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... wanted to catch a lady's heart , what would be your bait ? C. I would come to see her every Tuesday night , and sit with her until the cock crew in the morning . H. And what would you talk about during these precious interviews ? C ...
... wanted to catch a lady's heart , what would be your bait ? C. I would come to see her every Tuesday night , and sit with her until the cock crew in the morning . H. And what would you talk about during these precious interviews ? C ...
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... wanted milking , and the cream wanted churning , and I wanted a wife . H. O ! I am the most wretched creature under heaven . Death or poverty would be infinitely pre- ferable to such an union . C. What's the matter , Miss Oldbug ; does ...
... wanted milking , and the cream wanted churning , and I wanted a wife . H. O ! I am the most wretched creature under heaven . Death or poverty would be infinitely pre- ferable to such an union . C. What's the matter , Miss Oldbug ; does ...
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... , and the e cream wanted churnin H. O ! I am the heaven . Death or ferable to such an d you to you to set father w king , and a with creature w infinitely C. What's the matter , Mas Didung head ache ? 82 THE PURITAN .
... , and the e cream wanted churnin H. O ! I am the heaven . Death or ferable to such an d you to you to set father w king , and a with creature w infinitely C. What's the matter , Mas Didung head ache ? 82 THE PURITAN .
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... wanted a character , another bid me tell my story ; which I did , concealing , however , the most offensive parts , which I supposed would only disgrace our family . She heard me with a most incredulous look , eyed me with the sharpest ...
... wanted a character , another bid me tell my story ; which I did , concealing , however , the most offensive parts , which I supposed would only disgrace our family . She heard me with a most incredulous look , eyed me with the sharpest ...
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... wanted me no longer ; she gave me my wages , a few cast gowns , a ten - dollar bill , and dismissed me to find another place , promising me , however , if asked , a good character , I next lived with a wedded lady who had no children ...
... wanted me no longer ; she gave me my wages , a few cast gowns , a ten - dollar bill , and dismissed me to find another place , promising me , however , if asked , a good character , I next lived with a wedded lady who had no children ...
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Página 206 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art; Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.
Página 195 - He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Página 195 - Yond" Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Página 131 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Página 104 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man— like flowers.
Página 41 - And certainly discipline is not only the removal of disorder; but if any visible shape can be given to divine things, the very visible shape and image of virtue, whereby she is not only seen in the regular gestures and motions of her heavenly paces as she walks, but also makes the harmony of her voice audible to mortal ears.
Página 181 - A sect, whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies ; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract or monkey sick...
Página 105 - Thus groan the old, till by disease oppress'd, They taste a final woe, and then they rest. Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day; — • There children dwell who know no parents...
Página 240 - These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of Nature, refracted from their straight line. Indeed, in the gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections that it becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction.
Página 206 - Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards...