A Handful of Paper ShavingsSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1861 |
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... 141 Truth and Trust . 121 Trouble 138 Trust 86 . Tu Quoque Two - faced People Two Diseases Two Principles of Social Intercourse 76 55 144 145 PAGE . Unconscious Autobiography Unity of Sentiment Unkind Words What CONTENTS . vii .
... 141 Truth and Trust . 121 Trouble 138 Trust 86 . Tu Quoque Two - faced People Two Diseases Two Principles of Social Intercourse 76 55 144 145 PAGE . Unconscious Autobiography Unity of Sentiment Unkind Words What CONTENTS . vii .
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... principle of equality which prevails throughout the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms ! Given , a fool — there is a knave to meet him ; place anywhere a knave - there is a fool to feed him . Some men are born to tell lies , and others ...
... principle of equality which prevails throughout the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms ! Given , a fool — there is a knave to meet him ; place anywhere a knave - there is a fool to feed him . Some men are born to tell lies , and others ...
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... principle in human nature that makes every man delight to be his own individual self and scorn to be any one else . It is not , certainly , the most noble principle , for it is what we we call self- love . PITY AS AN INSULT . Nothing is ...
... principle in human nature that makes every man delight to be his own individual self and scorn to be any one else . It is not , certainly , the most noble principle , for it is what we we call self- love . PITY AS AN INSULT . Nothing is ...
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... principle , and you may keep out of the Union , but I should not be sur- prised if we have to support you out of the county rates some day . OPEN TO CONVICTION . It is wonderful how easily men deceive themselves with the statement that ...
... principle , and you may keep out of the Union , but I should not be sur- prised if we have to support you out of the county rates some day . OPEN TO CONVICTION . It is wonderful how easily men deceive themselves with the statement that ...
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... principles : such an one has no confi- dence in himself . MUTUAL REGARD . Two persons who meet together in company for the first time are apt to part with very similar feelings in regard to each other . The one may think the other a wit ...
... principles : such an one has no confi- dence in himself . MUTUAL REGARD . Two persons who meet together in company for the first time are apt to part with very similar feelings in regard to each other . The one may think the other a wit ...
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Page 131 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Page 127 - And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT.
Page 131 - Romeo : and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world shall be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 83 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 124 - Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 26 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 139 - Oh ! o'er the eye death most exerts his might, And hurls the spirit from her throne of light ! Sinks those blue orbs in that long last eclipse, But spares, as yet, the charm around her lips...
Page 142 - The devil hath not in all his quiver's choice An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.
Page 127 - Thus while he spake, each passion dimm'd his face, Thrice changed with pale, ire, envy, and despair...
Page 143 - As if thou then hadat shut up in thy brain Some horrible conceit.