Works, Bind 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 |
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Side ix
... less gifted with the power of expression . One of the younger Cambridge men with whom he became intimate during his peri- odical pilgrimages to the university was Edward B. Cowell , a man of the highest attainment in Oriental learning ...
... less gifted with the power of expression . One of the younger Cambridge men with whom he became intimate during his peri- odical pilgrimages to the university was Edward B. Cowell , a man of the highest attainment in Oriental learning ...
Side xii
... less than in his more deliberate actions . Indeed , his entire career was marked by an unchanging goodness of heart and a genial kindliness ; and no one could complain of having ever endured hurt or ill - treatment at his hands . His ...
... less than in his more deliberate actions . Indeed , his entire career was marked by an unchanging goodness of heart and a genial kindliness ; and no one could complain of having ever endured hurt or ill - treatment at his hands . His ...
Side xvii
... bearing the publisher's name but not the author's ; and although apparently a complete failure at first , a failure which Mr. Fitzgerald regretted less B on his own account than on that of his publisher BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xvii.
... bearing the publisher's name but not the author's ; and although apparently a complete failure at first , a failure which Mr. Fitzgerald regretted less B on his own account than on that of his publisher BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xvii.
Side 11
... less than equal proportion of the " Drink and make - merry , " which ( genuine or not ) recurs over - frequently in the Original . Either way , the Result is sad enough : saddest perhaps when most ostentatiously merry : more apt to move ...
... less than equal proportion of the " Drink and make - merry , " which ( genuine or not ) recurs over - frequently in the Original . Either way , the Result is sad enough : saddest perhaps when most ostentatiously merry : more apt to move ...
Side 16
... less liable to mistake or abuse had been better among so inflammable a People : much more so when , as some think with Háfiz and Omar , the abstract is not only likened to , but identified with , the sensual Image ; hazardous , if not ...
... less liable to mistake or abuse had been better among so inflammable a People : much more so when , as some think with Háfiz and Omar , the abstract is not only likened to , but identified with , the sensual Image ; hazardous , if not ...
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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.