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Page 131
Time - time , sir , will most likely tell the truth , ” said Mrs . M - Andrews . At this
moment Davie arrived with the coffee , and thus terminated the conversation
relative to a subject on which I could not avoid musing . At three o ' clock on the ...
Time - time , sir , will most likely tell the truth , ” said Mrs . M - Andrews . At this
moment Davie arrived with the coffee , and thus terminated the conversation
relative to a subject on which I could not avoid musing . At three o ' clock on the ...
Page 133
Professing philanthropists may expatiate on their familiarity with man ' s worst
condition , and tell of dens of infamy and disease , but it is the parish doctor and
the good physician who are brought in daily and intimate relation with those
gloomy ...
Professing philanthropists may expatiate on their familiarity with man ' s worst
condition , and tell of dens of infamy and disease , but it is the parish doctor and
the good physician who are brought in daily and intimate relation with those
gloomy ...
Page 155
No figures - known to men may tell The numbers of that throng ; They pour up
from morass and fell , And mountain - bulwark strong ; They crown the peaks '
twixt earth and sky ; They thread the straight defiles ; They fill the valleys silently ;
They ...
No figures - known to men may tell The numbers of that throng ; They pour up
from morass and fell , And mountain - bulwark strong ; They crown the peaks '
twixt earth and sky ; They thread the straight defiles ; They fill the valleys silently ;
They ...
Page 167
Och , then , I ' ll tell you what to do , my boy , ” said O ' Wiggins . * 6 Just look in at
the regattas to the westward , and then run over to Cherbourg . I ' ve just come
across from there , and all the world of France is talking of the grand naval review
...
Och , then , I ' ll tell you what to do , my boy , ” said O ' Wiggins . * 6 Just look in at
the regattas to the westward , and then run over to Cherbourg . I ' ve just come
across from there , and all the world of France is talking of the grand naval review
...
Page 174
But I tell you , old gentleman , my intentions are most honourable towards the
lady ! ” exclaimed Groggs , trying to save his head from being scalped entirely . “ I
tell you , sir , I have rarely seen so much beauty and excellence combined ; and ,
if ...
But I tell you , old gentleman , my intentions are most honourable towards the
lady ! ” exclaimed Groggs , trying to save his head from being scalped entirely . “ I
tell you , sir , I have rarely seen so much beauty and excellence combined ; and ,
if ...
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Page 315 - And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects ; with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain and fear, until we recognise A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
Page 462 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 313 - Gentle Henrietta then, And a third Mary next began, Then Joan and Jane and Audria, And then a pretty Thomasine, And then another Catherine, And then a long
Page 279 - I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
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Page 241 - Journal, which is a very extraordinary production *, and of a most melancholy truth in all that regards high life in England. I know, or knew personally, most of the personages and societies which he describes ; and after reading his remarks, have the sensation fresh upon me as if I had seen them yesterday. I would however plead in behalf of some few exceptions, which I will mention by and by.
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Page 488 - ... like fate. He performed a treason or a court-bow, he told a falsehood as black as Styx, as easily as he paid a compliment or spoke about the weather. He took a mistress, and left her; he betrayed his benefactor, and supported him, or would have murdered him, with the same calmness always, and having no more remorse than Clotho when she weaves the thread, or Lachesis when she cuts it In the hour of battle I have heard the Prince of Savoy's officers say, the Prince became possessed with a sort...