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... least matters , is not for a person so poorly educated - so worse than left to grow up in an ignorance unsophisticate . Of the creatures that furnished the materials of his hat and coat , the curious , handicraft beaver , the spinster ...
... least matters , is not for a person so poorly educated - so worse than left to grow up in an ignorance unsophisticate . Of the creatures that furnished the materials of his hat and coat , the curious , handicraft beaver , the spinster ...
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... least in all those of the recorded instances that are received as properly authenticated ; and little birds , pipets and others , have been observed most in- dustriously feeding cuckoos , after these had acquired their young or hair ...
... least in all those of the recorded instances that are received as properly authenticated ; and little birds , pipets and others , have been observed most in- dustriously feeding cuckoos , after these had acquired their young or hair ...
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... least possible cost of pain ; to secure the permanent good at the smallest and least enduring inconvenience ; to inake the blessings that are to be diffused among the many , fall as lightly as possible in the shape of evil on the few ...
... least possible cost of pain ; to secure the permanent good at the smallest and least enduring inconvenience ; to inake the blessings that are to be diffused among the many , fall as lightly as possible in the shape of evil on the few ...
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... least as liable to fall to the wo- man's share as the man's , and the " needles and pins " And God quite as capable of wounding her as him . knows how true this is : but men hitherto have had the making of proverbs to themselves . Women ...
... least as liable to fall to the wo- man's share as the man's , and the " needles and pins " And God quite as capable of wounding her as him . knows how true this is : but men hitherto have had the making of proverbs to themselves . Women ...
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... least after three parts of our heart ; for we have a fourth , which is a little more serious than Brother Merry's ; but we like him mightily , for he is a personification of ani- mal spirits and their natural goodness and good - will ...
... least after three parts of our heart ; for we have a fourth , which is a little more serious than Brother Merry's ; but we like him mightily , for he is a personification of ani- mal spirits and their natural goodness and good - will ...
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Page 84 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 118 - Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage and hounds...
Page 92 - Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ; Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes ; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries.
Page 84 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 84 - The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 26 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough; Farmer he, and landlord thou!
Page 100 - Gnomes direct, to every atom just. The pungent grains of titillating dust. Sudden, with starting tears each eye o'erflows, And the high dome re-echoes to his nose. "Now meet thy fate," incensed Belinda cried, And drew a deadly bodkin from her side.
Page 44 - My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares; And all my good is but vain hope of gain; The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun; And now I live, and now my life is done.
Page 26 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.
Page 83 - How ill this taper burns! — Ha! who comes here ? I think, it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition.