The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 82Atlantic Monthly Company, 1898 - American essays |
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Page 465 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — to thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 465 - The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.
Page 313 - European species which infests many different plants, and it is spread throughout our country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
Page 57 - At length I saw a lady within call, Stiller than chisell'd marble, standing there ; A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.
Page 167 - Plight (towards the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century...
Page 554 - The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation, this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us.
Page 130 - Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Page 554 - ... we will oppose, with all our means, the forcible interposition of any other power, as auxiliary, stipendiary, or under any other form or pretext, and most especially, their transfer to any power by conquest, cession, or acquisition in any other way.
Page 192 - Et quelle indignité pour ce qui s'appelle homme, D'être baissé sans cesse aux soins matériels, Au lieu de se hausser vers les spirituels ! Le corps, cette guenille, est-il d'une...
Page 167 - When, chill'd by adverse snows and beating rain, We tread with weary steps the longsome plain ; When with hard toil we seek our evening food, Berries and acorns, from the neighbouring wood ; And find among the cliffs no other house, But the thin covert of some gathered boughs Wilt thou not then...