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... young enough to begin again , but with whom can I retrace the laughing part of life ? It is odd how few of my friends have died a quiet death , -I mean , in their beds . But a quiet life is of more consequence . Yet one loves squabbling ...
... young enough to begin again , but with whom can I retrace the laughing part of life ? It is odd how few of my friends have died a quiet death , -I mean , in their beds . But a quiet life is of more consequence . Yet one loves squabbling ...
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... young ( not “ quite 17 ) , and appears gentle and pleasing , which is all one can " expect [ to discover from ] a very slight acquaintance . 66 " Now , my dearest Byron , pray let me hear from you . I shall " be daily expecting to hear ...
... young ( not “ quite 17 ) , and appears gentle and pleasing , which is all one can " expect [ to discover from ] a very slight acquaintance . 66 " Now , my dearest Byron , pray let me hear from you . I shall " be daily expecting to hear ...
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... young W. W. ? and shall I never be a Godfather ? I believe I must be married myself soon , but it shall be a secret and a Surprise . However , knowing your exceeding discretion I shall probably entrust the secret to your silence at a ...
... young W. W. ? and shall I never be a Godfather ? I believe I must be married myself soon , but it shall be a secret and a Surprise . However , knowing your exceeding discretion I shall probably entrust the secret to your silence at a ...
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... young people in the world , this objection would not apply to you , whom I could see frequently . Your expenses , too , would be such as best suit your inclinations , more or less , as you thought proper ; but very little would be ...
... young people in the world , this objection would not apply to you , whom I could see frequently . Your expenses , too , would be such as best suit your inclinations , more or less , as you thought proper ; but very little would be ...
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... young Remembrance then remain , Be as it may Whate'er beside Futurity's behest ; Howe'er may be For me ' twere bliss enough to see thy spirit blest ! I think it proper to state to you , that this stanza alludes to an event which has ...
... young Remembrance then remain , Be as it may Whate'er beside Futurity's behest ; Howe'er may be For me ' twere bliss enough to see thy spirit blest ! I think it proper to state to you , that this stanza alludes to an event which has ...
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Page 124 - Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Page 490 - Gul in her bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute: Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?
Page 100 - Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
Page 335 - By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Page 475 - And think'st thou, Scott! by vain conceit perchance, On public taste to foist thy stale romance, Though Murray with his Miller may combine To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line? No! when the sons of song descend to trade, Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. Let such forego the poet's sacred name, Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame: Still for stern mammon may they toil in vain!
Page 390 - Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane;" and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out! If this which he avouches does appear, There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here. I gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish the estate o
Page 21 - A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd, except for purposes of punishment ; and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong ; and when the world is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer? Human passions have probably disfigured the divine doctrines here : — but the whole thing is inscrutable.
Page 70 - Tried as thou wert — even from thy earliest years, When wandering, yet unspoilt, a Highland boy — Tried as thou wert, and with thy soul of flame ; Pleasure, while yet the down was on thy cheek, Uplifting, pressing, and to lips like thine, Her charmed cup — ah, who among us all Could say he had not erred as much, and more ?
Page 320 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Page 386 - Just returned from seeing Kean in Richard. By Jove, he is a soul ! Life — nature — truth without exaggeration or diminution. Kemble's Hamlet is perfect ; — but Hamlet is not Nature. Richard is a man ; and Kean is Richard.