The cruet stand, select pieces of prose and poetry, Том 21853 |
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... answers from some of the best pens from that side against it . Not any , however , appeared . So that I read over afresh all that had been urged on the opposite side . But here again , though I went over them with the greatest attention ...
... answers from some of the best pens from that side against it . Not any , however , appeared . So that I read over afresh all that had been urged on the opposite side . But here again , though I went over them with the greatest attention ...
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... answer for it at the last day , I will not presume to determine ; but thus much I may venture to infer from it , that those Boanerges did choose the most unlikely means of recommending Christianity to the unbelieving part of the world ...
... answer for it at the last day , I will not presume to determine ; but thus much I may venture to infer from it , that those Boanerges did choose the most unlikely means of recommending Christianity to the unbelieving part of the world ...
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... answered the lad , " that little ' un there : he is a rare ' un to feight . " 66 As Pat Hogan , an American emigrant , sat enjoying his connu- bial bliss , upon the banks of a southern creek , he espied a turtle , emerging from the ...
... answered the lad , " that little ' un there : he is a rare ' un to feight . " 66 As Pat Hogan , an American emigrant , sat enjoying his connu- bial bliss , upon the banks of a southern creek , he espied a turtle , emerging from the ...
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... capable of understanding the highest subjects - what has been emphatically termed " high art ; " yet let this answer , that we have observed , in VOL . II . D watching the visitors to our National Gallery , how often PROSE AND POETRY . 25.
... capable of understanding the highest subjects - what has been emphatically termed " high art ; " yet let this answer , that we have observed , in VOL . II . D watching the visitors to our National Gallery , how often PROSE AND POETRY . 25.
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... answer a call for some apple pie , owing to the knife slipping on the bottom of the dish , found his knuckles buried in the crust , when a wag , who sat just opposite to him , very gravely observed , whilst he held his plate , " Sir , I ...
... answer a call for some apple pie , owing to the knife slipping on the bottom of the dish , found his knuckles buried in the crust , when a wag , who sat just opposite to him , very gravely observed , whilst he held his plate , " Sir , I ...
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Сторінка 240 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Сторінка 240 - Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not ; for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman...
Сторінка 274 - 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.
Сторінка 238 - 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.
Сторінка 266 - I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
Сторінка 96 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Сторінка 221 - Then holding the spectacles up to the court — Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle As wide as the ridge of the Nose is ; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.
Сторінка 291 - My heart is awed within me, when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on, In silence, round me — the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Forever.
Сторінка 221 - So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning ; While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship...
Сторінка 238 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.