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Pagina 19
... possession of affluence came too late to afford polish - while it gave sudden scope to a host of ill - regulated desires and incompatible wishes . My young friends at Thornley are like children in a well - furnished toy - shop ; they ...
... possession of affluence came too late to afford polish - while it gave sudden scope to a host of ill - regulated desires and incompatible wishes . My young friends at Thornley are like children in a well - furnished toy - shop ; they ...
Pagina 21
... possession of all the adjacent level . I turned hastily from this meanest aspect of desolation , and ran up the broken staircases , de- lighted to recognize , in the old bowling- green above , one curious flower - bed , forming a true ...
... possession of all the adjacent level . I turned hastily from this meanest aspect of desolation , and ran up the broken staircases , de- lighted to recognize , in the old bowling- green above , one curious flower - bed , forming a true ...
Pagina 26
... possessions , will be denied by no one . In respect of the means of acquisition , Greece is as much the right of Turkey , as Bri- tish India , British America , and Ire . land , are the right of Britain . On this point , the right of ...
... possessions , will be denied by no one . In respect of the means of acquisition , Greece is as much the right of Turkey , as Bri- tish India , British America , and Ire . land , are the right of Britain . On this point , the right of ...
Pagina 29
... possession of their property , on giving an indemnity . A treaty like this - a treaty distin- guished as much by absurdity as by depravity - could never have been drawn in any civilized and educated country ; it is evidently the composi ...
... possession of their property , on giving an indemnity . A treaty like this - a treaty distin- guished as much by absurdity as by depravity - could never have been drawn in any civilized and educated country ; it is evidently the composi ...
Pagina 32
... possessions and her existence , she must be neither a neutral , nor the ally of the piratical powers . This country , with a sinking revenue , with taxes which her destructive policy has rendered almost insupportable , with nearly all ...
... possessions and her existence , she must be neither a neutral , nor the ally of the piratical powers . This country , with a sinking revenue , with taxes which her destructive policy has rendered almost insupportable , with nearly all ...
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Pagina 178 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Pagina 37 - No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
Pagina 178 - Would he were fatter ; but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men : he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music...
Pagina 578 - For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Pagina 364 - The man who proceeds in it with steadiness and resolution, -will in a little time find that ' her ways are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are peace.
Pagina 5 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Pagina 344 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Pagina 375 - Our manner of life was this. Lord Byron, who used to sit up at night, writing Don Juan (which he did under the influence of gin and water), rose late in the morning. He breakfasted ; read ; lounged about, singing an air, generally out of Rossini, and in a swaggering style, though in a voice at once small and veiled...
Pagina 397 - ... ask, To see how this cockney-bred setter of rabbits Takes gravely the lord of the forest to task, And judges of lions by puppy-dog habits. ' Nay, fed as he was (and this makes it a dark case) With sops every day from the lion's own pan, He lifts up his leg at the noble beast's carcass, And — does all a dog, so diminutive, can.
Pagina 396 - Lives" are the rage) The whole Reminiscences, wond'rous and strange, Of a small puppy-dog, that liv'd once in the cage Of the late noble Lion at Exeter 'Change. Though the dog is a dog of the kind they call