New MiscellaniesTicknor and Fields, 1860 - 375 páginas |
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... fancy at times that they can set the world right , simply by righting its lowest material arrangements . The complaint is perfectly true . They have been ignorant of human nature ; they have forgotten the existence of moral evil ; and ...
... fancy at times that they can set the world right , simply by righting its lowest material arrangements . The complaint is perfectly true . They have been ignorant of human nature ; they have forgotten the existence of moral evil ; and ...
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... fancy themselves beating Satan with his own weapons . If , indeed , these men claimed boldly all print- ing , all wood - cutting , all story - telling , all human arts and sciences , as gifts from God himself ; and said , as the book ...
... fancy themselves beating Satan with his own weapons . If , indeed , these men claimed boldly all print- ing , all wood - cutting , all story - telling , all human arts and sciences , as gifts from God himself ; and said , as the book ...
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... fancy , at six o'clock upon some breezy morning in June , not by roaring railway nor by smoking steamer , but in the cosey four - wheel , along brown heather moors , down into green clay woodlands , over white chalk downs , past Roman ...
... fancy , at six o'clock upon some breezy morning in June , not by roaring railway nor by smoking steamer , but in the cosey four - wheel , along brown heather moors , down into green clay woodlands , over white chalk downs , past Roman ...
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... fancy that the giant trout of the Thames lashers lie in swift water . On the contrary , they lie in the very stillest spot of the whole pool , which is just under the hatches . There the rush of the water shoots over their heads , and ...
... fancy that the giant trout of the Thames lashers lie in swift water . On the contrary , they lie in the very stillest spot of the whole pool , which is just under the hatches . There the rush of the water shoots over their heads , and ...
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... fancy , as Scotchmen think ; a theory which has been stated in detail , and with great sem- blance of truth , in Mr. Stewart's admirable Practical Angler , is a matter about which much good sense has been written on both sides ...
... fancy , as Scotchmen think ; a theory which has been stated in detail , and with great sem- blance of truth , in Mr. Stewart's admirable Practical Angler , is a matter about which much good sense has been written on both sides ...
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Página 317 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Página 285 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Página 81 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Página 117 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are : I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till death, like sleep, might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Página 81 - Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!
Página 117 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround ; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Página 316 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Página 198 - He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread : but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
Página 114 - The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, Is its own origin of ill and end, And its own place and time...
Página 291 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.