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Pagina 75
... head swam ; I felt as if Death had laid his hand upon my heart ; and I had just breath enough to whisper to my attendant- " Nurse , I am dying ! all is over ! I feel suffo- cated . Take off some of the bed - clothes . " These were the ...
... head swam ; I felt as if Death had laid his hand upon my heart ; and I had just breath enough to whisper to my attendant- " Nurse , I am dying ! all is over ! I feel suffo- cated . Take off some of the bed - clothes . " These were the ...
Pagina 79
... head was elevated for a few seconds , and I was so much pressed for time . Two of his men caught through the window a clear view - my last subsequently tumbled and turned me over , without view , as I then believed - of the world ...
... head was elevated for a few seconds , and I was so much pressed for time . Two of his men caught through the window a clear view - my last subsequently tumbled and turned me over , without view , as I then believed - of the world ...
Pagina 82
... head glistened , and his sharp eyes twinkled in the light , as he counted in the palm of his shrivelled hand , the ten shillings with which he had doubtless been bribed for giv- ing admission to the vault . His accomplice , in spite of ...
... head glistened , and his sharp eyes twinkled in the light , as he counted in the palm of his shrivelled hand , the ten shillings with which he had doubtless been bribed for giv- ing admission to the vault . His accomplice , in spite of ...
Pagina 89
... head , And the flamelets flapped and flickered , But the abbot was stark and dead ! Yet still in his pallid fingers He clutched the golden bowl , In which , like a pearl dissolving , Had sunk and dissolved his soul . But not for this ...
... head , And the flamelets flapped and flickered , But the abbot was stark and dead ! Yet still in his pallid fingers He clutched the golden bowl , In which , like a pearl dissolving , Had sunk and dissolved his soul . But not for this ...
Pagina 98
... head , and seemingly charivaris , whither he went with a horn in his much pride of position in his heart . But the ... heads . " chanting the same air and chorus , while thirty All his amusements , however , were not so in- nocent . He ...
... head , and seemingly charivaris , whither he went with a horn in his much pride of position in his heart . But the ... heads . " chanting the same air and chorus , while thirty All his amusements , however , were not so in- nocent . He ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 254 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Pagina 14 - If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin.
Pagina 89 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Pagina 305 - Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHER. To save that client by all expedient means— to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself — is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties...
Pagina 141 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Pagina 258 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
Pagina 146 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her, 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Pagina 27 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Pagina 339 - I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him.
Pagina 138 - Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.