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Pagina 6
... person to read his own works over with any great delight , he ought first to forget that he ever wrote them . Familiarity naturally breeds contempt . It is , in fact , like poring fondly over a piece of blank paper : from repetition ...
... person to read his own works over with any great delight , he ought first to forget that he ever wrote them . Familiarity naturally breeds contempt . It is , in fact , like poring fondly over a piece of blank paper : from repetition ...
Pagina 25
... person said , " they should not , for that then by this time it would have been all over with them . ' As if it could possibly signify when we live ( save and excepting the present minute ) , or as if the value of human life decreased ...
... person said , " they should not , for that then by this time it would have been all over with them . ' As if it could possibly signify when we live ( save and excepting the present minute ) , or as if the value of human life decreased ...
Pagina 27
... person . Criminals are observed to grow more anxious as their trial approaches ; but after their sentence is passed ... persons who affect to think it of no value at all . Que peu de chose est la vie humaine — is an exclamation in the ...
... person . Criminals are observed to grow more anxious as their trial approaches ; but after their sentence is passed ... persons who affect to think it of no value at all . Que peu de chose est la vie humaine — is an exclamation in the ...
Pagina 34
... persons who had rendered themselves obnoxious to Government , and been included in a charge for high treason in the ... person ; -in this brief moment , in this dim , illegible short- hand of the mind he had just escaped the speeches of ...
... persons who had rendered themselves obnoxious to Government , and been included in a charge for high treason in the ... person ; -in this brief moment , in this dim , illegible short- hand of the mind he had just escaped the speeches of ...
Pagina 40
... person remark of another -'He has an eye like a vicious horse . ' This was a fair analogy . We all , I believe , have noticed the look of a horse's eye , just before he is going to bite or kick . But will any one , therefore , describe ...
... person remark of another -'He has an eye like a vicious horse . ' This was a fair analogy . We all , I believe , have noticed the look of a horse's eye , just before he is going to bite or kick . But will any one , therefore , describe ...
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Pagina 99 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them ; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, Had I not filed (') my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Pagina 41 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Pagina 125 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Pagina 181 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Pagina 31 - So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself...
Pagina 177 - Saturn laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell: Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor...
Pagina 194 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole City to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone...
Pagina 367 - Vice thus abused, demands a nation's care ; This calls the Church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gin. Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten Metropolitans in preaching well...
Pagina 297 - Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
Pagina 393 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i