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... young men and women standing on the platform , in the best of black suits , or the whitest of white dresses , and filling the hearts of at least loving and hopeful parents and friends with won- der and admiration at their first literary ...
... young men and women standing on the platform , in the best of black suits , or the whitest of white dresses , and filling the hearts of at least loving and hopeful parents and friends with won- der and admiration at their first literary ...
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... young men are curious and penetrating , their imaginations are of a roving nature , and their passion under no discipline or restraint . I am in pain for a woman of rank when I see her thus exposing herself to the re- gards of every ...
... young men are curious and penetrating , their imaginations are of a roving nature , and their passion under no discipline or restraint . I am in pain for a woman of rank when I see her thus exposing herself to the re- gards of every ...
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... young Lausus dead ; He grieved , he wept , then grasped his hand and said , " Poor hapless youth ! what praises can be paid To worth so great ? " — Dryden . I shall take another opportunity to consider the other parts of this old song ...
... young Lausus dead ; He grieved , he wept , then grasped his hand and said , " Poor hapless youth ! what praises can be paid To worth so great ? " — Dryden . I shall take another opportunity to consider the other parts of this old song ...
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... young lady that was very warmly solicited by a couple of importunate rivals , who , for several months together , did all they could to recommend themselves , by complacency of behavior and agreeableness of conversation . At length ...
... young lady that was very warmly solicited by a couple of importunate rivals , who , for several months together , did all they could to recommend themselves , by complacency of behavior and agreeableness of conversation . At length ...
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... young ones who stripped them- selves of a tawny skin . There were very great heaps of red noses , large lips , and rusty teeth . The truth of it is , I was sur- prised to see the greatest part of the mountain made up of bod- ily ...
... young ones who stripped them- selves of a tawny skin . There were very great heaps of red noses , large lips , and rusty teeth . The truth of it is , I was sur- prised to see the greatest part of the mountain made up of bod- ily ...
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Página 231 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 308 - 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. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Página 356 - All this is true, if time stood still; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself; which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived.
Página 321 - Nay, retire men cannot when they would; neither will they when it were reason; but are impatient of privateness, even in age and sickness, which require the shadow: like old townsmen that will be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn.
Página 54 - I •wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the Genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. "The islands...
Página 309 - Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other (much too high for a heathen), "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God.
Página 1 - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Página 97 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Página 70 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him. Before this disappointment, Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman, had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege, fought a duel upon his first coming to town, and kicked bully Dawson in a public coffee-house for calling him youngster.
Página 332 - Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: « Abeunt studia in mores. * Nay, there is no stond nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...