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... AUTHOR OF " GERALDINE , " & c . & c " All pages of human life are worth reading ; the wise instruct , the gay divert us , the imprudent teach us what to shun , the absurd cure the spleen . " MRS . MONTAGUE . There is much to be said on ...
... AUTHOR OF " GERALDINE , " & c . & c " All pages of human life are worth reading ; the wise instruct , the gay divert us , the imprudent teach us what to shun , the absurd cure the spleen . " MRS . MONTAGUE . There is much to be said on ...
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... author of some merit . " " Had I passed three weeks , instead of three days with them , " observed Sir Henry , " I might perhaps have discovered that they had every virtue under Hea- ven ; " but three days- ' 99 " Three days ...
... author of some merit . " " Had I passed three weeks , instead of three days with them , " observed Sir Henry , " I might perhaps have discovered that they had every virtue under Hea- ven ; " but three days- ' 99 " Three days ...
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... author , " said Constance , " it does not inspire me with the least confidence -- it does not afford me the smallest consolation - they are such practised barbarians . Recollect the atrocities they perpetrate , the unprovoked murders ...
... author , " said Constance , " it does not inspire me with the least confidence -- it does not afford me the smallest consolation - they are such practised barbarians . Recollect the atrocities they perpetrate , the unprovoked murders ...
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... author ! " 6 HAZLITT . " I HAVE delightful news for you , dear mother , " ex- claimed Constance , as she was looking over the news- paper the next day " at last Woodstock ' is an- nounced - it is in the press , and will really be pub ...
... author ! " 6 HAZLITT . " I HAVE delightful news for you , dear mother , " ex- claimed Constance , as she was looking over the news- paper the next day " at last Woodstock ' is an- nounced - it is in the press , and will really be pub ...
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... author-- and I pity the intellectual blindness that cannot per- ceive it , as much as I do the poor sightless creature for whom the sun in full splendour shines in vain . " " I am something like that matter - of - fact person , the ...
... author-- and I pity the intellectual blindness that cannot per- ceive it , as much as I do the poor sightless creature for whom the sun in full splendour shines in vain . " " I am something like that matter - of - fact person , the ...
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Página 60 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Página 197 - 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 53 - tis not forbidden here : Amid the groves you may indulge the muse, Or tend the blooms, and deck the vernal year ; Or softly stealing, with your watery gear, Along the brooks, the crimson-spotted fry You may delude ; the whilst, amused, you hear Now the hoarse stream, and now the zephyr's sigh, Attuned to the birds, and woodland melody.
Página 197 - But, let me whisper i' your lug, Ye're aiblins nae temptation. VII. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; 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.
Página 37 - ... all those who are placed below the flight of fame, and who hear in the valleys of life no voice but that of necessity...
Página 24 - The stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land! The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam; And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Página 75 - Or in the starry regions, or th' abyss, To Reason's and to Fancy's eye display'd ; The first up-tracing from the dreary void, The chain of causes and effects to Him, The world-producing Essence, who alone Possesses being ; while the last receives The whole magnificence of heaven...
Página 42 - But we are to rejoice with those that rejoice, and to weep with those that weep.