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... u - u - te ! " bawled Tabitha . " You pickling tub ! " piped Dorothy . The beauty of the last - mentioned allusion is certainly hidden , but ladies incensed are not nice in the choice of terms 48 Autobiography of Fitzroy Pike .
... u - u - te ! " bawled Tabitha . " You pickling tub ! " piped Dorothy . The beauty of the last - mentioned allusion is certainly hidden , but ladies incensed are not nice in the choice of terms 48 Autobiography of Fitzroy Pike .
Page 72
... Beauty . Long floats its curls , and its ripe lips are giving The choice expression of high love and duty ; Song smileth from its eye , and Mainzer by me Is giving life , and that is more than living , For the sad Death of Life is in ...
... Beauty . Long floats its curls , and its ripe lips are giving The choice expression of high love and duty ; Song smileth from its eye , and Mainzer by me Is giving life , and that is more than living , For the sad Death of Life is in ...
Page 79
... quote the following poem , not only for its intrinsic beauty and nervous phraseology , but because it records the author's detestation of such wickedly reckless councils : — " A CALL TO THE PEople . " Awake ! The Poetry of J. C. Prince .
... quote the following poem , not only for its intrinsic beauty and nervous phraseology , but because it records the author's detestation of such wickedly reckless councils : — " A CALL TO THE PEople . " Awake ! The Poetry of J. C. Prince .
Page 88
... beauty round the confiding heart , wreathing it with the gay flowers of promised happiness - never , never to fade , or decay , ) through his vices ; -deep , inexpressible , enduring sorrow , was the most predominant . " Oh ! if my sins ...
... beauty round the confiding heart , wreathing it with the gay flowers of promised happiness - never , never to fade , or decay , ) through his vices ; -deep , inexpressible , enduring sorrow , was the most predominant . " Oh ! if my sins ...
Page 99
... beauty is victorious , and secures you the triumph , But you must in turn be conquered by love . " your charms : There is a merry sonnet , " In Poetæ et Puelle Nuptias , " which we will translate merrily . It may amuse Thomas Moore ...
... beauty is victorious , and secures you the triumph , But you must in turn be conquered by love . " your charms : There is a merry sonnet , " In Poetæ et Puelle Nuptias , " which we will translate merrily . It may amuse Thomas Moore ...
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Page 474 - 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 486 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 117 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 198 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 485 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 202 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 487 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Page 203 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Page 202 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 168 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.