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... Ann , there is something exasperating about that ? I was trying to think why it annoyed me now . It is such a contradiction to the tendency of nature towards monotonous repetition . " " You 2 [ January , In War Time .
... Ann , there is something exasperating about that ? I was trying to think why it annoyed me now . It is such a contradiction to the tendency of nature towards monotonous repetition . " " You 2 [ January , In War Time .
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... nature . " I will ask for a net , " she said . " Oh , yes , do , " he returned ; " that's a good woman . " " I am not a good woman , " exclaimed Miss Wendell , " but I will ask about the net . " " Oh , but you will be , if you get me a ...
... nature . " I will ask for a net , " she said . " Oh , yes , do , " he returned ; " that's a good woman . " " I am not a good woman , " exclaimed Miss Wendell , " but I will ask about the net . " " Oh , but you will be , if you get me a ...
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... nature , he re- flected to himself , is inexhaustible , and we may rest sure that on Methuselah's he might have startled his family by some novelty of word or deed . " I hardly know if it be a compli- ment , " he said aloud , with a ...
... nature , he re- flected to himself , is inexhaustible , and we may rest sure that on Methuselah's he might have startled his family by some novelty of word or deed . " I hardly know if it be a compli- ment , " he said aloud , with a ...
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... nature of the most touching of writers , the most lovable of men . " Turgénieff , " said M. " Turgénieff , ” said M. Renan , " received by the mysterious decree which marks out human voca- tions the gift which is noble beyond all others ...
... nature of the most touching of writers , the most lovable of men . " Turgénieff , " said M. " Turgénieff , ” said M. Renan , " received by the mysterious decree which marks out human voca- tions the gift which is noble beyond all others ...
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... nature had given Turgénieff the power to express himself . He was the richest , the most delightful , of talk- ers , and his face , his person , his temper , the thoroughness with which he had been equipped for human intercourse , make ...
... nature had given Turgénieff the power to express himself . He was the richest , the most delightful , of talk- ers , and his face , his person , his temper , the thoroughness with which he had been equipped for human intercourse , make ...
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Página 427 - Dilke on various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason...
Página 98 - Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility.
Página 424 - This morning I am in a sort of temper, indolent and supremely careless — I long after a stanza or two of Thomson's Castle of Indolence — my passions are all asleep, from my having slumbered till nearly eleven, and weakened the animal fibre all over me, to a delightful sensation, about three degrees on this side of faintness. If I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor, but as I am* I must call it laziness.
Página 429 - The little dramatic skill I may as yet have, however badly it might show in a drama, would, I think, be sufficient for a poem. I wish to diffuse the colouring of St. Agnes' Eve throughout a poem in which character and sentiment would be the figures to such drapery.
Página 201 - If you choose to play ! — is my principle. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will!
Página 646 - That general life, which does not cease, Whose secret is not joy, but peace; That life, whose dumb wish is not miss'd If birth proceeds, if things subsist; The life of plants, and stones, and rain, The life he craves — if not in vain Fate gave, what chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
Página 239 - Through God we shall do valiantly : for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Página 648 - Flow'd with the stream ; — all down his cold white side The crimson torrent ran, dim now and soil'd, Like the soil'd tissue of white violets Left, freshly...
Página 646 - But be his My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul, From first youth tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor passion wild ; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole ; The mellow glory of the Attic stage, Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.
Página 427 - This pursued through volumes would perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.