"Substituting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sin it be—is twofold. In the first place I have departed wholly from the metrical arrangements of the originals—substituting therefore a variety of forms in line and stanza that more accord with the modern and American ear. In the second place I have had the hardihood—as in "The Lion and The Gnat"—to modify the elegance of the original with ...
— Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks - From the French of La Fontaine • Jean de La Fontaine
... and exercise of the imaginative faculty that, more than any thing, tends to wean the man of genius from actual life, and, by substituting the sensibilities of the imagination for those of the heart, to render, at last, the medium through which he feels no less unreal than that through which he thinks. Those images of ideal good and beauty that surround him ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. III - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... episcopacy again, it is sufficient to say that its prevalence in Asia Minor at this time, whatever may have been the case elsewhere, can only be denied by rejecting a large amount of direct and indirect evidence on this side of the question, and by substituting in its place a mere hypothesis which rests on no ...
— Essays on "Supernatural Religion" • Joseph B. Lightfoot
... many persons, rich as well as poor, who, viewing the legalised scramble from an entirely impersonal standpoint, are filled with disgust and dismay, and who dream of making an end of it, by substituting what they call collectivism for the individualism which they regard as the source of all our troubles. These persons are known as Socialists. Their ruling idea is that the "State" should become the sole owner of property, and that this radical change should be effected by a series ...
— What Is and What Might Be - A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular • Edmond Holmes
... substituting a just medium for a false one it is putting nature within and nature without in tune with each other, so that the chords are perfect now which were ...
— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell
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