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... half - yearly dividends ( supposing thou art a lean annuitant like myself ) —to the Flower Pot , to secure a place for Dalston , or Shacklewell , or some other thy suburban retreat northerly - didst thou never observe a melancholy ...
... half - yearly dividends ( supposing thou art a lean annuitant like myself ) —to the Flower Pot , to secure a place for Dalston , or Shacklewell , or some other thy suburban retreat northerly - didst thou never observe a melancholy ...
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... half- forgotten humours of some old clerks defunct , in an old house of business , long since gone to decay , doubtless you have already set me down in your mind as one of the self- same college - a votary of the desk - a notched and ...
... half- forgotten humours of some old clerks defunct , in an old house of business , long since gone to decay , doubtless you have already set me down in your mind as one of the self- same college - a votary of the desk - a notched and ...
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... half Januses * are we , that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert ! The mighty future is as nothing , being everything ! the past is everything , being nothing ! What were thy dark ages ? Surely the ...
... half Januses * are we , that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert ! The mighty future is as nothing , being everything ! the past is everything , being nothing ! What were thy dark ages ? Surely the ...
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... half in all the laborious years he served this man . He tells a pleasant anecdote , that when poverty , staring out at his ragged knees , has sometimes compelled him , against the modesty of his nature , to hint at arrears , Dr ...
... half in all the laborious years he served this man . He tells a pleasant anecdote , that when poverty , staring out at his ragged knees , has sometimes compelled him , against the modesty of his nature , to hint at arrears , Dr ...
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... half - pickled Sundays , or quite fresh boiled beef on Thursdays ( strong as caro equina ) , with de- testable marigolds floating in the pail to poison the broth- our scanty mutton scrags on Fridays — and rather more sa- voury , but ...
... half - pickled Sundays , or quite fresh boiled beef on Thursdays ( strong as caro equina ) , with de- testable marigolds floating in the pail to poison the broth- our scanty mutton scrags on Fridays — and rather more sa- voury , but ...
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Page 330 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 97 - But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation...
Page 285 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Page 268 - Townsfolk my strength ; a daintier judge applies His praise to sleight, which from good use doth rise ; Some lucky wits impute it but to chance ; Others, because of both sides I do take My blood from them, who did excel in this, Think Nature me a man of arms did make. How far they shot awry ! the true cause is, STELLA looked on, and from her heavenly face Sent forth the beams which made so fair my race.
Page 101 - Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide: There like a bird it sits, and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings; And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Page 154 - It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness : for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Page 119 - ... came to decay, and was nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments stripped and carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawingroom. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " that would be foolish indeed.
Page 266 - Then, even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me, Is constant love deem'd there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call 'virtue' there — ungratefulness? 94. Sleep /^OME, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace, ^** The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th...
Page 174 - No purity of the marriage bed is stained — for none is supposed to have a being. No deep affections are disquieted, no holy wedlock bands are snapped asunder — for affection's depth and wedded faith are not of the growth of that soil. There is neither right nor wrong, — gratitude or its opposite, — claim or duty, — paternity or sonship.
Page 99 - Indeed, it is the most elegant spot in the metropolis. What a transition for a countryman visiting London for the first time the passing from the crowded Strand or Fleet-street, by unexpected avenues, into its magnificent ample squares, its classic green recesses!