Pribbles and Prabbles: Or, Rambling Reflections on Varied TopicsSkeffington, 1906 - 284 sider |
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... well- known occasion , one feels disposed to think that true distinction is best marked by the absence of decoration ; and I have known a young military officer whose breast blazed with crosses and PRIBBLES AND PRABBLES 55.
... well- known occasion , one feels disposed to think that true distinction is best marked by the absence of decoration ; and I have known a young military officer whose breast blazed with crosses and PRIBBLES AND PRABBLES 55.
Side 56
Or, Rambling Reflections on Varied Topics Patrick Maxwell. a young military officer whose breast blazed with crosses and medals , and who to my knowledge had never really seen war This blot did not escape the falcon glance of Giuseppe ...
Or, Rambling Reflections on Varied Topics Patrick Maxwell. a young military officer whose breast blazed with crosses and medals , and who to my knowledge had never really seen war This blot did not escape the falcon glance of Giuseppe ...
Side 123
... officer ; one officer , in order to represent a particular sound , might possibly employ more letters than another officer might use for the same purpose ; or he might even use different letters for that purpose ; since the entire ...
... officer ; one officer , in order to represent a particular sound , might possibly employ more letters than another officer might use for the same purpose ; or he might even use different letters for that purpose ; since the entire ...
Side 147
... officer or official , similarly born and reared . She leaves this country pure and sweet as a lily . According to the gospel of Rudyard Kipling , on arrival in India she soon becomes little better than a wanton . This , of course ...
... officer or official , similarly born and reared . She leaves this country pure and sweet as a lily . According to the gospel of Rudyard Kipling , on arrival in India she soon becomes little better than a wanton . This , of course ...
Side 206
... officers are so absurdly proud that , on a recent occasion , a proposal to abolish it evoked from them a tornado of ... officer , and of my son - in - law , an Oxford student . I could lay it aside to - morrow . I laugh 206 PRIBBLES AND ...
... officers are so absurdly proud that , on a recent occasion , a proposal to abolish it evoked from them a tornado of ... officer , and of my son - in - law , an Oxford student . I could lay it aside to - morrow . I laugh 206 PRIBBLES AND ...
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Side 78 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder...
Side 72 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Side 78 - Must we but blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three. To make a new Thermopylae!
Side 87 - Aemilium circa ludum faber unus et ungues Exprimet et molles imitabitur aere capillos, Infelix operis summa quia ponere totum Nesciet. Hune ego me, si quid componere curem, Non magis esse velim quam naso vivere pravo, Spectandum nigris oculis nigroque capillo.
Side 38 - Si sol splendescat Maria purificante, Major erit glacies post festum quam fuit ante...
Side 169 - He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice: As if divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd...
Side 190 - The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his Universities, To one he sends a regiment ; — For why ? That learned body wanted loyalty ; To th' other books he gave, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.
Side 103 - Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever — unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.
Side 188 - Twas in heaven pronounced, and 'twas muttered in hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell ; On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confest.
Side 78 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!