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... suddenly on a working day the musician at his piano would go on with his per- formance of Beethoven's Sonata and the cobbler at his stall stick to his last in undisturbed confidence in the virtues of the leather . And with perfect ...
... suddenly on a working day the musician at his piano would go on with his per- formance of Beethoven's Sonata and the cobbler at his stall stick to his last in undisturbed confidence in the virtues of the leather . And with perfect ...
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... suddenly get out into the light of the world - so natural that I offer no excuse for their existence . They were there , they had to come out ; and this is a sufficient excuse for a writer of tales who had taken to his trade without ...
... suddenly get out into the light of the world - so natural that I offer no excuse for their existence . They were there , they had to come out ; and this is a sufficient excuse for a writer of tales who had taken to his trade without ...
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... suddenly , à propos des bottes , as the French say , and while chalking his cue . And perhaps it was some sort of enchantment . There are more spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of . Roughly speaking , a circle with a ...
... suddenly , à propos des bottes , as the French say , and while chalking his cue . And perhaps it was some sort of enchantment . There are more spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of . Roughly speaking , a circle with a ...
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... suddenly he had stumbled on a white man , figuratively and actually white - for Mor- rison refused to accept the racial whiteness of the Portu- guese officials . He let himself go for the mere relief of violent speech , his elbows ...
... suddenly he had stumbled on a white man , figuratively and actually white - for Mor- rison refused to accept the racial whiteness of the Portu- guese officials . He let himself go for the mere relief of violent speech , his elbows ...
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... sudden disfavour at that noble forehead , at those great martial moustaches , at the tired eyes of the man sitting ... suddenly risen and hit him on the nose , he could not have been taken more aback than when this stranger , this ...
... sudden disfavour at that noble forehead , at those great martial moustaches , at the tired eyes of the man sitting ... suddenly risen and hit him on the nose , he could not have been taken more aback than when this stranger , this ...
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Page 288 - Ah, Davidson, woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!
Page 299 - PRESCOTT, WILLIAM H. The Conquest of Mexico and The Conquest of Peru.
Page x - This bestial apparition and a certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti only a couple of months afterwards have fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning rage, as manifested in the human animal, to the end of my days. Of the nigger I used to dream for years afterwards.
Page 128 - Are we likely to be seen on our way?" "No, unless by native craft," said Schomberg. Ricardo nodded, satisfied. Both these white men looked on native life as a mere play of shadows. A play of shadows the dominant race could walk through unaffected and disregarded in the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs. No. Native craft did not count, of course. It was an empty, solitary part of the sea, Schomberg expounded further. Only the Ternate mail-boat crossed that region about the 8th of every...
Page 161 - ... encounters of a world in which love itself rests as much on antagonism as on attraction. His mental attitude was that of a man looking this way and that on a piece of writing which he is unable to decipher, but which may be big with some revelation. He didn't know what to say. All he found to add wa« "I don't even understand what I have done or left undone to distress you like this.
Page 71 - For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Page 286 - Exulting, she saw herself extended on the bed, in a black dress, and profoundly at peace; while, stooping over her with a kindly, playful smile, he was ready to lift her up in his firm arms and take her into the sanctuary of his innermost heart — for ever! The flush of rapture flooding her whole being broke out in a smile of innocent, girlish happiness; and with that divine radiance on her lips she breathed her last, triumphant, seeking for his glance in the shades of death. XIV "YES, Excellency...
Page 300 - THE POEMS AND PLAYS OF TENNYSON. 643. DEWEY, JOHN. Intelligence in the Modern World: John Dewey's Philosophy.
Page 299 - THE POEMS AND PLAYS OF ROBERT BROWNING. Gi8. ELEVEN PLAYS OF HENRIK IBSEN. Gig. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF HOMER.
Page 147 - Apparently it was too long for me." " Well, you were thinking of me, anyhow. I am glad of it. Do you know, it seems to me, somehow, that if you were to stop thinking of me I shouldn't be in the world at all!