Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volumen 15Charles Dudley Warner International Society, 1896 |
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... side , and if the refrain is here a burden , to be sung throughout the piece by certain voices while others sing the words of the song , we have every right to think of an earlier refrain which almost absorbed the poem and was sung by 1 ...
... side , and if the refrain is here a burden , to be sung throughout the piece by certain voices while others sing the words of the song , we have every right to think of an earlier refrain which almost absorbed the poem and was sung by 1 ...
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... side . Again , in England there was little distinc- tion made between the singer who entertained court and castle and the gleeman who sang in the villages and at rural festivals ; the lat- ter doubtless taking from the common stock more ...
... side . Again , in England there was little distinc- tion made between the singer who entertained court and castle and the gleeman who sang in the villages and at rural festivals ; the lat- ter doubtless taking from the common stock more ...
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... side , Where I and my love wont to gae . I lean'd my back unto an aik , I thought it was a trusty tree ; But first it bowed and syne it brak , Sae my true - love did lightly1 me . Oh waly , waly , but love be bonny A little time , while ...
... side , Where I and my love wont to gae . I lean'd my back unto an aik , I thought it was a trusty tree ; But first it bowed and syne it brak , Sae my true - love did lightly1 me . Oh waly , waly , but love be bonny A little time , while ...
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... side ? Pu'd you the rose or lily ? Or came you by yon meadow green ? Or saw you my sweet Willy ? » She sought him east , she sought him west , She sought him brade and narrow ; Syne , in the clifting of a craig , She found him drowned ...
... side ? Pu'd you the rose or lily ? Or came you by yon meadow green ? Or saw you my sweet Willy ? » She sought him east , she sought him west , She sought him brade and narrow ; Syne , in the clifting of a craig , She found him drowned ...
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... side should he choose , the right or the wrong ? Jack - A great lawyer's business is always to make choice of the wrong . Serjeant - And prithee , why so ? Jack - Because a good cause can speak for itself , whilst a bad one demands an ...
... side should he choose , the right or the wrong ? Jack - A great lawyer's business is always to make choice of the wrong . Serjeant - And prithee , why so ? Jack - Because a good cause can speak for itself , whilst a bad one demands an ...
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Página 5959 - I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbid myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as certainly...
Página 5946 - The small progress we have made after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, — our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, — is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We, indeed, seem to feel our own want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different...
Página 5942 - They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows: " Friends," says he, " the taxes are, indeed, very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us.
Página 5955 - I cross'd these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column...
Página 5934 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Página 5946 - I had made of the sense of all ages and nations. However, I resolved to be the better for the echo of it, and though I had at first determined to buy stuff for a new coat, I went away resolved to wear my old one a little longer.
Página 5946 - I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men.
Página 5956 - Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Página 6129 - He studieth his scholars' natures as carefully as they their books; and ranks their dispositions into several forms. And though it may seem difficult for him in a great school to descend to all particulars, yet experienced schoolmasters may quickly make a grammar of boys' natures, and reduce them all — saving some few exceptions — to these general rules : 1.
Página 5929 - The next observed, that the word makes might as well be omitted, because his customers would not care who made the hats; if good, and to their mind, they would buy, by whomsoever made. He struck it out. A third said he thought the words for ready money, were useless, as it was not the custom of the place to sell on credit.