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Σελίδα 7
... hand that commended their interests to his protection . With all this there was about him a sort of timidity ( his few enemies used to give it a worse name ) —a something which , in re- verence to the dead , we will place , if you ...
... hand that commended their interests to his protection . With all this there was about him a sort of timidity ( his few enemies used to give it a worse name ) —a something which , in re- verence to the dead , we will place , if you ...
Σελίδα 17
... hand ; and he had the privilege of going to see them , almost as often as he wished , through some invidious distinc- tion , which was denied to us . The present worthy sub- treasurer to the Inner Temple can explain how that hap- pened ...
... hand ; and he had the privilege of going to see them , almost as often as he wished , through some invidious distinc- tion , which was denied to us . The present worthy sub- treasurer to the Inner Temple can explain how that hap- pened ...
Σελίδα 26
... hand . I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child ( the maternal milk hardly dry upon its lips ) with a Sirrah , do you presume to set your wits at me ? " - Nothing was more common than to see him make a headlong ...
... hand . I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child ( the maternal milk hardly dry upon its lips ) with a Sirrah , do you presume to set your wits at me ? " - Nothing was more common than to see him make a headlong ...
Σελίδα 27
... hand - when droll squinting W --- having been caught putting the inside of the master's desk to a use for which the architect had clearly not designed it , to justify himself , with great simplicity averred , that he did not know that ...
... hand - when droll squinting W --- having been caught putting the inside of the master's desk to a use for which the architect had clearly not designed it , to justify himself , with great simplicity averred , that he did not know that ...
Σελίδα 31
... hand- somely at each man's hand . In vain the victim , whom he delighteth to honour , struggles with destiny ; he is in the Lend therefore cheerfully , O man ordained to lend- that thou lose not in the end , with thy worldly penny , the ...
... hand- somely at each man's hand . In vain the victim , whom he delighteth to honour , struggles with destiny ; he is in the Lend therefore cheerfully , O man ordained to lend- that thou lose not in the end , with thy worldly penny , the ...
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Σελίδα 330 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Σελίδα 97 - But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation...
Σελίδα 285 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Σελίδα 268 - Townsfolk my strength ; a daintier judge applies His praise to sleight, which from good use doth rise ; Some lucky wits impute it but to chance ; Others, because of both sides I do take My blood from them, who did excel in this, Think Nature me a man of arms did make. How far they shot awry ! the true cause is, STELLA looked on, and from her heavenly face Sent forth the beams which made so fair my race.
Σελίδα 101 - Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide: There like a bird it sits, and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings; And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Σελίδα 154 - It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness : for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Σελίδα 119 - ... came to decay, and was nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments stripped and carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawingroom. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " that would be foolish indeed.
Σελίδα 266 - Then, even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me, Is constant love deem'd there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call 'virtue' there — ungratefulness? 94. Sleep /^OME, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace, ^** The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th...
Σελίδα 174 - No purity of the marriage bed is stained — for none is supposed to have a being. No deep affections are disquieted, no holy wedlock bands are snapped asunder — for affection's depth and wedded faith are not of the growth of that soil. There is neither right nor wrong, — gratitude or its opposite, — claim or duty, — paternity or sonship.
Σελίδα 99 - Indeed, it is the most elegant spot in the metropolis. What a transition for a countryman visiting London for the first time the passing from the crowded Strand or Fleet-street, by unexpected avenues, into its magnificent ample squares, its classic green recesses!