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Acid Allison angles Boak Bursaries Campbell Candidates for Honours chemical Chemistry city of Halifax Classics clause Constitutional contract course Curtis Stewart Dalhousie College Degree DEMILL Describe English Language English Literature equation Exhibitions and Bursaries Explain Faculty of Arts Faculty of Law Fourth Fraser French Gallic War Gammell George Munro German Give Governors Graduated with Second Greek Halifax Medical College James John Latin lectures Literature and History Mackay Mackenzie Margaret F Mathematics Matriculation Examination McDonald McLennan McLeod Molière Murray Nova Scotia Parse pass Physics Pictou Pictou Academy principal PRIZE Professor Prove quam Second Class Second Rank Honours Sedgewick sentences Sessional Examinations Shaw Shew Spherical Trigonometry statute of frauds Stewart Supplementary Examination Third Thompson THREE HOURS Translate Trigonometry Truro Undergraduates University Upper Stewiacke verbs Write ἂν δὲ δὴ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε τὴν τὸ τοῦ τῶν ὡς
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Page lxiii - Ha, ha ! keep time : — how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept ! So is it in the music of men's lives.
Page cx - They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page cvii - That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth, wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin, By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure...
Page lx - Tis said, and I believe the tale, Thy humblest reed could more prevail Had more of strength, diviner rage, Than all which charms this laggard age...
Page xxiv - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page cvii - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Page cviii - Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page x - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to the soul : and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray I Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.
Page cix - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity ; Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts : a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man...
Page lx - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.