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1) 123. Shell. James Stephens. Modern British Poetry
...AND then I pressed the shell Close to my ear And listened well, And straightway like a bell Came low and clear 5 The slow, sad murmur of the distant seas, Whipped...

2) 28771. Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...thee from heaven with a dome more vast,Till thou at length art free,Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! ATTRIBUTION:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894),...

3) 47. His Pilgrimage. Sir Walter Raleigh. 1909-14. English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray. The Harvard Classics
...25 At those clear wells Where sweetness dwells, Drawn up by saints in crystal buckets. And when our bottles and all we Are filled with immortality, 30 Then the blessed...

4) 801. The Chambered Nautilus. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 1909-14. English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman. The Harvard Classics
...with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life s unresting sea! 35...

5) 126. Morning Song From "Senlin." Conrad Aiken. Modern American Poetry
...of space. 20 There are houses hanging above the stars And stars hung under a sea. And a sun far off in a shell of silence Dapples my walls for me. It is morning,...

6) Wordsworth, William. 1888. Complete Poetical Works.
...While listlessly I sate, and, having closed The book, had turned my eyes toward the wide sea. On poetry and geometric truth, And their high privilege of lasting life,...

7) 289. The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode. Thomas Gray. 1909-14. English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray. The Harvard Classics
...Idalia s velvet-green The rosy-crownéd Loves are seen On Cytherea s day, With antic Sport, and blue-eyed Pleasures, 30 Frisking light in frolic measures; Now pursuing,...

8) 794. A Night in Italy. Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton. The Oxford Book of English Verse
...dead hand? Why plant the rose above the lonely grave? Why bring the corpse across the salt sea-wave? 15 Why deem the dead more near in native land? Thy name hath...

9) Beauty. XVIII. Essays. 1860. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1909-14. Essays and English Traits. The Harvard Classics
...built man to walk well. The tint of the flower proceeds from its root, and the lustres of the sea-shell begin with its existence. Hence our taste in building rejects...

10) I. Introduction. Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable
...circular disk of the earth was crossed from west to east and divided into two equal parts by the Sea, as they called the Mediterranean, and its continuation the Euxine,...

11) §5. Ben Jonson s Masques. XIII. Masque and Pastoral. Vol. 6. The Drama to 1642, Part Two. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...on those waters and rise with the billow ; the torch-bearing Oceaniae are on the backs of six huge sea-monsters, disposed round the great shell. Cunningly placed...

12) Biographical Sketches. Untermeyer, Louis, ed. 1920. Modern British Poetry
...the lightest and most musical lyrics in Hawthorn and Lavender (1898). The bulk of Henley's poetry is not great in volume. He has himself explained the small quantity...

13) §4. The French "Speculum Meditantis" ("Mirour de l Omme"). VI. John Gower. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...The robe of Conscience is like a cloud with ever-changing hues. Devotion is like the sea-shell, which opens to the dew of heaven, and thus conceives the fair, white...

14) 23. The Elements of Poetry by George Santayana. Morley, Christopher, ed. 1921. Modern Essays
...riches of this dream the poet fetches his wares. He dips into the chaos tat underlies the rational shell of the world and brings up some superfluous image, some emotion...

15) §10. "Two Years Ago". XI. The Political And Social Novel. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...himself had he not made his poem a tribute to the sea and even to the >Silvery fish, wreathed shell, and the strange lithe things of the water. His own favourite...

16) I. Poetry. General Introduction. By Carleton Noyes. 1909-14. Lectures on the Harvard Classics. The Harvard Classics
...immediate and actual world he adds: The gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet s dream. Thus to transfigure the world and...

17) 649. Maud. Part II. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 1909-14. English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman. The Harvard Classics
...O God, as she 100 Have a grain of love for me, So long, no doubt, no doubt, Shall I nurse in my dark heart, However weary, a spark of will Not to be trampled out....

18) The Poet. X. Essays. 1844. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1909-14. Essays and English Traits. The Harvard Classics
...overleapt the horizon s edge, Searched with Apollo s privilege; Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, Saw the dance of nature forward far; Through worlds, and...

19) Notes. Hopkins, Gerard Manley. 1918. Poems
...Withouten instrument, or conch, or bell, Or stretch d chords tuneable on turtle s shell; Only with utterance of sweet breath they sung An antique chaunt and in an...

20) Chapter I. Darwin, Charles Robert. 1909-14. The Voyage of the Beagle. The Harvard Classics
...smell given out, and loss of colour under the blow-pipe—it shows a close similarity with living sea-shells. Moreover, in sea-shells, it is known that the parts habitually...

21) Chapter 1. Lewis, Sinclair. 1922. Babbitt
...was again dreaming of the fairy child, a dream more romantic than scarlet pagodas by a silver sea. 7 For years the fairy child had come to him. Where others saw but...

22) Chapter 18. The Perils of the Soul. § 2. Absence and Recall of the Soul. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
...flight. This conception has probably left traces in most languages, and it lingers as a metaphor in poetry. The Malays carry out the conception of the bird-soul in...

23) 7. Poetry To-Day in America—Shakspere—The Future. Collect. Whitman, Walt. 1892. Prose Works
...greed for the beautiful, all the balances of truth and justice disappear. There is a lust, a disease of the art faculties, which eats up the moral like a cancer....

24) VII. The Value of Greek and Latin in English Literature. Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur. 1920. On the Art of Reading
...14 He goes on: Looking, then, at the countries which surround the Mediterranean Sea as a whole, I see them to be, from time immemorial, the seat of an association...

25) 31. Sleep and Poetry. Keats, John. 1884. Poetical Works
...of ether, to the small Breath of new buds unfolding? From the meaning Of Jove s large eye-brow, to the tender greening 170 Of April meadows? Here her altar shone,...

26) Notes. Keats, John. 1884. Poetical Works
...to take a favourite word of his youth,—to conceal that native Hellenism which was recognized by Shelley. A similar criticism may be made, not unfrequently, upon the...

27) Book 1, Chapter 2. Spires and Gargoyles. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. 1920. This Side of Paradise
...of the Princetonian, he wrenched his knee seriously enough to put him out for the rest of the season. This forced him to retire and consider the situation. "12 Univee"...

28) 18. Samuel Butler: Diogenes of the Victorians by Stuart P. Sherman. Morley, Christopher, ed. 1921. Modern Essays
...But he marks a difference. Alethea was handsome. Miss Savage, he says, was short, fat, had hip disease, and that kind of dowdiness which I used to associate with...

29) Walking [1862]. Henry David Thoreau. 1909-14. Essays: English and American. The Harvard Classics
...stars brighter, I trust that these facts are symbolical of the height to which the philosophy and poetry and religion of her inhabitants may one day soar. At length,...

30) XVI. Children s Books: Bibliography. Vol. 11. The Period of the French Revolution. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...1889. Followed by many other volumes under the title of the cover colour. —The Blue Poetry Book. 1891. —The Nursery Rhyme Book. 1897. See, also, s.v. Grimm, Perrault,...


31) 13. Walking by Henry David Thoreau. Matthews, Brander, ed. 1914. The Oxford Book of American Essays
...stars brighter, I trust that these facts are symbolical of the height to which the philosophy and poetry and religion of her inhabitants may one day soar. At length,...

32) Biographical Sketch
...thought. His lessons were child's play to him. His love of nature was intense, and the sparkling poetry of his mind shone out of his speaking eyes when he was dwelling...


33) Wordsworth, William. 1888. Complete Poetical Works.
...upon a dead body, regarded the same with slight, if not with contempt, saying, "See the shell of the flown bird!" But it is not to be supposed that the moral and...


34) Paras. 1–99. Balzac, Honoré de. 1917. Old Goriot. Vol. XIII, Part 1. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
...every one in a black varnished frame, with a gilt beading round it; you know the sort of tortoise-shell clock case, inlaid with brass; the green stove, the Argand...

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