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... Lady Charlotte Guest's Mabinogion ( 1838 ) , a collection of eleven Welsh prose tales . anemony amidst the spray of the meadow fountains . " For loveliness it would be hard to beat that ; and for magical clear- ness and nearness take ...
... Lady Charlotte Guest's Mabinogion ( 1838 ) , a collection of eleven Welsh prose tales . anemony amidst the spray of the meadow fountains . " For loveliness it would be hard to beat that ; and for magical clear- ness and nearness take ...
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... lady " of the sea ; and Thetis , and nymphs innumerable , who , like her , could " suffer a sea change , " while the river deities had each independent power , ac- cording to the the preciousness of their streams to the cities fed by ...
... lady " of the sea ; and Thetis , and nymphs innumerable , who , like her , could " suffer a sea change , " while the river deities had each independent power , ac- cording to the the preciousness of their streams to the cities fed by ...
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... lady over the ficti- tious personages in the play , while her coachman is freezing to death on his seat outside , is the sort of thing that everywhere happens on a less glaring scale . Even the habit of excessive in- dulgence in music ...
... lady over the ficti- tious personages in the play , while her coachman is freezing to death on his seat outside , is the sort of thing that everywhere happens on a less glaring scale . Even the habit of excessive in- dulgence in music ...
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... Lady ) , as well as fiction of genuine literary power , such as the Clayhanger trilogy and the Old Wives ' Tale , which so largely influenced contemporary novelists . But , despite his ability to give the public what it wants , Mr ...
... Lady ) , as well as fiction of genuine literary power , such as the Clayhanger trilogy and the Old Wives ' Tale , which so largely influenced contemporary novelists . But , despite his ability to give the public what it wants , Mr ...
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... ladies that's frightened of the motors , but old ladies aren't never very free with their money - can't afford to be , the most of them , I expect . " " Everybody's sorry for you ; one would have thought that " He interrupted quietly ...
... ladies that's frightened of the motors , but old ladies aren't never very free with their money - can't afford to be , the most of them , I expect . " " Everybody's sorry for you ; one would have thought that " He interrupted quietly ...
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Page 213 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Page 212 - Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia? Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic at heart...
Page 14 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 71 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Page 69 - Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason, but are impatient of privateness, even in age and sickness, which require the shadow ; like old townsmen, that will be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn.
Page 212 - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a Government, following such methods, we can never have a friend ; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic Governments of the world.
Page 211 - While we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very clear, and make very clear to all the world what our motives and our objects are. My own thought has not been driven from its habitual and normal course by the unhappy events of the last two months, and I do not believe that the thought of the nation has been altered or clouded by them.
Page 30 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, As a seal upon thine arm : For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as the grave: The coals thereof are coals of fire, Which hath a most vehement flame.
Page 141 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 14 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...