A Thousand and One Gems of English ProseG. Routledge, 1872 - 534 sidor |
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... lands and honours ; and lest they be the more dangerous , by how much the less suspected ; but the best is , it is a pleasure so fenced from the slothful with thorny labour of hard and long studies , that laziness saveth more from it ...
... lands and honours ; and lest they be the more dangerous , by how much the less suspected ; but the best is , it is a pleasure so fenced from the slothful with thorny labour of hard and long studies , that laziness saveth more from it ...
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... land , is , at first rising , little , and easily viewed ; but , still as you go , it gapeth with a wider bank ; not without pleasure and delightful winding , while it is on both sides set with trees , and the beauties of various ...
... land , is , at first rising , little , and easily viewed ; but , still as you go , it gapeth with a wider bank ; not without pleasure and delightful winding , while it is on both sides set with trees , and the beauties of various ...
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... lands , and food of the Immortals , celestial Body - guard and raiment , were alone useful , and as if of the Empire of Mankind . Even in the sight , thought , and admiration were all weak Human Memory they survive so profitless ; so ...
... lands , and food of the Immortals , celestial Body - guard and raiment , were alone useful , and as if of the Empire of Mankind . Even in the sight , thought , and admiration were all weak Human Memory they survive so profitless ; so ...
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... land . The statesman is the leader of a nation , the warrior is the grace of an age , the philosopher is the birth of a thousand years ; but the lover , where is he not ? Wherever parents look round upon their children , there he has ...
... land . The statesman is the leader of a nation , the warrior is the grace of an age , the philosopher is the birth of a thousand years ; but the lover , where is he not ? Wherever parents look round upon their children , there he has ...
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... land ; to what roses and violets hint and fore- show . We cannot get at beauty . Its nature is like opaline doves ' - neck lustres , hovering and evanescent . Herein it re- sembles the most excellent things , which all have this rainbow ...
... land ; to what roses and violets hint and fore- show . We cannot get at beauty . Its nature is like opaline doves ' - neck lustres , hovering and evanescent . Herein it re- sembles the most excellent things , which all have this rainbow ...
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Sida 94 - 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.
Sida 400 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Sida 400 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him ; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it ; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honour for his valour, and death for his ambition.
Sida 445 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Sida 416 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
Sida 436 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the...
Sida 4 - ... consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading...
Sida 399 - Be not too tame neither; but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Sida 399 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus: but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Sida 436 - Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could...