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... better from a pensive face , And thoughtful eye , and a reflecting brow . TO THE AUTHOR OF POEMS , PUBLISHED UNDER THE NAME OF BARRY CORNWALL . XXII . LET hate , or grosser heats , their foulness mask Under the vizor of a borrowed name ...
... better from a pensive face , And thoughtful eye , and a reflecting brow . TO THE AUTHOR OF POEMS , PUBLISHED UNDER THE NAME OF BARRY CORNWALL . XXII . LET hate , or grosser heats , their foulness mask Under the vizor of a borrowed name ...
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... better guests ' places , Peevish and malecontent , Clownish , impertinent , Dashing the merriment ; So in like fashions Dim cogitations Follow and haunt me , Striving to daunt me , In my heart festering , In my ears whispering , " Thy ...
... better guests ' places , Peevish and malecontent , Clownish , impertinent , Dashing the merriment ; So in like fashions Dim cogitations Follow and haunt me , Striving to daunt me , In my heart festering , In my ears whispering , " Thy ...
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... better , But a more fit choice in a wife . Mrs. F. The parched ground , [ Aside . My humour In hottest Julys , drinks not in the showers More greedily than I his words ! Selby . Is to be frank and jovial ; and that man Affects me best ...
... better , But a more fit choice in a wife . Mrs. F. The parched ground , [ Aside . My humour In hottest Julys , drinks not in the showers More greedily than I his words ! Selby . Is to be frank and jovial ; and that man Affects me best ...
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... better now : Please you go on . Selby . The sequel shall be brief . Kath . But brief or long , I feel my fate hangs on it . Selby . " One morn the Caliph , in a covert hid , Close by an arbour where the two boys talked ( As oft , we ...
... better now : Please you go on . Selby . The sequel shall be brief . Kath . But brief or long , I feel my fate hangs on it . Selby . " One morn the Caliph , in a covert hid , Close by an arbour where the two boys talked ( As oft , we ...
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... Better and better . I marvel what Daniel hath got to say in reply . Dan . I marvel more when thou wilt say anything to the purpose , thou shallow serving - man , whose swiftest conceit carries thee no higher than to apprehend with ...
... Better and better . I marvel what Daniel hath got to say in reply . Dan . I marvel more when thou wilt say anything to the purpose , thou shallow serving - man , whose swiftest conceit carries thee no higher than to apprehend with ...
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Page 341 - Despair at me doth throw; 0 make in me those civil wars to cease; 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
Page 306 - My conceit of his person was never increased towards him by his place or honours ; but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Page 367 - Do you remember how we eyed it for weeks before we could make up our minds to the purchase, and had not come to a determination till it was near ten o'clock of the Saturday night, when you set off from Islington, fearing you should be too late — and when the old bookseller with some...
Page 237 - I did not cry or take it to heart as some do, and as I think he would have done if I had died, yet I missed him all day long, and knew not till then how much I had loved him. I missed his kindness, and I missed his crossness, and wished him to be alive again, to be quarrelling...
Page 500 - I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 237 - Then in somewhat a more heightened tone, I told how, though their great-grandmother Field loved all her grand-children, yet in an especial manner she might be said to love their uncle, John L , because he was so handsome and spirited a youth, and a king to the rest of us ; and, instead of moping about in solitary corners, like some of us, he would mount the most...
Page 236 - I in particular used to spend many hours by myself in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would seem to live again, or I to be turned into marble with them...
Page 253 - Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn him so much now ; still, he licked his fingers from a sort of habit. The truth at length broke into his slow understanding that it was the pig that smelt so, and the pig that tasted so delicious...
Page 566 - Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.— FULLER, THOMAS, 1655, The Church History of Britain, bk.
Page 235 - Certain it is that the whole story of the children and their cruel uncle was to be seen fairly carved out in wood upon the chimney-piece of the great hall, the whole story down to the...