Horæ subsecivæEdmonston and Douglas, 1862 - 486 pages |
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... expression , and his love of being loved , he would have most desired , in any one speaking of him , after he was gone . He would , I doubt not , say , as one said to a great painter , on looking at his por- trait , ' It is certainly ...
... expression , and his love of being loved , he would have most desired , in any one speaking of him , after he was gone . He would , I doubt not , say , as one said to a great painter , on looking at his por- trait , ' It is certainly ...
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... expressing every kind of thought in the same , sometimes plaguily douce tone ; a great power of quiet and telling sar- casm , large capacity of listening to and of enjoying other men's talk , however small . - My father tall , slim ...
... expressing every kind of thought in the same , sometimes plaguily douce tone ; a great power of quiet and telling sar- casm , large capacity of listening to and of enjoying other men's talk , however small . - My father tall , slim ...
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... expression of his affection was more like the shock of a Leyden jar , than the continuous current of a galvanic circle . There was , as I have said , a permanent chill given by my mother's death , to what may be called the outer surface ...
... expression of his affection was more like the shock of a Leyden jar , than the continuous current of a galvanic circle . There was , as I have said , a permanent chill given by my mother's death , to what may be called the outer surface ...
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... expression - is Mr. Harvey's , done for Mr. Crum of Busby : it was taken when he was failing , but it is an excellent likeness as well as a noble picture ; such a picture as one would buy without knowing anything of the subject . So ...
... expression - is Mr. Harvey's , done for Mr. Crum of Busby : it was taken when he was failing , but it is an excellent likeness as well as a noble picture ; such a picture as one would buy without knowing anything of the subject . So ...
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... expression . He was very difficult to take , partly because he was so full of what may be called spiritual beauty , evanescent , ever changing , and re- quiring the highest kind of genius to fix it ; and partly from his own fault , for ...
... expression . He was very difficult to take , partly because he was so full of what may be called spiritual beauty , evanescent , ever changing , and re- quiring the highest kind of genius to fix it ; and partly from his own fault , for ...
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Page 95 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 104 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Page 55 - God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
Page 424 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 469 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Page 423 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 105 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 95 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
Page 280 - RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 355 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.