Autumn Hours and Fireside ReadingCharles Scribner, 1854 - 311 sider |
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... thing , with all its particulars , its episodes , its contretems , its raptures , separately , again and again , to each of your friends- it would take the forty mouths of a Hindoo idol . Some attempt this , indeed , but their friends ...
... thing , with all its particulars , its episodes , its contretems , its raptures , separately , again and again , to each of your friends- it would take the forty mouths of a Hindoo idol . Some attempt this , indeed , but their friends ...
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... thing we are doing for our friend . How many conversations has ' the last number of Bleak House ' opened ! How naturally we test and measure the congeniality or the ability of our acquaintance , by ascertaining their opinion of ...
... thing we are doing for our friend . How many conversations has ' the last number of Bleak House ' opened ! How naturally we test and measure the congeniality or the ability of our acquaintance , by ascertaining their opinion of ...
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... want different books , and to prescribe long goody essays to young people is useless , let our tyros be ever so docile . They can't read such things , or , if they can , it is a bad sign , and INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 17.
... want different books , and to prescribe long goody essays to young people is useless , let our tyros be ever so docile . They can't read such things , or , if they can , it is a bad sign , and INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 17.
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... thing is certain , that those who have most thoroughly and rationally practised it are best prepared to defend it . The question as to how and where the summer is to be spent , is quite another one . To some , the plain farm - house ...
... thing is certain , that those who have most thoroughly and rationally practised it are best prepared to defend it . The question as to how and where the summer is to be spent , is quite another one . To some , the plain farm - house ...
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... things , and all our pleasant little delusions fly away , and leave what may not look so pretty at first , but is , after all , much more wholesome and more dignified . To be obliged to content ourselves with our real claims is a great ...
... things , and all our pleasant little delusions fly away , and leave what may not look so pretty at first , but is , after all , much more wholesome and more dignified . To be obliged to content ourselves with our real claims is a great ...
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Side 142 - No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust ; And oft, when in my heart was heard...
Side 142 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad hearts ! without reproach or blot ; Who do thy work and know it not ; Oh ! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power ! around them cast.
Side 206 - The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness...
Side 77 - 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.
Side 265 - Subtle as Sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Side 222 - ... encumbered with claims — and took up her own abode on the new plantation. Living in an humble dwelling — and relinquishing many of her habitual comforts — -she devoted herself with such zeal, untiring industry, and indomitable resolution to the attainment of her object, that her success triumphed over every difficulty, and exceeded the expectations of all who had discouraged her. She not only paid her husband's debts to the full, but secured for her children and descendants a handsome and...
Side 220 - how came you here ?' "'Oh, I thought, 'replied I, 'you would need nurses as well as soldiers.
Side 117 - Impostor, do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance...
Side 63 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover...
Side 143 - Why, assure you, signior, rich apparel has strange virtues : it makes him that hath it without means, esteemed for an excellent wit : he that enjoys it with means, puts the world in remembrance of his means : it helps the deformities of nature, and gives lustre to her beauties ; makes continual holiday where it shines...