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... friendly shield had shadowed him , the friendly life had been risked to save him . This had roused his better nature , this had excited his old love . Memories of the past had come rushing upon him like 6 The Gentleman's Magazine .
... friendly shield had shadowed him , the friendly life had been risked to save him . This had roused his better nature , this had excited his old love . Memories of the past had come rushing upon him like 6 The Gentleman's Magazine .
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... better subject , sir , " said Miss Oswald , sitting as calm as a statue , moving hardly a muscle of her face , as if she were talking to herself . My father bowed a gracious and dignified assent , and the Dean fidgetted with the tassel ...
... better subject , sir , " said Miss Oswald , sitting as calm as a statue , moving hardly a muscle of her face , as if she were talking to herself . My father bowed a gracious and dignified assent , and the Dean fidgetted with the tassel ...
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... better , nor more true . Here be grapes , whose lusty blood Is the learned poets ' good ; Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus : nuts more brown Than the squirrel's teeth that crack them ; Deign , O fairest fair , to take ...
... better , nor more true . Here be grapes , whose lusty blood Is the learned poets ' good ; Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus : nuts more brown Than the squirrel's teeth that crack them ; Deign , O fairest fair , to take ...
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... better feelings ( if he had them ) while he prepared and developed his plan for the gaining possession of and then subduing such a wife . Fletcher was a man of good society from his birth ; his gentlemen therefore are all " of the right ...
... better feelings ( if he had them ) while he prepared and developed his plan for the gaining possession of and then subduing such a wife . Fletcher was a man of good society from his birth ; his gentlemen therefore are all " of the right ...
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... better men as often as we revert to and reflect upon them , will return from their travail with Beaumont and Fletcher lightly laden . We cannot say of them as of Shakespeare ( with whom , nevertheless , they have been irritatingly ...
... better men as often as we revert to and reflect upon them , will return from their travail with Beaumont and Fletcher lightly laden . We cannot say of them as of Shakespeare ( with whom , nevertheless , they have been irritatingly ...
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Page 526 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Page 486 - O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Page 692 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 691 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he...
Page 162 - For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed; thou wert our conscript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battles wert so marred.
Page 685 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking. Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 800 - A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind, that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur'd Arthur, " Place me in the barge,
Page 456 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 328 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 284 - OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea ; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dear old town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of a Lapland song Is haunting my memory still : " A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.