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... I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag?s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dreamt some weeks after reading that most interesting collection of sketches. The return of the squire with the tidings of the death of the two knights was vividly depicted in sleep; an...

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...ternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light had begun to ebb, the air had grown mellow, the shadows were long upon the smooth, dense turf. They lengthened slowly, however, and the scene expressed that sense of leisure still...

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...hat was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light had begun to ebb, the air ha... ...nt colours. He disposed of its contents with much circumspection, holding it for a long time close to his chin, with his face turned to the house. His... ...at the end of twenty years, had become conscious of a real aesthetic passion for it, so that he knew all its points and would tell you just where to s... ...ood deal of a vagabond, and she had spent much ingenuity in training it to a military step and teaching it to advance, to halt, to retreat, to perform... ...she was indeed very pretty and that she formed the ornament of those various military stations, chiefly in the unfashionable West, to which, to her dee... .... Miss Molyneux, who had a smooth, nun like forehead and wore a large silver cross suspended from her neck, was evidently preoccupied with Hen rietta... ...ary quiet in her. Isabel was sure moreover that her mild forehead and silver cross referred to some weird Anglican mystery—some delightful reinstituti... ...ow what to talk to your sister about; she looks so different. Is that silver cross a badge?” “A badge?” “A sign of rank.” Lord Warburton’s glance had ... ... and she pointed out to Isabel that as he had been there before, as he was a military man and as he had had a classical education—he had been bred at ...

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...nto the heart of black mountains. Examining his ticket with an apparent curiosity, the son of a greener island debated whether it would not be better for him to follow his inclinations, now that he had gone so far as to pay for the journey, and stay. But his inclinations were also subject to question, upon his considering that he had expended pounds English for the privile...

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...ues Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime. And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th? upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know?st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad?st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the hi...

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... dost prefer Before all Temples th’ upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know’st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty win... ...Eternal Providence, 25 And justifie the wayes of God to men. Say first, for Heav’n hides nothing from thy view Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say ... ...v’n so highly, to fall off 30 From their Creator, and transgress his Will For one restraint, Lords of the World besides? Who first seduc’d them t... ...lest temper Hero’s old Arming to Battel, and in stead of rage Deliberate valour breath’d, firm and unmov’d With dread of death to flight or foul... ... and look’d a while, Pondering his Voyage; for no narrow frith He had to cross. Nor was his eare less peal’d 920 With noises loud and ruinous (to... ...now at foot 485 Of Heav’ns ascent they lift thir Feet, when loe A violent cross wind from either Coast Blows them transverse ten thousand Leagues... ... bent to unhoord the cash Of some rich Burgher, whose substantial dores, Cross-barrd and bolted fast, fear no assault, 190 In at the window climb... ..., fit body to fit head; Was this your discipline and faith ingag’d, Your military obedience, to dissolve 955 Allegeance to th’ acknowledg’d Power... ...ght of merit Reigns. Goe MICHAEL of Celestial Armies Prince, And thou in Military prowess next 45 GABRIEL, lead forth to Battel these my Sons I...

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...tions, that they might not be trodden under foot, seeing that an ample crop has been snatched away already by the hostile reapers of foreign nations. For many things have been in my way, and I, to this day, have hardly been able to understand, even superficially, as was necessary, the sayings of other men; much less was I able in my own strength, but like a barbarian, have...

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... goes from one to another between two natures, and, what is worse, between two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our ...

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