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... Faces • " " 142 142 Leisure Hour 142 N. P. Willis 143 Beattie 145 147 · Gorrie 145 Marryat 146 147 Dr. Hayden 147 Dr. G. Wilson 147 Encyc . Edin . 148 Dr. G. Wilson 149 H. R. Haweis 149 Barrow 152 Herrick 153 Sir W. Raleigh 153 Richard ...
... Faces • " " 142 142 Leisure Hour 142 N. P. Willis 143 Beattie 145 147 · Gorrie 145 Marryat 146 147 Dr. Hayden 147 Dr. G. Wilson 147 Encyc . Edin . 148 Dr. G. Wilson 149 H. R. Haweis 149 Barrow 152 Herrick 153 Sir W. Raleigh 153 Richard ...
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... face . After having given him something to refresh him , upon inquiring into the cause of his alarm , they found that his wild imagina- tion having pictured to him the bosom of one of the ladies with eyes ( which was reported of a lady ...
... face . After having given him something to refresh him , upon inquiring into the cause of his alarm , they found that his wild imagina- tion having pictured to him the bosom of one of the ladies with eyes ( which was reported of a lady ...
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... face were remarkably handsome , especially his eyes . He was adored by his friends - friends of the most opposite dispositions , ages , and talents : by the old and wayward Wycherley , by the cynical Swift , the rough Atterbury , the ...
... face were remarkably handsome , especially his eyes . He was adored by his friends - friends of the most opposite dispositions , ages , and talents : by the old and wayward Wycherley , by the cynical Swift , the rough Atterbury , the ...
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... face physic out of countenance . She knows a fair look is but a dumb orator to commend virtue , therefore minds it not . All her ex- cellencies stand in her so silently , as if they had stolen upon her without her knowledge . The lining ...
... face physic out of countenance . She knows a fair look is but a dumb orator to commend virtue , therefore minds it not . All her ex- cellencies stand in her so silently , as if they had stolen upon her without her knowledge . The lining ...
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... faces of the wretches assembled round the coffin of the poor dead outcast , that figure of the little boy , dressed in a mourning cloak and funeral weepers , who is to make one in the procession , calmly winding up his peg - top ; as ...
... faces of the wretches assembled round the coffin of the poor dead outcast , that figure of the little boy , dressed in a mourning cloak and funeral weepers , who is to make one in the procession , calmly winding up his peg - top ; as ...
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Page vi - He was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 139 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Page 71 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 122 - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought And simple truth his utmost skill!
Page 132 - GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 103 - Go, lovely Rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows When I resemble her to thee How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Page 23 - Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will burn.
Page 115 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom...
Page 98 - Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church it shows What's good, and doth no good: If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others...
Page 99 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates. And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.