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... give the names of celebrated men , mytho- logical personages , and heroes of romance , to their children . Nowhere , also , are so many Cæsars to be met with , who are as timid as hares , Ciceros who stutter , and Narcissuses who are ...
... give the names of celebrated men , mytho- logical personages , and heroes of romance , to their children . Nowhere , also , are so many Cæsars to be met with , who are as timid as hares , Ciceros who stutter , and Narcissuses who are ...
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... give way before this privation of blood ( anemia ) , and sink after a few years into the grave . One morning , the " maréchal des logis " of the gendarmerie brought word that one of the convicts - Chevalier by name - was missing , on ...
... give way before this privation of blood ( anemia ) , and sink after a few years into the grave . One morning , the " maréchal des logis " of the gendarmerie brought word that one of the convicts - Chevalier by name - was missing , on ...
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... give , but which proceeds from self - abnegation , and from conquering the evil desires of the sinful flesh . " Dyveké did not well know what to answer to this speech ; but even the presence of the generally stern monk could not banish ...
... give , but which proceeds from self - abnegation , and from conquering the evil desires of the sinful flesh . " Dyveké did not well know what to answer to this speech ; but even the presence of the generally stern monk could not banish ...
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... give you good advice . " " And that advice , " said Ulrika to herself , as she left Dyveké alone , " will be to quit King Christian and elope with him . Better for her , poor thing , to be the wife of Torben Oxé than what she is the ...
... give you good advice . " " And that advice , " said Ulrika to herself , as she left Dyveké alone , " will be to quit King Christian and elope with him . Better for her , poor thing , to be the wife of Torben Oxé than what she is the ...
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... give way and drop , but where all remain suspended by the resistance which pressure opposes to their fall . " † 66 For , as Hartley Coleridge - in no connexion with this topic - has thankfully observed ‡ -frail and corrupt as human ...
... give way and drop , but where all remain suspended by the resistance which pressure opposes to their fall . " † 66 For , as Hartley Coleridge - in no connexion with this topic - has thankfully observed ‡ -frail and corrupt as human ...
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Page 176 - Not as a child shall we again behold her ; For when with raptures wild In our embraces we again enfold her, She will not be a child ; But a fair maiden, in her Father's mansion, Clothed with celestial grace ; And beautiful with all the soul's expansion Shall we behold her face.
Page 417 - I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell ; But this alone I know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.* 1 Sec Proverbial Expressions.
Page 176 - We will be patient, and assuage the feeling We may not wholly stay ; By silence sanctifying, not concealing, The grief that must have way THE BUILDERS.
Page 173 - Discourse may want an animated — No, To brush the surface, and to make it flow ; But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease. The mark, at which my juster aim I take, Is contradiction for its own dear sake.
Page 436 - He laughed at this idea, and observed that there was a good deal to be said in favour of my views, and he trusted that I would pass unharmed through what he considered a most perilous undertaking. On leaving Cosenza, I had not determined where I should pass the night, as I find they have no very accurate idea of distance; they talk much in the same way as we do in Scotland of a mile and a bittock, which small addition turns out to be quadruple of what you had at first expected.
Page 176 - She is not dead, the child of our affection, But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives, whom we call dead.
Page 321 - I dined yesterday at Mrs. Garrick's with Mrs. Carter, Miss Hannah More, and Miss Fanny Burney. Three such women are not to be found: I know not where I could find a fourth, except Mrs. Lennox, who is superior to them all.
Page 433 - The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed ; the waters were then restored to their natural channel, and the secret spot, where the remains of Alaric had been deposited, was for ever concealed by the inhuman massacre of the prisoners who had been employed to execute the work.
Page 203 - Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. — Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.
Page 176 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead...