About in the World: Essays by the Author of "The Gentle Life".Sampson Low, son, & Marston, 1864 - 312 стор. |
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... picture of a baby - face hangs above my desk as I write , and I turn to it with quiet affection , and look at the closed eyes and parted lips , whence almost a baby's softly drawn breath comes and goes . Babies render us tender and more ...
... picture of a baby - face hangs above my desk as I write , and I turn to it with quiet affection , and look at the closed eyes and parted lips , whence almost a baby's softly drawn breath comes and goes . Babies render us tender and more ...
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... picture is not always flattering , but that it is drawn with a masterly as well as a friendly hand . Cromwell sitting to his portrait - painter Cooper , the miniature Vandyke , said sternly , " No flattery ! paint me with my warts ...
... picture is not always flattering , but that it is drawn with a masterly as well as a friendly hand . Cromwell sitting to his portrait - painter Cooper , the miniature Vandyke , said sternly , " No flattery ! paint me with my warts ...
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... picture , and put a high light or a dark shadow where wanted . John Bull , we perceive , then , is not of pure blood . He brags a bit about it , and talks of high descent ; but his blood , if compared to that of the Jews , Hindoos ...
... picture , and put a high light or a dark shadow where wanted . John Bull , we perceive , then , is not of pure blood . He brags a bit about it , and talks of high descent ; but his blood , if compared to that of the Jews , Hindoos ...
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... picture , we may still say that as the men are affectionate and true - hearted , so the women inspire and refine them . Nothing is better in the whole world than the courtship and carriage of the sexes : the wife of every Englishman is ...
... picture , we may still say that as the men are affectionate and true - hearted , so the women inspire and refine them . Nothing is better in the whole world than the courtship and carriage of the sexes : the wife of every Englishman is ...
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... picture with nature before he blames us , and so , in the words of their own ancient war - cry , " Fag an bealach , ” Clear the road ! The origin of the Irishman is obscured , as he is proud to say , in the mist of antiquity ; a mist of ...
... picture with nature before he blames us , and so , in the words of their own ancient war - cry , " Fag an bealach , ” Clear the road ! The origin of the Irishman is obscured , as he is proud to say , in the mist of antiquity ; a mist of ...
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About in the World: Essays by the Author of "The Gentle Life". James Hain Friswell Повний перегляд - 1864 |
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Сторінка 95 - Happy the man, who sees a God employed In all the good and ill, that chequer life! Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme.
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Сторінка 3 - Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...
Сторінка 208 - Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie; Peace in her vineyard— yes!
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