pàgina 5 - There is not a dull page in it from first to last, and the present generation will have no excuse for ignorance of all that was best and most brilliant in the society of the middle of this century as long as a copy of " Many Memories
Pàgina 14 - WHAT IS POETRY ?' An Answer to the Question, ' What is Poetry ?' including Remarks on Versification. By LEIGH HUNT. Edited, with notes, by Professor AS COOK. Crown 8vo., cloth, 2s. 6d.
Pàgina 2 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Pàgina 295 - Than if my ashes did lie hid Under some stately pyramid. If a rich tomb makes happy, then That Bee was happier far than men, Who, busy in the thymy wood, Was fettered by the golden flood, Which from the Amber-weeping tree Distilleth down so plenteously ; For so this little wanton elf Most gloriously enshrined itself. A tomb whose beauty might compare With Cleopatra's sepulchre.
Pàgina 358 - I mean to say is but this : there will come a time when three words uttered with charity and meekness shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit.
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Pàgina 295 - Leaving the two-topt Mount divine To turn votaries to his shrine. Think not, reader, me less blest, Sleeping in this narrow chest, Than if my ashes did lie hid Under some stately pyramid. If a rich tomb makes happy, then That Bee was happier far than men, Who, busy in the thymy wood, Was fettered by the golden flood, Which from the Amber-weeping tree Distilleth down so plenteously; I'm so this little wanton elf Most gloriously enshrined itself.

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