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... human misery ! How gladly would I lead them from scenes of blood and alter- cation , to prospects of innocence and ease , where every breeze breathes health , and every sound is but the echo of tranquillity . But whatever the merit of ...
... human misery ! How gladly would I lead them from scenes of blood and alter- cation , to prospects of innocence and ease , where every breeze breathes health , and every sound is but the echo of tranquillity . But whatever the merit of ...
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... human visage . Ladies grew toasts from the size of their chins , and none were regarded as pretty fellows , but such whose faces were broadest at the bottom . It was Sunday , a country church was at hand , and our traveller was willing ...
... human visage . Ladies grew toasts from the size of their chins , and none were regarded as pretty fellows , but such whose faces were broadest at the bottom . It was Sunday , a country church was at hand , and our traveller was willing ...
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... humanity might probably have rendered them insolent ; but the imperious tone , menaces , and blows , at once changed their sensations and their ideas : their ears and shoulders taught their souls to shrink back into servitude , from ...
... humanity might probably have rendered them insolent ; but the imperious tone , menaces , and blows , at once changed their sensations and their ideas : their ears and shoulders taught their souls to shrink back into servitude , from ...
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... human prodigy . The first of his performances , openly , in vindication of the Newtonian system , is his treatise intituled , " Sur la Figure des Astres , " if I remember right ; a work at once expressive of a deep geometrical knowledge ...
... human prodigy . The first of his performances , openly , in vindication of the Newtonian system , is his treatise intituled , " Sur la Figure des Astres , " if I remember right ; a work at once expressive of a deep geometrical knowledge ...
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... human affairs , " as Scott's Baillie Mucklethrift would express it , that ere long we may rationally expect it to be numbered with the places that were : its pleasantness , of late years , having been much deteriorated by the new ...
... human affairs , " as Scott's Baillie Mucklethrift would express it , that ere long we may rationally expect it to be numbered with the places that were : its pleasantness , of late years , having been much deteriorated by the new ...
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Side 298 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Side 298 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Side iii - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Side 298 - To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Side 298 - To die ; — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Side 321 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Side 272 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Side 549 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Side 269 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Side 305 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...