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... employed in giving effect to the wishes and plans of the boy . " Thus it is too that the ambition of pointing a sentence often leads a writer to trans- gress the limits of sense . Had he sub- stituted indiscretion there would have been ...
... employed in giving effect to the wishes and plans of the boy . " Thus it is too that the ambition of pointing a sentence often leads a writer to trans- gress the limits of sense . Had he sub- stituted indiscretion there would have been ...
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... employed in making one ; nor was he , at least at that time , known as a trafficker with Jews , or an associate of ... employ it successfully ; and when he became manager , had , as the vulgar phrase is , the ball at his foot . Besides ...
... employed in making one ; nor was he , at least at that time , known as a trafficker with Jews , or an associate of ... employ it successfully ; and when he became manager , had , as the vulgar phrase is , the ball at his foot . Besides ...
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... employed in roman- ces to prolong the embarrassments of the dramatis persone , and which per- haps are not in the present case very artificially interposed . Considering , as it proves to be the case , that Mrs Purcel was the guilty ...
... employed in roman- ces to prolong the embarrassments of the dramatis persone , and which per- haps are not in the present case very artificially interposed . Considering , as it proves to be the case , that Mrs Purcel was the guilty ...
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... employed by me on that occasion , for he was not my or dinary agent , say to him , that he may remember it by the token that there was some trouble about procuring change for a double Portugal piece when I settled my account with him ...
... employed by me on that occasion , for he was not my or dinary agent , say to him , that he may remember it by the token that there was some trouble about procuring change for a double Portugal piece when I settled my account with him ...
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... employed as places of punishment , are by no means uncom- mon ; and I never shall forget the im- pression produced on my mind by the celebrated history of Count Alberti's confinement in the horrible quicksilver mines of Idria , as ...
... employed as places of punishment , are by no means uncom- mon ; and I never shall forget the im- pression produced on my mind by the celebrated history of Count Alberti's confinement in the horrible quicksilver mines of Idria , as ...
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Página 10 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Página 232 - ... are bold and full, and varied seemingly beyond all limits. They consist of short expressions of two, three, or, at the most, five or six syllables ; generally interspersed with imitations, and all of them uttered with great emphasis and rapidity ; and continued, with undiminished ardour, for half an hour, or an hour, at a time.
Página 509 - NICOLINI'S History of the Jesuits : their Origin, Progress, Doctrines, and Designs. With 8 Portraits. 5*. NORTH (R.) Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guildford, the Hon. Sir Dudley North, and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. John North. By the Hon. Roger North. Together with the Autobiography of the Author. Edited by Augustus Jessopp, DD 3 vols. 3^. 6d.
Página 266 - Rides high ; then all the upper air they fill With roaring sound, that ceases not to flow, Like smoke, along the level of the blast, In mighty current ; theirs, too, is the song Of stream and headlong flood that seldom fails; And, in the grim and breathless hour of noon, Methinks that I have heard them echo back The thunder's greeting...
Página 253 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Página 523 - Candour, which spares its foes, nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends ; Candour, which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too nice to praise by wholesale or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives are the same ; And finds, with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white.
Página 218 - ... which could not stand against unrestrained foreign competition would be discouraged, yet, as no importation could be continued for any length of time without a corresponding exportation, direct or indirect, there would be an encouragement for the purpose of that exportation, of some other production to which our situation might be better suited ; thus affording at least an equal, and probably a greater, and certainly a more beneficial, employment to our own capital and labour.
Página 265 - Many are the notes Which, in his tuneful course, the wind draws forth From rocks, woods, caverns, heaths, and dashing shores; And well those lofty brethren bear their part In the wild concert — chiefly when the storm Rides high; then all the upper air they fill With roaring sound, that ceases not to flow, Like smoke, along the level of the blast, In mighty current; theirs, too, is the song Of stream and headlong flood that seldom...
Página 266 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere; Thither the rainbow comes — the cloud — And mists that spread the flying shroud; And sunbeams; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past; But that enormous barrier holds it fast.
Página 398 - Their notion of its perfect rest. A convent, even a hermit's cell, Would break the silence of this dell : It is not quiet, is not ease ; But something deeper far than these : The separation that is here Is of the grave ; and of austere Yet happy feelings of the dead : And, therefore, was it rightly said That Ossian, last of all his race ! Lies buried in this lonely place.