PatchworkSmith, Elder, 1879 - 234 páginas A commonplace book, prose and verse original and selected. |
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... feet the night before His death , that unspeakable instance of humility and love , above all art , all meanness , and all pride , and in the leave He took of them on that occasion , " My peace I give unto you ; that peace 8 PATCHWORK .
... feet the night before His death , that unspeakable instance of humility and love , above all art , all meanness , and all pride , and in the leave He took of them on that occasion , " My peace I give unto you ; that peace 8 PATCHWORK .
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... death in a wood while he was going the circuit . About a year afterwards , we read in the same newspaper , “ We are afraid we have just lost another judge by bees , " and then followed a somewhat frightful description of the ...
... death in a wood while he was going the circuit . About a year afterwards , we read in the same newspaper , “ We are afraid we have just lost another judge by bees , " and then followed a somewhat frightful description of the ...
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... death . I opened my eyes , or , rather , sight came to them when closed , and dream was vision . Hundreds of creatures , no taller than the crest of a lapwing , and all hanging down their veiled heads , stood in a circle , in a green ...
... death . I opened my eyes , or , rather , sight came to them when closed , and dream was vision . Hundreds of creatures , no taller than the crest of a lapwing , and all hanging down their veiled heads , stood in a circle , in a green ...
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... death of her husband . She expected an eloquent answer of condolence , and this is what she got : ' Hélas ! madame , votre affectionné & c . & c . , Talleyrand . ' In less than a year another letter , from the same lady , informed the ...
... death of her husband . She expected an eloquent answer of condolence , and this is what she got : ' Hélas ! madame , votre affectionné & c . & c . , Talleyrand . ' In less than a year another letter , from the same lady , informed the ...
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... death on the spot ; but in our common ghost stories you always find that the seer , after a most appalling apparition , as you are led to believe , is quite well the next day ! This shows that the apparition was the creature of his own ...
... death on the spot ; but in our common ghost stories you always find that the seer , after a most appalling apparition , as you are led to believe , is quite well the next day ! This shows that the apparition was the creature of his own ...
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Página 45 - And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Página 45 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer!
Página 41 - Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust: The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.
Página 40 - Had we but world enough, and time — This coyness, Lady, were no crime : We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Should'st rubies find : I by the tide Of Humber would complain.
Página 100 - Who is on my side? who?" And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses : and he trode her under foot.
Página 12 - Except for love's sake only. Do not say ' I love her for her smile — her look — her way Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day ' — For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee, — and love, so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, — A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love...
Página 172 - ... though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image? — surely not!
Página 41 - Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant...
Página 11 - IF thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say " I love her for her smile . . her look . . her way Of speaking gently, . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day...
Página 44 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.