Thirty Years Ago: Or, The Memoirs of a Water Drinker, Volume 2Bancroft & Holley, 1836 - Literary Criticism |
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... fear not . " 66 Corruption wins not more than honesty . " " We call a nettle but a nettle and The faults of folly but folly . " " A sick man's appetite , who desires most that Which would increase his evil . " B And , since you know you ...
... fear not . " 66 Corruption wins not more than honesty . " " We call a nettle but a nettle and The faults of folly but folly . " " A sick man's appetite , who desires most that Which would increase his evil . " B And , since you know you ...
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... fears , his doubts , and his perplexities - his wife . With every disposition to frankness , he became incommunicative where most he should have confided . We shall see the result . While our hero's affairs were in this posture , and ...
... fears , his doubts , and his perplexities - his wife . With every disposition to frankness , he became incommunicative where most he should have confided . We shall see the result . While our hero's affairs were in this posture , and ...
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... fear you will fa- tigue yourself — you read as if you felt every word . " " I hope I do feel what I read ; and I hope you have felt every word . " " Miss Emmy , " said Kent , " I hope it's no offence to say so , but you read better than ...
... fear you will fa- tigue yourself — you read as if you felt every word . " " I hope I do feel what I read ; and I hope you have felt every word . " " Miss Emmy , " said Kent , " I hope it's no offence to say so , but you read better than ...
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... fear of danger from him . We are great advocates of the doctrine of sympathies and antipa- thies ; and we think they operate full as much on individuals of opposite sexes , as they do on those of the same . Philosophers will hereafter ...
... fear of danger from him . We are great advocates of the doctrine of sympathies and antipa- thies ; and we think they operate full as much on individuals of opposite sexes , as they do on those of the same . Philosophers will hereafter ...
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... fear . At all events we shall see how he takes the demand . He has acknowledged that he bullied the men . He knows he was right in reproving their insolence . He will not apologize . Then follows the rest as may be . " " But can he ...
... fear . At all events we shall see how he takes the demand . He has acknowledged that he bullied the men . He knows he was right in reproving their insolence . He will not apologize . Then follows the rest as may be . " " But can he ...
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Page 121 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 197 - Massachusetts, is to be expended for books for the College Library. The other half of the income is devoted to scholarships in Harvard University for the benefit of descendants of HENRY BRIGHT...
Page 83 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
Page 111 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 121 - The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 35 - Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time ; But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
Page 89 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast . keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue. If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Page 111 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 181 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
Page 137 - Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
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Drunkard's Progress: Narratives of Addiction, Despair, and Recovery John W. Crowley No preview available - 1999 |