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Page 2905 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 3207 - And oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this...
Page 2880 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 2925 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 3209 - Mole in, Their thunder rolling From the Vatican, And cymbals glorious, Swinging uproarious In the gorgeous turrets Of Notre Dame; But thy sounds were sweeter Than the dome of Peter Flings o'er the Tiber, Pealing solemnly.
Page 2909 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Page 2899 - Thirdly, from this liberty of each individual, follows the liberty, within the same limits, of combination among individuals ; freedom to unite, for any purpose not involving harm to others : the persons combining being supposed to be of full age, and not forced or deceived.
Page 2906 - ... renown over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life if it so befell him, the honour and chastity of virgin or matron.
Page 2904 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Page 2914 - Oh, Sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.
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| Title | The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 8 Volume 8 of THE WORLD'S BEST ESSAYS, David Josiah Brewer The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, David Josiah Brewer |
| Editors | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler |
| Publisher | F.P. Kaiser, 1900 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 4190 pages |
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