The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 стор. |
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... drink vile beer and talk of beeves and corn ; the village shop , where the old women talk scandal of their neigh- bours ; the county paper , with its rigmarole paragraphs about the most trivial events ; are the chief sources of rustic ...
... drink vile beer and talk of beeves and corn ; the village shop , where the old women talk scandal of their neigh- bours ; the county paper , with its rigmarole paragraphs about the most trivial events ; are the chief sources of rustic ...
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... able to pay proper rent for suitable dwellings , and to eat strong meat and drink ale or wine , and to live lives suitable to their vocations . The Skimpoles and Micawbers may go to the pauper villages which an 34 The Secret of Long Life .
... able to pay proper rent for suitable dwellings , and to eat strong meat and drink ale or wine , and to live lives suitable to their vocations . The Skimpoles and Micawbers may go to the pauper villages which an 34 The Secret of Long Life .
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... drink a bottle of sound claret . You cannot , indeed , live in a country district without having such neighbours ... drinking - without which it is not particularly easy to live . The Times ( April 14 , 1871 ) , remarks that I talk a ...
... drink a bottle of sound claret . You cannot , indeed , live in a country district without having such neighbours ... drinking - without which it is not particularly easy to live . The Times ( April 14 , 1871 ) , remarks that I talk a ...
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... drink . He has divined my mode of work . I am now writing on a bird - haunted lawn , with a joyous wind tossing my lime - trees above me , and three dogs sleepily watching my proceedings , and wish- ing I would knock off work and take ...
... drink . He has divined my mode of work . I am now writing on a bird - haunted lawn , with a joyous wind tossing my lime - trees above me , and three dogs sleepily watching my proceedings , and wish- ing I would knock off work and take ...
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... ago , and if likewise they grow to a finer size , I take it that what they eat and drink has something to do with it . So I must ask my courteous critics to forgive me for occasionally referring to a topic of such moment . I Politics . 63.
... ago , and if likewise they grow to a finer size , I take it that what they eat and drink has something to do with it . So I must ask my courteous critics to forgive me for occasionally referring to a topic of such moment . I Politics . 63.
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Сторінка 32 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Сторінка 94 - And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day — Ah ! do not we, wanderer ! await it too ? Yes, we await it! — but it still delays, And then we suffer! and amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne; And all his store of sad experience he Lays bare of wretched days...
Сторінка 59 - The time is out of joint : — 0 cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!
Сторінка 94 - Tells us his misery's birth and growth and signs, And how the dying spark of hope was fed, And how the breast was soothed, and how the head, And all his hourly varied anodynes.