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... poor and unmeaning , the forms not rounded , the execution slight , the colouring warm , indeed , but false , and besides , in places faded and washed out . " The con- noisseur appears to have felt a greater admiration for Hogarth's ge ...
... poor and unmeaning , the forms not rounded , the execution slight , the colouring warm , indeed , but false , and besides , in places faded and washed out . " The con- noisseur appears to have felt a greater admiration for Hogarth's ge ...
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... Poor souls ! I know they were up all night - God bless you all .'- With this he sunk into a very tranquil sleep , and , indeed , he scarcely after- wards gave any sign of consciousness , except for an instant on the arrival of his sons ...
... Poor souls ! I know they were up all night - God bless you all .'- With this he sunk into a very tranquil sleep , and , indeed , he scarcely after- wards gave any sign of consciousness , except for an instant on the arrival of his sons ...
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... poor affectation to treat thus lightly the dark falsehood you conceived - the awful curse you inflicted upon me ! Your sight is now so painful to me - it so stirs the passions that I would seek to suppress - that the sooner our ...
... poor affectation to treat thus lightly the dark falsehood you conceived - the awful curse you inflicted upon me ! Your sight is now so painful to me - it so stirs the passions that I would seek to suppress - that the sooner our ...
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... poor , and his contempt for the rich , gave his character an air of superiority , and which excited the greatest enthusiasm . Those whom he chose to honour with his familiarity , left his society in ecstasy at his transcendant qualities ...
... poor , and his contempt for the rich , gave his character an air of superiority , and which excited the greatest enthusiasm . Those whom he chose to honour with his familiarity , left his society in ecstasy at his transcendant qualities ...
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... poor unknown sable son of Africa Vultures , as far as I have been able to observe , do not keep together in a large flock , when they are soaring up and down apparently in quest of a tainted current . Now , suppose a mule has just ...
... poor unknown sable son of Africa Vultures , as far as I have been able to observe , do not keep together in a large flock , when they are soaring up and down apparently in quest of a tainted current . Now , suppose a mule has just ...
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Página 32 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man — be virtuous — be religious — be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Página 112 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Página 597 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Página 602 - At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 32 - Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm, that every window was wide open — and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.
Página 599 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Página 466 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 602 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.
Página 601 - With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of my ears did pour The leperous distilment ; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quick-silver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And with a sudden vigour it doth posset And curd, like eager...
Página 600 - That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, ]3ut our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; When down her weedy trophies, and herself, Fell in the weeping brook.