Tinsley's Magazine, Volume 9

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Tinsley Brothers, 1871 - English fiction
 

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Page 146 - The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Page 557 - What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change...
Page 366 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Page 33 - Train up a child in the way it should go, and when it is old it will not depart from it.
Page 557 - I will not dwell upon ragouts or roasts, Albeit all human history attests That happiness for man — the hungry sinner! — Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.
Page 558 - Bacon is right, as he generally is, when he bids us read not to contradict and refute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and to consider.
Page 560 - My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies. The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels...
Page 560 - He needs no more than birds and beasts to think, All his occasions are to eat and drink. If he call rogue...
Page 309 - Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.
Page 559 - There dwelt a citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was his name ; Religious, punctual, frugal, and so forth ; His word would pass for more than he was worth. One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's : Constant at church and 'Change ; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.

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