Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 3Charles Dudley Warner International Society, 1896 |
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Página 976
... less than it was worth ; and besides that , he owned the fishing - right , which was also worth something . Grubersepp at last took the house off his hands , with the design of putting a servant of his , who intended to marry in the ...
... less than it was worth ; and besides that , he owned the fishing - right , which was also worth something . Grubersepp at last took the house off his hands , with the design of putting a servant of his , who intended to marry in the ...
Página 979
... less he sent a present which was not only of intrinsic value , but was also a most flattering souvenir ; for a colt is usually given by a rich farmer to a younger brother when about to depart . In the eyes of all the world - that is to ...
... less he sent a present which was not only of intrinsic value , but was also a most flattering souvenir ; for a colt is usually given by a rich farmer to a younger brother when about to depart . In the eyes of all the world - that is to ...
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... less affront . I offer my resignation . Poirier And I was about to ask for it , my good friend ; but as one has eight days to replace a servant- Vatel - A servant , Monsieur ? I am an artist ! Poirier - I will fill your place by a woman ...
... less affront . I offer my resignation . Poirier And I was about to ask for it , my good friend ; but as one has eight days to replace a servant- Vatel - A servant , Monsieur ? I am an artist ! Poirier - I will fill your place by a woman ...
Página 1014
... less gross forms of philosophical speculation , and presently began to lecture on rhetoric at Tagaste and at Carthage . When nearly thirty years of age he went to Rome , only to be disappointed . in his hopes for glory as a rhetorician ...
... less gross forms of philosophical speculation , and presently began to lecture on rhetoric at Tagaste and at Carthage . When nearly thirty years of age he went to Rome , only to be disappointed . in his hopes for glory as a rhetorician ...
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... less reason to despair of the reclamation of even such persons , if among our most declared enemies there are now some , unknown to them- selves , who are destined to become our friends . In truth , these two cities are entangled ...
... less reason to despair of the reclamation of even such persons , if among our most declared enemies there are now some , unknown to them- selves , who are destined to become our friends . In truth , these two cities are entangled ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Æsop Ahura Mazda asked Averroës Avesta Babrius Bacon ballad Balzac better called character child Child Maurice cried dear death delight earth Émile Augier Emperor English evil eyes father fear feelings Fourchambault France give hand Hansei Haoma happy hath heard heart heaven HENRY MARTYN BAIRD honor hope human Irma James Spedding King knowledge Le Père Goriot learning light literary literature live look Lord Lord Randal Madame Marcus Aurelius matter mind Monsieur mother Napoleon nature never noble novel passion philosophy pleasure poet Poirier political praise Pride and Prejudice priest Robert Aytoun seemed sister soldier soul speak spirit story tell thee things thou thought tion true truth unto verse voice Walpurga whole wife woman words write Yasht Yasna young Zoroaster
Passagens conhecidas
Página 1167 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 1168 - WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting.
Página 1169 - One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum d&monum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt; such as we spake of before.
Página 1175 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, ' Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Página 989 - Away with cant, and let him that is without sin among you cast the first stone.
Página 1170 - REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Página 1173 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Página 1342 - There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. They hadna...
Página 1334 - Why dois your brand sae drap wi bluid, Edward, Edward? Why dois your brand sae drap wi bluid, And why sae sad gang yee O?' 'OI hae killed my hauke sae guid, Mither, mither, OI hae killed my hauke sae guid, And I had nae mair bot hee O.' 'Your haukis bluid was nevir sae reid, Edward, Edward, Your haukis bluid was nevir sae reid, My deir son, I tell thee O.
Página 1333 - O where hae ye been, Lord Randal, my son? O where hae ye been, my handsome young man?" "I hae been to the wild wood; mother, make my bed soon. For I'm weary wi' hunting, and fain wald lie down." "Where gat ye your dinner, Lord Randal, my son? Where gat ye your dinner, my handsome young man?
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Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 William Meredith Carroll Visualização de excertos - 1954 |
Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 William Meredith Carroll Visualização de excertos - 1954 |