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... called them , culled from club - rooms , and orchestras - chorus singers - first and second violoncel- los - double basses - and clarionets- who ate his cold mutton and drank his punch and praised his ear . He sat like Lord Midas among ...
... called them , culled from club - rooms , and orchestras - chorus singers - first and second violoncel- los - double basses - and clarionets- who ate his cold mutton and drank his punch and praised his ear . He sat like Lord Midas among ...
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... called together to even- song , he would never fail to introduce some instructive homily against riches , and the corruption of the heart oc- casioned through the desire of them - ending with " Lord , keep Thy servants , above all ...
... called together to even- song , he would never fail to introduce some instructive homily against riches , and the corruption of the heart oc- casioned through the desire of them - ending with " Lord , keep Thy servants , above all ...
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... called the patron who presented us to the foundation ) lived in a manner under his paternal roof . Any complaint which he had to make was sure of being attended to . This was understood at Christ's , and was an effectual screen to him ...
... called the patron who presented us to the foundation ) lived in a manner under his paternal roof . Any complaint which he had to make was sure of being attended to . This was understood at Christ's , and was an effectual screen to him ...
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Charles Lamb. leads of the ward , as they called our dormitories . This game went on for better than a week , till the foolish beast , not able to fare well but he must cry roast meat - happier than Caligula's minion , could he have kept ...
Charles Lamb. leads of the ward , as they called our dormitories . This game went on for better than a week , till the foolish beast , not able to fare well but he must cry roast meat - happier than Caligula's minion , could he have kept ...
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... called cat - cradles ; or making dry peas to dance upon the end of a tin pipe ; or studying the art military over that laudable game " French and English , ” and a hundred other such devices to pass away the 24 CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.
... called cat - cradles ; or making dry peas to dance upon the end of a tin pipe ; or studying the art military over that laudable game " French and English , ” and a hundred other such devices to pass away the 24 CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.
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Сторінка 330 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Сторінка 97 - But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation...
Сторінка 285 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Сторінка 268 - Townsfolk my strength ; a daintier judge applies His praise to sleight, which from good use doth rise ; Some lucky wits impute it but to chance ; Others, because of both sides I do take My blood from them, who did excel in this, Think Nature me a man of arms did make. How far they shot awry ! the true cause is, STELLA looked on, and from her heavenly face Sent forth the beams which made so fair my race.
Сторінка 101 - Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide: There like a bird it sits, and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings; And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Сторінка 154 - It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness : for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Сторінка 119 - ... came to decay, and was nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments stripped and carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawingroom. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " that would be foolish indeed.
Сторінка 266 - Then, even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me, Is constant love deem'd there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call 'virtue' there — ungratefulness? 94. Sleep /^OME, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace, ^** The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th...
Сторінка 174 - No purity of the marriage bed is stained — for none is supposed to have a being. No deep affections are disquieted, no holy wedlock bands are snapped asunder — for affection's depth and wedded faith are not of the growth of that soil. There is neither right nor wrong, — gratitude or its opposite, — claim or duty, — paternity or sonship.
Сторінка 99 - Indeed, it is the most elegant spot in the metropolis. What a transition for a countryman visiting London for the first time the passing from the crowded Strand or Fleet-street, by unexpected avenues, into its magnificent ample squares, its classic green recesses!