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... appear ! The one is broad and bold , its author has caught the expression of the fleeting cloud , and you marvel that it glides not from the canvas . From a short distance you look at it , and say , " That is life itself . " Close at ...
... appear ! The one is broad and bold , its author has caught the expression of the fleeting cloud , and you marvel that it glides not from the canvas . From a short distance you look at it , and say , " That is life itself . " Close at ...
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... appear to have been de- termined without any pressure from without , or suggestings from within ; and often as we close the memoirs of men , -good , bad , and indifferent , we are led to exclaim with Burns , " One point must still be ...
... appear to have been de- termined without any pressure from without , or suggestings from within ; and often as we close the memoirs of men , -good , bad , and indifferent , we are led to exclaim with Burns , " One point must still be ...
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... appearing , the teacher and the poet everywhere seen , and we often find the novelist retiring , the stern moralist occupying his place . It has been remarked , that Bulwer has failed in no branch of literature , and that every possible ...
... appearing , the teacher and the poet everywhere seen , and we often find the novelist retiring , the stern moralist occupying his place . It has been remarked , that Bulwer has failed in no branch of literature , and that every possible ...
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... appears yet to have been either won or lost , save life and blood and treasure . And looking at the respective " situations " of to - day , and a year ago ; we are compelled to reiterate the question , " How long is it to last ? " We ...
... appears yet to have been either won or lost , save life and blood and treasure . And looking at the respective " situations " of to - day , and a year ago ; we are compelled to reiterate the question , " How long is it to last ? " We ...
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... appears to receive the addresses of correspondents , ) and recommended them to have given her a sound whipping , with a view of teaching her to turn her good education to a better use than she appears to be at present capable of . A ...
... appears to receive the addresses of correspondents , ) and recommended them to have given her a sound whipping , with a view of teaching her to turn her good education to a better use than she appears to be at present capable of . A ...
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Page 221 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 221 - ... as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the...
Page 171 - Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest. For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled ; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.
Page 88 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 201 - There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruined battlement, For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.
Page 125 - No, no! knock his brains out; down with him; kill him at once.' Others said, 'Nay, but we will hear him first.' I began asking, 'What evil have I done? Which of you all have I wronged in word or deed?
Page 224 - Then the hangman kneeled down and asked her forgiveness, whom she forgave most willingly. Then he willed her to stand upon the straw ; which doing, she saw the block. Then she said, " I pray you dispatch me quickly.
Page 126 - An honest butcher, who was a little farther off said it was a shame they should do thus; and pulled back four or five, one after another, who were running on the most fiercely. The people then, as if it had been by common consent, fell back to the right and left; while those three or four men took me between them, and carried me through them all. But on the bridge the mob rallied again: we therefore went on one side over the...
Page 125 - In the mean time my strength and my voice returned, and I broke out aloud into prayer. And now the man who had just before headed the mob, turned and said, ' Sir, I will spend my life for you. Follow me, and not one soul here shall touch a hair of your head.
Page 221 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me.