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Pagina 36
... tell you just where he found it . ' He told us very frankly , still smiling from ear to ear . He had observed in a solitary ilex - tree , of great age , the traces of a recent lightning - stroke . ( A week of un- seasonably sultry ...
... tell you just where he found it . ' He told us very frankly , still smiling from ear to ear . He had observed in a solitary ilex - tree , of great age , the traces of a recent lightning - stroke . ( A week of un- seasonably sultry ...
Pagina 37
... tell you , once for all , that I'm not ashamed of having got my prize cheap . It was ten scudi or nothing ! If I had offered a farthing more I should have opened those sleepy eyes of his . It was a case to pocket one's scruples and act ...
... tell you , once for all , that I'm not ashamed of having got my prize cheap . It was ten scudi or nothing ! If I had offered a farthing more I should have opened those sleepy eyes of his . It was a case to pocket one's scruples and act ...
Pagina 39
... tell you now . Content yourself for the present with admiring it . " Admire it I did for a long time . Cer- tainly , if Scrope's hypothesis was not sound , it ought to have been , and if the Emperor Tiberius had never worn the topaz in ...
... tell you now . Content yourself for the present with admiring it . " Admire it I did for a long time . Cer- tainly , if Scrope's hypothesis was not sound , it ought to have been , and if the Emperor Tiberius had never worn the topaz in ...
Pagina 57
... tell her so . She was still sore and hurt , and by no means in- clined to forgive him ; but she was faint also , and feverish with thirst , so she drank the tea thankfully , and ate the thin slices of toast which Clary's delighted hands ...
... tell her so . She was still sore and hurt , and by no means in- clined to forgive him ; but she was faint also , and feverish with thirst , so she drank the tea thankfully , and ate the thin slices of toast which Clary's delighted hands ...
Pagina 59
... telling their exploits and advent- ures of the morning , and at which more than half of them appeared in their hats ... tell the story . But they could not take it away from her , she thought with a great rush of gladness , pressing her ...
... telling their exploits and advent- ures of the morning , and at which more than half of them appeared in their hats ... tell the story . But they could not take it away from her , she thought with a great rush of gladness , pressing her ...
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Pagina 298 - To the Reader THIS Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but have drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face; the Print would then surpasse All, that was ever writ in brasse. But, since he cannot, Reader, looke Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
Pagina 360 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Pagina 435 - Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Pagina 590 - Just when I seemed about to learn! Where is the thread now? Off again! The old trick! Only I discern — Infinite passion and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
Pagina 457 - O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Pagina 317 - Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Pagina 300 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Pagina 590 - I would I could adopt your will, See with your eyes, and set my heart Beating by yours, and drink my fill At your soul's springs, - your part my part In life, for good and ill.
Pagina 596 - I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that 'words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
Pagina 148 - Lo ! I forgive thee, as Eternal God Forgives : do thou for thine own soul the rest.