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... eyes - for forehead , to the best of my memory , he had none : a little round nose was buried between two red mountains of cheeks , and his mouth , when patulous , presented to view a little round hole , into which the wedding ring of ...
... eyes - for forehead , to the best of my memory , he had none : a little round nose was buried between two red mountains of cheeks , and his mouth , when patulous , presented to view a little round hole , into which the wedding ring of ...
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... eyes ; she would have noted their dark fashes , -the wit , the innocent roguery they con- veyed ; she would have noted too , that , with all their merriment , they would be first to beam with sympathy at sight of distress , or to cloud ...
... eyes ; she would have noted their dark fashes , -the wit , the innocent roguery they con- veyed ; she would have noted too , that , with all their merriment , they would be first to beam with sympathy at sight of distress , or to cloud ...
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... eye - glass seems glued before his glassy eye , whose fire was long since " raked " out , he regards , with great self - satisfaction , the ladies he may chance to meet . Here , —a truce to observation , -here is Bob Pike himself ! -his ...
... eye - glass seems glued before his glassy eye , whose fire was long since " raked " out , he regards , with great self - satisfaction , the ladies he may chance to meet . Here , —a truce to observation , -here is Bob Pike himself ! -his ...
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parts , is required to free this unfortunate race ; so distinguished in the eyes of men would be their redeemer ! It would not even be a sacri- fice . To do so would be no proof of devotion to their cause ; it would only be the ...
parts , is required to free this unfortunate race ; so distinguished in the eyes of men would be their redeemer ! It would not even be a sacri- fice . To do so would be no proof of devotion to their cause ; it would only be the ...
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... eyes , is , that she is less a constitutional than a democratic monarchy ; that , being situated in the centre of Europe , her capital seems the rendezvous of the highest intellects ; her language is spread over the Continent ; her ...
... eyes , is , that she is less a constitutional than a democratic monarchy ; that , being situated in the centre of Europe , her capital seems the rendezvous of the highest intellects ; her language is spread over the Continent ; her ...
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Abd-ul-Hamid ALCIBIADES ANYTUS appear ARISTOPHANES Aspasia Athens Austria beautiful Bob Pike Briton called character child Christian Church credal infidel cried CRITIAS CRITO dare dear death delight divine drama earth effect EURIPIDES eyes father favour fear feel genius give glory hand happy Harran hast heart heaven HIEROPHANT honour hope human Hungerford Market interest Italians Italy Janet jolly boys labour LADY ANNE LADY BLANCHE light live look Lord LYCON Madelon marriage means mind moral mother mystery nature never noble once passion Pericles Plato play poet poetry political poor present principles prison reader religion replied scene Shallum Shelomith Sloggs Snibs society SOCRATES SOPHOCLES soul speak spirit sweet Tabitha tears tell thee thing thou thought tion tragedy true truth virtue West Ashby wish words XENOPHON young
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Page 476 - 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 488 - 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 206 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Page 200 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 161 - For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Page 480 - There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together ; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Page 487 - What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil.
Page 170 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Page 206 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be it so, since He Who now is...
Page 489 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.