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... looks and address full of kindness and benevolence ; but whenever he stood straight up ( for he always had to stoop about half - way when speaking to a common - sized man like me ) , then you could not help perceiving a little of the ...
... looks and address full of kindness and benevolence ; but whenever he stood straight up ( for he always had to stoop about half - way when speaking to a common - sized man like me ) , then you could not help perceiving a little of the ...
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... looks which I cast to a beloved corner of the dining - room , what was wanting . Then , with ' Oh , I beg your pardon , Hogg , I was forgetting , ' he would take out a small gold key that hung by a chain of the same precious metal from ...
... looks which I cast to a beloved corner of the dining - room , what was wanting . Then , with ' Oh , I beg your pardon , Hogg , I was forgetting , ' he would take out a small gold key that hung by a chain of the same precious metal from ...
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... Look fiendish , James , and suit the action to the word . You have not imitated Burns ? Shepherd . Me imitate Burns ! 1 Faith , no ! —Just let me tak a caulker o ' the Glenlivet before I begin spootin . Noo for't- ( SHEPHERD puts ...
... Look fiendish , James , and suit the action to the word . You have not imitated Burns ? Shepherd . Me imitate Burns ! 1 Faith , no ! —Just let me tak a caulker o ' the Glenlivet before I begin spootin . Noo for't- ( SHEPHERD puts ...
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... look down , Who swells at a smile , and faints at a frown , With noble maid stay not to parle , But give her one glance of the golden arle . Then , oh , there's a creature thou needs must see , Upright , and saintly , and stern is she ...
... look down , Who swells at a smile , and faints at a frown , With noble maid stay not to parle , But give her one glance of the golden arle . Then , oh , there's a creature thou needs must see , Upright , and saintly , and stern is she ...
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... Look at the nerveless laxity of his Excursion ! -What interminable prosing ! -The language is out of condition : -fat and fozy , thick - winded , purfled and plethoric . Can he be compared with Pope ? -Fie on't ! no , no , no ! -Pugh ...
... Look at the nerveless laxity of his Excursion ! -What interminable prosing ! -The language is out of condition : -fat and fozy , thick - winded , purfled and plethoric . Can he be compared with Pope ? -Fie on't ! no , no , no ! -Pugh ...
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Página 354 - Memoir of Sir William Hamilton, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. By Professor VEITCH of the University of Glasgow. 8vo, with Portrait, 18s.
Página 46 - Disuse in him forgetfulness had wrought, In Latin he composed his history ; A garrulous, but a lively tale, and fraught With matter of delight, and food for thought. And if he could in Merlin's glass have seen By whom his tomes to speak our tongue were taught, The old man would have felt as pleased, I ween, As when he won the ear of that great empress- queen.
Página 18 - To what a low state knowledge of the most obvious and important phenomena had sunk, is evident from the style in which Dryden has executed a description of Night in one of his Tragedies, and Pope his translation of the celebrated moon-light scene in the Iliad.
Página 18 - Pope still retain their hold upon public estimation,— nay, there is not a passage of descriptive poetry which at this day finds so many and such ardent admirers. Strange to think of an enthusiast, as may have been the case with thousands, reciting those verses under the cope of a moon-light sky, without having his raptures in the least disturbed by a suspicion of their absurdity.
Página 195 - Rich as a rainbow with its hues of light, Pure as the moonshine of an autumn night : Weep not for Her ' Weep not for her ! — There is no cause for woe"; But rather nerve the spirit that it walk Unshrinking o'er the thorny paths below, And from earth's low defilements keep thee back : So, when a few fleet severing years have flown, She'll meet thee at heaven's gate — and lead thee on ! Weep not for Her.