A Handful of Paper ShavingsSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1861 |
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... Telling People of their Faults The Ideal . The Balance of Evils 26 29 74 34 18 28 The Two Sides of Life The Last Repose .. The Passions The Weakness of Man's Faith 48 53 57 57 The Mind in a Smile .. The First Object of Faith .. The ...
... Telling People of their Faults The Ideal . The Balance of Evils 26 29 74 34 18 28 The Two Sides of Life The Last Repose .. The Passions The Weakness of Man's Faith 48 53 57 57 The Mind in a Smile .. The First Object of Faith .. The ...
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... tell you that if you had won your wish perhaps you would have gained a loss ; but that , being disappointed , it may be you have escaped an unforeseen evil . ' Tis a cowardly consolation : and there is something so selfish and conceited ...
... tell you that if you had won your wish perhaps you would have gained a loss ; but that , being disappointed , it may be you have escaped an unforeseen evil . ' Tis a cowardly consolation : and there is something so selfish and conceited ...
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... tell whether the rough unhandsome overcoat which some characters wear really covers an unamiable spirit by observing how the brute creation is treated . Mere uncouthness of manners which never ceases to mark a man in his communion with ...
... tell whether the rough unhandsome overcoat which some characters wear really covers an unamiable spirit by observing how the brute creation is treated . Mere uncouthness of manners which never ceases to mark a man in his communion with ...
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... telling disparaging stories of your dearest friend , but professing much attachment to you and pitying your confiding innocence in trusting your friend— giving you pity as the dupe of the person he abuses - which gets the worst ...
... telling disparaging stories of your dearest friend , but professing much attachment to you and pitying your confiding innocence in trusting your friend— giving you pity as the dupe of the person he abuses - which gets the worst ...
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... TELLING PEOPLE OF THEIR FAULTS . Telling people of their faults is one of the most difficult duties of friendship . You may speak to a man of his failings candidly and with the best intentions , and yet give him much offence ; -and that ...
... TELLING PEOPLE OF THEIR FAULTS . Telling people of their faults is one of the most difficult duties of friendship . You may speak to a man of his failings candidly and with the best intentions , and yet give him much offence ; -and that ...
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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.