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... Heroes - A Narrow Age - True Heroism PAGE 47 CHAPTER V. WHICH TREATS OF LARGE NATURES . ' School ' -The Manager - Lear and Hamlet - Money's True Power -The Age of Elizabeth - Higher Levels - But One Man Wanted -Large Minds Dominated by ...
... Heroes - A Narrow Age - True Heroism PAGE 47 CHAPTER V. WHICH TREATS OF LARGE NATURES . ' School ' -The Manager - Lear and Hamlet - Money's True Power -The Age of Elizabeth - Higher Levels - But One Man Wanted -Large Minds Dominated by ...
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... Hero Diplomacy - Successful Roguery - The True 161 CHAPTER XIV . BRITISH PHILISTINISM . - A New Word - Philistia of Old - Milton's Samson - A shade more Soul - The Barbarians - The People — Mr. Carlyle and the No- bility - Trade - The ...
... Hero Diplomacy - Successful Roguery - The True 161 CHAPTER XIV . BRITISH PHILISTINISM . - A New Word - Philistia of Old - Milton's Samson - A shade more Soul - The Barbarians - The People — Mr. Carlyle and the No- bility - Trade - The ...
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... Heroes - A Narrow Age - True Heroism . N the Malay Archipelago , the pirates of which that great , good , and tender - hearted hero , Sir James Brooke , of Borneo , punished with judicial severity , man - slaying is a proof of greatness ...
... Heroes - A Narrow Age - True Heroism . N the Malay Archipelago , the pirates of which that great , good , and tender - hearted hero , Sir James Brooke , of Borneo , punished with judicial severity , man - slaying is a proof of greatness ...
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... hero . We all have heroes and heroines - of a sort . Some pick out those who are distinguished from other men solely by their good looks , platonically supposing that to look good and to be good are the same ; others will demand ...
... hero . We all have heroes and heroines - of a sort . Some pick out those who are distinguished from other men solely by their good looks , platonically supposing that to look good and to be good are the same ; others will demand ...
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... hero she has tricked out with the rainbow colours of love , and that she does not even know the selfish prig of a citizen's son , who struts about in his bones , his flesh , his good looks , his blue eyes , his curls , and his clothes ...
... hero she has tricked out with the rainbow colours of love , and that she does not even know the selfish prig of a citizen's son , who struts about in his bones , his flesh , his good looks , his blue eyes , his curls , and his clothes ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.