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... tion . But in this way we may make drones or hypocrites of all but the finest and highest spirits . Books that will excite curi- osity are among the best ; leading books , that make the reader ' ask for more . ' Further on in life , we ...
... tion . But in this way we may make drones or hypocrites of all but the finest and highest spirits . Books that will excite curi- osity are among the best ; leading books , that make the reader ' ask for more . ' Further on in life , we ...
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... tion . The old - fashioned expression , ' Dear Reader , ' has its pro- priety . Readers seem like old friends when we have been able to interest them . Affection depends more on the heart and mind than on the eyes , and those who ...
... tion . The old - fashioned expression , ' Dear Reader , ' has its pro- priety . Readers seem like old friends when we have been able to interest them . Affection depends more on the heart and mind than on the eyes , and those who ...
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... tion , and incline the mind to quiet reading . The names of such books are nothing more than a sort of poetic shadowing forth of their contents . If one writes a novel or an essay , a satire or a poem , its title may be a direct and ...
... tion , and incline the mind to quiet reading . The names of such books are nothing more than a sort of poetic shadowing forth of their contents . If one writes a novel or an essay , a satire or a poem , its title may be a direct and ...
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... tion ! no balls ! no opportunity for display of dress or equi- page ! In one word - one magic word — no excitement ! Yet we aver that our party enjoyed every day and hour . One proof we can offer , which perhaps will seem yet harder to ...
... tion ! no balls ! no opportunity for display of dress or equi- page ! In one word - one magic word — no excitement ! Yet we aver that our party enjoyed every day and hour . One proof we can offer , which perhaps will seem yet harder to ...
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... higher selves into communica- tion with the secret hearts of those about us . People walking at leisure over a flowery plain , with no fixed object in view , no difficulties to surmount , no advice to ask , no SEARCH AFTER PLEASURE . 57.
... higher selves into communica- tion with the secret hearts of those about us . People walking at leisure over a flowery plain , with no fixed object in view , no difficulties to surmount , no advice to ask , no SEARCH AFTER PLEASURE . 57.
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Page 142 - No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust ; And oft, when in my heart was heard...
Page 142 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad hearts ! without reproach or blot ; Who do thy work and know it not ; Oh ! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power ! around them cast.
Page 206 - The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness...
Page 77 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 265 - 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.
Page 222 - ... encumbered with claims — and took up her own abode on the new plantation. Living in an humble dwelling — and relinquishing many of her habitual comforts — -she devoted herself with such zeal, untiring industry, and indomitable resolution to the attainment of her object, that her success triumphed over every difficulty, and exceeded the expectations of all who had discouraged her. She not only paid her husband's debts to the full, but secured for her children and descendants a handsome and...
Page 220 - how came you here ?' "'Oh, I thought, 'replied I, 'you would need nurses as well as soldiers.
Page 117 - Impostor, do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance...
Page 63 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover...
Page 143 - Why, assure you, signior, rich apparel has strange virtues : it makes him that hath it without means, esteemed for an excellent wit : he that enjoys it with means, puts the world in remembrance of his means : it helps the deformities of nature, and gives lustre to her beauties ; makes continual holiday where it shines...