The Melange: A Variety of Original Pieces in Prose and Verse : Comprising the Elysium of AnimalsEgerton Smith and Company, 1831 - 634 páginas |
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... Ferdinand and his Ancestors . It is an observation as trite as it is true , that every man how insignificant soever he may appear to others , is of some importance in his own estimation . This universal feeling can alone account for the ...
... Ferdinand and his Ancestors . It is an observation as trite as it is true , that every man how insignificant soever he may appear to others , is of some importance in his own estimation . This universal feeling can alone account for the ...
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... Ferdinand , if it be only to ac- count for his mysterious intercourse with the extraordinary being who will act so prominent a part in the scenes about to be described . Although of foreign extraction , the family of Ferdinand has ...
... Ferdinand , if it be only to ac- count for his mysterious intercourse with the extraordinary being who will act so prominent a part in the scenes about to be described . Although of foreign extraction , the family of Ferdinand has ...
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... Ferdinand's grandfather was so fortunate as to select England for his adopted home ; and by the exer- eise of those ... Ferdinand , in his library , in his ordinary costume . of night - gown and slippers . CHAP . II . Ferdinand , who had ...
... Ferdinand's grandfather was so fortunate as to select England for his adopted home ; and by the exer- eise of those ... Ferdinand , in his library , in his ordinary costume . of night - gown and slippers . CHAP . II . Ferdinand , who had ...
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... Ferdinand became so thoroughly jaded that his eyes refused any longer to per- form their office , his head sunk back on his chair , and his wearied mind took refuge in Sleep , that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care . " The work ...
... Ferdinand became so thoroughly jaded that his eyes refused any longer to per- form their office , his head sunk back on his chair , and his wearied mind took refuge in Sleep , that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care . " The work ...
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... Ferdinand , who gazed on it with a mixed sensation of curiosity and awe . His first impression was succeeded by compassion for this diminutive and persecuted cripple , and indignation towards the unfeeling urchins who were making a ...
... Ferdinand , who gazed on it with a mixed sensation of curiosity and awe . His first impression was succeeded by compassion for this diminutive and persecuted cripple , and indignation towards the unfeeling urchins who were making a ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 82 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Página 61 - To be no more : sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity., To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Página 417 - ... for all power given with trust for the attaining an end, being limited by that end, whenever that end is manifestly neglected or opposed, the trust must necessarily be forfeited, and the power devolve into the hands of those that gave it who may place it anew where they shall think best for their safety and security.
Página 216 - Witch. WHEN shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain ? 2 Witch.
Página 8 - Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace, First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain : Arid when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy supreme command But fall untimely by some hostile hand, And lie unburied in the common sand.
Página 123 - Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time : after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Página 275 - HARMLESS mirth is the best cordial against the consumption of the spirits : wherefore jesting is not unlawful if it trespasseth not in quantity, quality, or season.
Página 221 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. — I'll not fight with thee. Macd. Then, yield thee, coward, And live to be the show and gaze o...
Página 447 - ... without any warrant or authority from any power either divine or human, but in direct contradiction to the laws both of God and man : and therefore the law has justly fixed the crime and punishment of murder, on them, and on their seconds also z.
Página 1 - The garden fears no blight, and needs no fence, For there is none to covet, all are full, The lion, and the libbard, and the bear, Graze with the fearless flocks ; all bask at noon Together, or all gambol in the shade Of the same grove, and drink one common stream.