Works, Bind 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 |
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... head of the Persian sect of the Ismailians , - a party of fanatics who had long mur- mured in obscurity , but rose to an evil eminence under the guidance of his strong and evil will . In A. D. 1090 , he seized the castle of Alamút , in ...
... head of the Persian sect of the Ismailians , - a party of fanatics who had long mur- mured in obscurity , but rose to an evil eminence under the guidance of his strong and evil will . In A. D. 1090 , he seized the castle of Alamút , in ...
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... Head for this . Having failed ( however mistakenly ) of finding any Providence but Destiny , and any World but This , he set about making the most of it ; preferring rather to soothe the Soul through the Senses into Acquiescence with ...
... Head for this . Having failed ( however mistakenly ) of finding any Providence but Destiny , and any World but This , he set about making the most of it ; preferring rather to soothe the Soul through the Senses into Acquiescence with ...
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... Head , and he lies fast asleep . XVIII I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Cæsar bled ; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head . XIX And this delightful Herb ...
... Head , and he lies fast asleep . XVIII I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Cæsar bled ; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head . XIX And this delightful Herb ...
Side 29
... Head , but cannot break his Sleep . XIX I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Cæsar bled ; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head . XX And this reviving Herb ...
... Head , but cannot break his Sleep . XIX I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Cæsar bled ; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head . XX And this reviving Herb ...
Side 79
... ; the more curious because almost exactly parall'd by some Verses of Doctor Donne's , that are quoted in Izaak Walton's Lives ! Here is Omar : " You and I are the image of a pair of com- A passes ; though we have two heads ( sc NOTES . 79.
... ; the more curious because almost exactly parall'd by some Verses of Doctor Donne's , that are quoted in Izaak Walton's Lives ! Here is Omar : " You and I are the image of a pair of com- A passes ; though we have two heads ( sc NOTES . 79.
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Side 59 - With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed: And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
Side 434 - ... certain it is that, whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another: he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words: finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Side 73 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Side 48 - You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of t he Vine to Spouse.
Side 20 - Awake! for morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And lo! the hunter of the east has caught The sultan's turret in a noose of light.
Side 76 - The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Side 362 - Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws...
Side 33 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End!
Side 429 - A strange thing, that that part of an orator which is but superficial, and rather the virtue of a player, should be placed so high above those other noble parts of invention, elocution and the rest; nay almost alone, as if it were all in all. But the reason is plain. There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken are most potent.
Side 410 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.