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I know of no book which has come down to us with grander pretensions than this, and it is so impersonal and sincere that it is nev ...
"A sigh for every so many breath,
And for every so many sigh a death.
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "facts." They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who do ...
I hear
the tide turning. Last
eager wave over-
taken and pulled back
by first wave of the ebb.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
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The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
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On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
Be known to us in breaking bread,
But do not then depart;
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Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
The great King of kings
Hath in the table of his law commanded
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