Rambles Among Words: Their Poetry, History and WisdomIvison, 1880 - Всего страниц: 302 |
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... tell of human frailty and depravity ; grand often are they in their beautiful scorn of the mean and ignoble . How fine the allusion conveyed in ' WORSHIP , ' which is indeed just one's worth - ship ! ' DECENT , ' too ,
... tell of human frailty and depravity ; grand often are they in their beautiful scorn of the mean and ignoble . How fine the allusion conveyed in ' WORSHIP , ' which is indeed just one's worth - ship ! ' DECENT , ' too ,
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... ONE'S WITS , ' that is , to be out of one's senses . It also intimates a curious piece of metaphysics : as though the sole ' source ' of wit and wisdom were through the avenues of the senses . In Chaucer I find the following instance of ...
... ONE'S WITS , ' that is , to be out of one's senses . It also intimates a curious piece of metaphysics : as though the sole ' source ' of wit and wisdom were through the avenues of the senses . In Chaucer I find the following instance of ...
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... one's life is the quality of his love ! " And perhaps there is a profounder veracity than we might be apt to suppose in the old maxim : Quantum sumus scimus . At least it might do us no harm to have a little more faith in heart ...
... one's life is the quality of his love ! " And perhaps there is a profounder veracity than we might be apt to suppose in the old maxim : Quantum sumus scimus . At least it might do us no harm to have a little more faith in heart ...
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... one's æsthetic judg- ments . However , so be it : since De gustibus non est disputandum . Now besides all this , we are acquainted with at least one northern European nation ( not to mention the Chinese ) , who hold that the soul lies ...
... one's æsthetic judg- ments . However , so be it : since De gustibus non est disputandum . Now besides all this , we are acquainted with at least one northern European nation ( not to mention the Chinese ) , who hold that the soul lies ...
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... one's taking ' UMBRAGE ' we simply idealize a shadow , umbra - the dark shade that passes over one's mind . ' SUPERCILIOUS ' is a picturesque translation of the act of raising the eyebrows or supercilium - the natural expression of ...
... one's taking ' UMBRAGE ' we simply idealize a shadow , umbra - the dark shade that passes over one's mind . ' SUPERCILIOUS ' is a picturesque translation of the act of raising the eyebrows or supercilium - the natural expression of ...
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