Great Short Biographies of the World: A Collection of Short Biographies, Literary Portraits, and Memoirs Chosen from the Literatures of the Ancient and Modern WorldR. M. McBride, 1928 - 1407 pàgines |
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Great Short Biographies of the World: A Collection of Short Biographies ... Barrett Harper Clark Visualització de fragments - 1928 |
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Pàgina 707 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud, instead, and ever-during dark, Surrounds me...
Pàgina 243 - Lo there ! for behold, the kingdom of God is within you. 22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
Pàgina 693 - Or th' unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Pàgina 239 - If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Pàgina 756 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Pàgina 699 - I hope, for that our English, the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption Englished.
Pàgina 707 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Pàgina 698 - And what if the author shall be one so copious of fancy as to have many things well worth...
Pàgina 803 - Auld Ayr is just one lengthen'd, tumbling sea ; Then down ye'll hurl — deil nor ye never rise ! — And dash the gumlie jaups up to the pouring skies ! A lesson sadly teaching, to your cost, That Architecture's noble art is lost !
Pàgina 244 - Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.