Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta, Curious, Humorous, and Instructive |
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... Fool and poet , 348 . Fools , abundance of , 357 . Freind , to Dr. Robert , 348 . Friend , to a capricious , 351 . Friend in distress , 354 . German tourist , suggested by a , 350 . Giving and taking , 351 . Hog vs. Bacon , 354 . Hot ...
... Fool and poet , 348 . Fools , abundance of , 357 . Freind , to Dr. Robert , 348 . Friend , to a capricious , 351 . Friend in distress , 354 . German tourist , suggested by a , 350 . Giving and taking , 351 . Hog vs. Bacon , 354 . Hot ...
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... Fools ' day , 196 . American flag , 219 . Bottled ale , 207 . Brother Jonathan , 220 . Bumper , 204 . Cards , 200 . Dollar - mark , 221 . Dun , 204 . Earliest newspapers , 228 . First printing by steam , 229 . telegraphic message , 229 ...
... Fools ' day , 196 . American flag , 219 . Bottled ale , 207 . Brother Jonathan , 220 . Bumper , 204 . Cards , 200 . Dollar - mark , 221 . Dun , 204 . Earliest newspapers , 228 . First printing by steam , 229 . telegraphic message , 229 ...
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... fools . G. - Grace , goodness , gumption , and a little goose - grease , enable a man to slip through the world mighty easy . Get them and glory in them . H. - Harbor hope in your heart if you would be happy ; but hark ye , hope can't ...
... fools . G. - Grace , goodness , gumption , and a little goose - grease , enable a man to slip through the world mighty easy . Get them and glory in them . H. - Harbor hope in your heart if you would be happy ; but hark ye , hope can't ...
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... fool . " One kiss , dear maid , " I said and sighed , " Out of those lips unshorn . " She shook her ringlets round her head , And laughed in merry scorn . Ring out , wild bells , to the wild sky ! Lowell . Hood . Wordsworth . Eastman ...
... fool . " One kiss , dear maid , " I said and sighed , " Out of those lips unshorn . " She shook her ringlets round her head , And laughed in merry scorn . Ring out , wild bells , to the wild sky ! Lowell . Hood . Wordsworth . Eastman ...
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... fools . - This a good block ? -Act IV . Sc . 6 . The following occurs in the play of King John , where the King is pausing in his wish to incite Hubert to murder Arthur : - Good friend , thou hast no cause to say so yet ; But thou shalt ...
... fools . - This a good block ? -Act IV . Sc . 6 . The following occurs in the play of King John , where the King is pausing in his wish to incite Hubert to murder Arthur : - Good friend , thou hast no cause to say so yet ; But thou shalt ...
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Page 488 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 507 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."* — Church History.
Page 436 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Page 375 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Page 219 - Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 487 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 365 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 336 - More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness...
Page 73 - We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best...
Page 337 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...