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Side 15
... better than a heathen . How- ever , you never would do it - particular- ly after having read this essay . I assure you that when you may have eaten up all the chickens which were stowed away in your saddle - bags , you cannot do better ...
... better than a heathen . How- ever , you never would do it - particular- ly after having read this essay . I assure you that when you may have eaten up all the chickens which were stowed away in your saddle - bags , you cannot do better ...
Side 16
... better answer the purpose if a tailor look at him — if a cobbler be induced to buy one of his tickets - if a butcher or an innkeeper , or any person who may think it cheaper to purchase his meat by lottery than to go to market for it ...
... better answer the purpose if a tailor look at him — if a cobbler be induced to buy one of his tickets - if a butcher or an innkeeper , or any person who may think it cheaper to purchase his meat by lottery than to go to market for it ...
Side 28
... Better make a note of them in time , " said a voice that suggested an excess of free acid . I looked at the lemon- colored portal from which this ill - natured warning came , and remembered the face ; it was one I had formerly admired ...
... Better make a note of them in time , " said a voice that suggested an excess of free acid . I looked at the lemon- colored portal from which this ill - natured warning came , and remembered the face ; it was one I had formerly admired ...
Side 35
... better genius only , to change thee for the nouce into the epitome of thy former self . Having by this procedure ' dwindled by degrees and grown beautifully less , ' de- vote to thy business all that is left of thee , viz . - an ...
... better genius only , to change thee for the nouce into the epitome of thy former self . Having by this procedure ' dwindled by degrees and grown beautifully less , ' de- vote to thy business all that is left of thee , viz . - an ...
Side 51
... better story at this moment than any man in the United States . I have a tale in my desk this present hour - a tale of his I beg you to understand - entitled The Phantom Telescope , which I will back for originality and power , against ...
... better story at this moment than any man in the United States . I have a tale in my desk this present hour - a tale of his I beg you to understand - entitled The Phantom Telescope , which I will back for originality and power , against ...
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Side 319 - Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity ; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels
Side 384 - Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear.
Side 446 - I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.
Side 306 - Water is good to drink, coal to burn, wool to wear ; but wool cannot be drunk, nor water spun, nor coal eaten. The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradation, and his scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature.
Side 81 - Judenstrass, in mirk and mire ; Taught in the school of patience to endure. The life of anguish and the death of fire. All their lives long, with the unleavened bread And bitter herbs of exile and its fears, The wasting famine of the heart they fed, And slaked its thirst with marah of their tears.
Side 25 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But O, sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek.
Side 381 - And sometime make the drink to bear no barm ; Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm ? Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck, You do their work, and they shall have good luck : Are not you he ? Puck.
Side 448 - I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Side 506 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Side 447 - I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in disgust.