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... least such it was forty years ago , when I knew it a magnificent relic ! What alterations may have been made in it since , I have had no opportunities of verifying . Time , I take for granted , has not freshened it . No wind has ...
... least such it was forty years ago , when I knew it a magnificent relic ! What alterations may have been made in it since , I have had no opportunities of verifying . Time , I take for granted , has not freshened it . No wind has ...
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... least , with the idea of the possibility of his becoming one : his tristful visage clearing up a little over his roast neck of veal at Anderton's at two ( where his picture still hangs , taken a little before his death by desire of the ...
... least , with the idea of the possibility of his becoming one : his tristful visage clearing up a little over his roast neck of veal at Anderton's at two ( where his picture still hangs , taken a little before his death by desire of the ...
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... least so much from other sources , for D. is not a man to complain . D. started like an unbroke heifer , when I interrupted him . A priori it was not very probable that we should have met in Oriel . But D. would have done the same , had ...
... least so much from other sources , for D. is not a man to complain . D. started like an unbroke heifer , when I interrupted him . A priori it was not very probable that we should have met in Oriel . But D. would have done the same , had ...
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... least . And D. has been under - working for himself ever since ; - drudging at low rates for unappreciating booksellers , — wasting his fine erudition in silent corrections of the classics , and in those unostentatious but solid ...
... least . And D. has been under - working for himself ever since ; - drudging at low rates for unappreciating booksellers , — wasting his fine erudition in silent corrections of the classics , and in those unostentatious but solid ...
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... least we understood it ) , but to enforce the uttermost stripe . Old Bamber Gascoigne , and Peter Aubert , I remember , were colleagues on one occasion , when the beadle turning rather pale , a glass of brandy was ordered to prepare him ...
... least we understood it ) , but to enforce the uttermost stripe . Old Bamber Gascoigne , and Peter Aubert , I remember , were colleagues on one occasion , when the beadle turning rather pale , a glass of brandy was ordered to prepare him ...
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Página 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.
Página 97 - But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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!