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... sure if Lamb must not have been happier in the days of his office labour than in that quiet monotonous home at Enfield , haunted by fears for his sister , the only light in their dreamy lives then being the presence of Miss Isola under ...
... sure if Lamb must not have been happier in the days of his office labour than in that quiet monotonous home at Enfield , haunted by fears for his sister , the only light in their dreamy lives then being the presence of Miss Isola under ...
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... sure Contained , and to one purpose steadfast drawn , Our soul's salvation ! Thou , and I , dear friend , With filial recognition sweet , shall know One day the face of our dear mother in heaven ; And her remembered looks of love shall ...
... sure Contained , and to one purpose steadfast drawn , Our soul's salvation ! Thou , and I , dear friend , With filial recognition sweet , shall know One day the face of our dear mother in heaven ; And her remembered looks of love shall ...
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... sure forlorn Wanting thee , that aidest more The god's victories than before All his panthers , and the brawls Of his piging Bacchanals . These , as stale , we disallow , Or judge of the meant : only thou His true Indian conquest art ...
... sure forlorn Wanting thee , that aidest more The god's victories than before All his panthers , and the brawls Of his piging Bacchanals . These , as stale , we disallow , Or judge of the meant : only thou His true Indian conquest art ...
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... sure , safe spot , and dry land , Anchor in his scaly rind ; Soon the difference they find ; Sudden plumb he sinks beneath them ; Does to ruthless waves bequeath them . Name or title , what has he ? Is he Regent of the sea ? From this ...
... sure , safe spot , and dry land , Anchor in his scaly rind ; Soon the difference they find ; Sudden plumb he sinks beneath them ; Does to ruthless waves bequeath them . Name or title , what has he ? Is he Regent of the sea ? From this ...
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... With envy , to think that she ne'er did the like ; And since some Lavaters , with head - pieces comical , Have agreed to pronounce people's hands physiognomical , Be sure that you stuff it with autographs plenty , 54 POEMS .
... With envy , to think that she ne'er did the like ; And since some Lavaters , with head - pieces comical , Have agreed to pronounce people's hands physiognomical , Be sure that you stuff it with autographs plenty , 54 POEMS .
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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...