The cruet stand, select pieces of prose and poetry, Том 21853 |
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... comes from above . By this means we shall be happily preserved from that pride and presumption , which is but too apt to insinuate itself into the minds of new converts ; for experience plainly shews , that those two dangerous vices ...
... comes from above . By this means we shall be happily preserved from that pride and presumption , which is but too apt to insinuate itself into the minds of new converts ; for experience plainly shews , that those two dangerous vices ...
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... Comes wafting gently o'er the rippling Trent , And plays about my wan cheek . ' Tis a nook Most pleasant . Such a one perchance did Gray Frequent , as with a vagrant muse he wanton'd . Come I will sit me down and meditate , For I am ...
... Comes wafting gently o'er the rippling Trent , And plays about my wan cheek . ' Tis a nook Most pleasant . Such a one perchance did Gray Frequent , as with a vagrant muse he wanton'd . Come I will sit me down and meditate , For I am ...
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... the dawning of the day , when the soft light comes stealing on ; at first glimmers with the stars , but gradually outshines them all . How beautiful are the folding and the parting of the grey 22 PROSE AND POETRY . A FLAT FISH. ...
... the dawning of the day , when the soft light comes stealing on ; at first glimmers with the stars , but gradually outshines them all . How beautiful are the folding and the parting of the grey 22 PROSE AND POETRY . A FLAT FISH. ...
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... comes out of the depths of our common nature . Well , then , to be brief , the subject of the picture will be the first , the most direct , and the most universal source of delighted contemplation ; next to this , reckon the pleasure we ...
... comes out of the depths of our common nature . Well , then , to be brief , the subject of the picture will be the first , the most direct , and the most universal source of delighted contemplation ; next to this , reckon the pleasure we ...
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... comes frozen home in pail . A WAG speaking of the embarkation of troops , said— “ Notwith- standing many of them are leaving blooming wives behind , they go away in transports ! " CHILDREN DANCING . I DARE say my reader has observed ...
... comes frozen home in pail . A WAG speaking of the embarkation of troops , said— “ Notwith- standing many of them are leaving blooming wives behind , they go away in transports ! " CHILDREN DANCING . I DARE say my reader has observed ...
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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.