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... appearance , I was not quite such a fool as I looked , and this last manœuvre put my attention on the qui vive . I had heard of fingers being placed to foreheads , and looks and glances interchanged with affected care- lessness to ...
... appearance , I was not quite such a fool as I looked , and this last manœuvre put my attention on the qui vive . I had heard of fingers being placed to foreheads , and looks and glances interchanged with affected care- lessness to ...
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... appearance , they became the most united couple in the country ; but it must be said , that their comfort was not complete till they had seen each other , in safety , over the perilous anniversary of St. Mark's Eve . - BEAR AND FORBEAR ...
... appearance , they became the most united couple in the country ; but it must be said , that their comfort was not complete till they had seen each other , in safety , over the perilous anniversary of St. Mark's Eve . - BEAR AND FORBEAR ...
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... appearance . THE ADVANTAGE OF LONG HAIR . " No one would take you for what you are , " said an old fashioned gentleman to a dandy , who had more hair then brains , ” “ Why ? " was immediately asked , " Because they cannot see your ears ...
... appearance . THE ADVANTAGE OF LONG HAIR . " No one would take you for what you are , " said an old fashioned gentleman to a dandy , who had more hair then brains , ” “ Why ? " was immediately asked , " Because they cannot see your ears ...
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... appearance of reason to the sarcasm of writers like Voltaire . There is a well- known story in our own jest book much to the point . A man walking along the road is ridden over by a troop of horse , but unexpectedly escapes unhurt ...
... appearance of reason to the sarcasm of writers like Voltaire . There is a well- known story in our own jest book much to the point . A man walking along the road is ridden over by a troop of horse , but unexpectedly escapes unhurt ...
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... appearance of some special object on the steeple . This intelligence spread like wild - fire , and his point being gained , the reverend wag slipped quietly away . Not so the crowd , which continued swelling and lingering about the spot ...
... appearance of some special object on the steeple . This intelligence spread like wild - fire , and his point being gained , the reverend wag slipped quietly away . Not so the crowd , which continued swelling and lingering about the spot ...
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art thou asked AUGEAS beauty better bright called character church Church of England Court DEAN SWIFT dear death DEDDINGTON Democles dinner doctor DOCTOR JOHNSON dress Duke DUKE OF WELLINGTON earth England English EPIGRAM eyes fair feel flowers gentleman George III give hair hand happy head hear heart honour hope hour human husband Iago Irish keep kind King labour learned Ligier live look Lord marriage married master mind morning mother nature never night o'er once paper says passion person pleasure poet poor Quakers Queen reign remarked replied rich shew sleep smile sorrow soul speak spirit sure sweet tears tell thee things Thirty-nine Articles thou thought truth virtue wife wish WISH BONE woman words young lady youth
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Página 242 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Página 372 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease...
Página 144 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! logo.
Página 252 - Tis brightness all ; save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current. Low, the woods Bow their hoar head ; and, ere the languid Sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Página 339 - For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept : then had I been at rest...
Página 255 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Página 209 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like...
Página 54 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud, instead, and ever-during dark, Surrounds me...
Página 343 - O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew!
Página 298 - Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea...