Questions Set at the Examinations ..., Volume 1925

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Pagina 24 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 25 - A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast, And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee.
Pagina 18 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Pagina 23 - But have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination?
Pagina 20 - Ever insurgent let me be, Make me more daring than devout; From sleek contentment keep me free, And fill me with a buoyant doubt. Open my eyes to visions girt With beauty, and with wonder lit — But let me always see the dirt, And all that spawn and die in it. Open my ears to music; let Me thrill with Spring's first flutes and drums — But never let me dare forget The bitter ballads of the slums.
Pagina 20 - GOD, though this life is but a wraith, Although we know not what we use, Although we grope with little faith, Give me the heart to fight — and lose.
Pagina 25 - I heard a fair one cry ; But give to me the snoring breeze, And white waves heaving high ; And white waves heaving high, my boys, The good ship tight and free — The world of waters is our home, And merry men are we. There's tempest in yon horned moon, And lightning in yon cloud ; And hark the music, mariners, The wind is piping loud ; The wind is piping loud, my boys, The lightning flashing free — While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.
Pagina 105 - nate, meae vires, mea magna potentia solus, nate, patris summi qui tela Typhoëa temnis, 665 ad te confugio et supplex tua numina posco.
Pagina 23 - We often hear of people who will descend to any servility, submit to any insult, for the sake of getting themselves or their children into what is euphemistically called good society. Did it ever occur to them that there is a select society of all the centuries to which they and theirs can be admitted for the asking, a society, too, which will not involve them in ruinous expense and still more ruinous waste of time and health and faculties...
Pagina 26 - I there before thee, in the country that well thou knowest, Already arrived am inhaling the odorous air: I watch thee enter unerringly where thou goest, And anchor queen of the strange shipping there, Thy sails for awnings spread, thy masts bare : Nor is aught from the foaming reef to the snowcapped, grandest Peak, that is over the feathery palms more fair Than thou, so upright, so stately, and still thou standest.

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