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... politics of the day hateful to his tenets and opinions , but if anything savoured of philosophical dis- quisition , he declared that such matters were fit only for the schools , and were unbecom- ing 20 THE DEVOTED .
... politics of the day hateful to his tenets and opinions , but if anything savoured of philosophical dis- quisition , he declared that such matters were fit only for the schools , and were unbecom- ing 20 THE DEVOTED .
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... matter - it is beneath my notice , and of no real consequence . " " Quite so , my dear papa : let us dismiss the subject from our thoughts . " But this was easier said than done . Those who have lived the greater part of their lives in ...
... matter - it is beneath my notice , and of no real consequence . " " Quite so , my dear papa : let us dismiss the subject from our thoughts . " But this was easier said than done . Those who have lived the greater part of their lives in ...
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... matter ; when his usual courtesy prevailed , and , pressing his hand on his heart , declared he should institute an order , and call it " The Merry - thought . " So saying , having carefully wiped it , he placed it in his button - hole ...
... matter ; when his usual courtesy prevailed , and , pressing his hand on his heart , declared he should institute an order , and call it " The Merry - thought . " So saying , having carefully wiped it , he placed it in his button - hole ...
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... matters to a conclusion if I had only one halfpenny for every line I have written in Lord Alta- mont's behalf , that is to say , mediately or im- mediately for his lordship or at his bidding- I assure you , my good friend , I should ...
... matters to a conclusion if I had only one halfpenny for every line I have written in Lord Alta- mont's behalf , that is to say , mediately or im- mediately for his lordship or at his bidding- I assure you , my good friend , I should ...
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... matter indeed . Somehow the seal got entangled with my spectacle - case , and was damaged in my breeches pocket ; so that , nolens volens , so to speak , I had a glimpse into the tenor of the contents . A turn - down was filled with ...
... matter indeed . Somehow the seal got entangled with my spectacle - case , and was damaged in my breeches pocket ; so that , nolens volens , so to speak , I had a glimpse into the tenor of the contents . A turn - down was filled with ...
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Сторінка 174 - But these are all lies : men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Сторінка 192 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Сторінка 192 - I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I '11 so offend to make offence a skill ; Redeeming time when men think least I will.
Сторінка 319 - Tis done ! dread Winter spreads his latest glooms, And reigns tremendous o'er the conquer'd year. How dead the vegetable kingdom lies ! How dumb the tuneful! Horror wide extends His desolate domain. Behold, fond man ! See here thy pictured life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength, Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.
Сторінка 55 - But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane ; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being...
Сторінка 224 - early to bed and early to rise, is the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Сторінка 156 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Сторінка 132 - This makes the madmen who have made men mad By their contagion; Conquerors and Kings, Founders of sects and systems, to whom add Sophists, Bards, Statesmen, all unquiet things Which stir too strongly the soul's secret springs, And are themselves the fools to those they fool; Envied, yet how unenviable!
Сторінка 294 - Above, below, aerial murmurs swell, From hanging wood, brown heath, and bushy dell ! A thousand nameless rills, that shun the light, Stealing soft music on the ear of night.
Сторінка 56 - With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook : Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow-dragging some, With various hand proportion'd to their force.