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... gave it that position among other institutions and in educational circles which for want of a better word I will call " tone . " No one who did not know his marked personality , his polished manner , his dignity and grace , his ...
... gave it that position among other institutions and in educational circles which for want of a better word I will call " tone . " No one who did not know his marked personality , his polished manner , his dignity and grace , his ...
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... gave the long , low Menagerie call . The sound thun- dered back and forth among the buildings and then was faintly echoed by the distant hills . " Wrinkle my skin , Jumbo , but you've spoilt 1900 ] 13 The Tuftonian .
... gave the long , low Menagerie call . The sound thun- dered back and forth among the buildings and then was faintly echoed by the distant hills . " Wrinkle my skin , Jumbo , but you've spoilt 1900 ] 13 The Tuftonian .
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... gave the Alligator another wink which was answered by a snapping together of the jaws . " I'll give the boys up stairs just two minutes to get the better of Giraffe and Dromedary , and then we'll have those Rochester people down here ...
... gave the Alligator another wink which was answered by a snapping together of the jaws . " I'll give the boys up stairs just two minutes to get the better of Giraffe and Dromedary , and then we'll have those Rochester people down here ...
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... gave me some tea and I plucked up courage to ask what ailed the doctor . She moved the tea - pot to the back of the stove and resumed her seat in the rocker before replying . “ ' Tis a graund nicht fer spooks , laddie , " she said at ...
... gave me some tea and I plucked up courage to ask what ailed the doctor . She moved the tea - pot to the back of the stove and resumed her seat in the rocker before replying . “ ' Tis a graund nicht fer spooks , laddie , " she said at ...
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... gave me an ugly turn . " " I had no intention " -I began , but he stopped me . " Tut - tut , I know it , boy , you've always been a good lad and you meant no harm . You didn't understand , " he stopped and fidgeted in his chair ; twice ...
... gave me an ugly turn . " " I had no intention " -I began , but he stopped me . " Tut - tut , I know it , boy , you've always been a good lad and you meant no harm . You didn't understand , " he stopped and fidgeted in his chair ; twice ...
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Page 79 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Page 84 - AH, what is love ? It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king ; And sweeter too, For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown : Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain...
Page 79 - Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband. — Look you now, what follows : Here is your husband ; like a mildew'd ear, Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor?
Page 77 - Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes? You cannot call it love, for at your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment; and what judgment Would step from this to this? Sense...
Page 68 - listed, That carries no colours or crest. But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.
Page 113 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 230 - BE and continue poor, young man, while others around you grow rich by fraud and disloyalty ; be without place or power, while others beg their way upward ; bear the pain of disappointed hopes, while others gain the accomplishment of theirs by flattery ; forego the gracious pressure of the hand, for which others cringe and crawl. Wrap yourself in your own virtue, and seek a friend, and your daily bread. If you have, in such a course, grown gray with unblenched honour, bless God, and die.
Page 202 - Gent, being Sick and weak of Body but of perfect Mind and Memory...
Page 77 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 137 - Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue.