The Living Age, Volumen295Living Age Company, 1917 |
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... keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself and other people , I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter . When the Prince Regent's librarian suggested that she should delineate the habits of life of a ...
... keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself and other people , I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter . When the Prince Regent's librarian suggested that she should delineate the habits of life of a ...
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... keep a spare room for a friend , " Jane Austen probably hated her sister , Lady Bertram , more than most of her other odious characters . She was a woman who spent her days in sitting nicely dressed on a sofa , doing some long pieces of ...
... keep a spare room for a friend , " Jane Austen probably hated her sister , Lady Bertram , more than most of her other odious characters . She was a woman who spent her days in sitting nicely dressed on a sofa , doing some long pieces of ...
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... . Christina went to her room with a strange dizzy sense of fatality . She had to keep herself in check . That all - prevailing duty steadied her . Wom- an's essential virtue , self - control , was the 22 Christina's Son .
... . Christina went to her room with a strange dizzy sense of fatality . She had to keep herself in check . That all - prevailing duty steadied her . Wom- an's essential virtue , self - control , was the 22 Christina's Son .
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... keep their illusions of the complete sympa- thy of their nearest and dearest com- panions will not be inclusively confi- dential , holding a few reserves , temper- ing their enthusiasms to the shorn wind of a possible jealousy . Nor ...
... keep their illusions of the complete sympa- thy of their nearest and dearest com- panions will not be inclusively confi- dential , holding a few reserves , temper- ing their enthusiasms to the shorn wind of a possible jealousy . Nor ...
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... keep it clear of the high rushes which fringed the willow - lined banks of the quiet backwater , was in no mood to be " reasonable . " How could anyone of ordinary flesh and blood be reasonable in a punt with Nan ? How altogether ...
... keep it clear of the high rushes which fringed the willow - lined banks of the quiet backwater , was in no mood to be " reasonable . " How could anyone of ordinary flesh and blood be reasonable in a punt with Nan ? How altogether ...
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Página 4 - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Página 654 - Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely, 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
Página 648 - ANOTHER year ! — another deadly blow ! Another mighty Empire overthrown ! And We are left, or shall be left, alone ; The last that dare to struggle with the Foe. 'Tis well ! from this day forward we shall know That in ourselves our safety must be sought ; That by our own right hands it must be wrought ; That we must stand unpropped, or be laid low.
Página 486 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun: If e'er when faith had fall'n' asleep, I heard a voice, "Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answered, "I have felt.
Página 59 - To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured.
Página 60 - Let me suggest also that every one who creates or cultivates a garden helps and helps greatly to solve the problem of the feeding of the nations and that every housewife who practices strict economy puts herself in the ranks of those who serve the nation. This is the time for America to correct her unpardonable fault of wastefulness and extravagance.
Página 108 - We cannot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a guarantee of anything that is to endure, unless explicitly supported by such conclusive evidence of the will and purpose of the German people themselves as the other peoples of the world would be justified in accepting.
Página 15 - ... all our reasonings concerning causes and effects, are derived, from nothing but custom; and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of 'our natures.
Página 59 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Página ix - Oh! it is only a novel!" replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. - "It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.