The Casket of Literary Gems: Containing Tales and Sketches. Choice Selections. Anecdotes. Wit and HumorW.G. Holmes, 1879 - 304 páginas |
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... learned precisely what you can do : you have thrown the hammer so often that you know to an inch how far you can throw it — at least you are a great fool if you do not . The world , too , has been looking on and Alexander Smith,
... learned precisely what you can do : you have thrown the hammer so often that you know to an inch how far you can throw it — at least you are a great fool if you do not . The world , too , has been looking on and Alexander Smith,
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... learned to love . As you pass onward you are attended by your henchman Memory , who may be either the cheerfullest or gloomiest of companions . You have come up out of the sweet - smelling valley - flowers ; you are now on the broken ...
... learned to love . As you pass onward you are attended by your henchman Memory , who may be either the cheerfullest or gloomiest of companions . You have come up out of the sweet - smelling valley - flowers ; you are now on the broken ...
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... learned what a pleasure there is in customariness and use and wont - in having everything around him familiar , tried , confidential . Life may have become humdrum , but his tastes have become humdrum too . Novelty annoys him , the ...
... learned what a pleasure there is in customariness and use and wont - in having everything around him familiar , tried , confidential . Life may have become humdrum , but his tastes have become humdrum too . Novelty annoys him , the ...
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... men and the women therein to do the right thing if they could but see how — and he has learned to be uncensorious , humane ; to attribute the · best motives to every action , and to be ΙΙΟ THE CASKET OF LITERARY GEMS .
... men and the women therein to do the right thing if they could but see how — and he has learned to be uncensorious , humane ; to attribute the · best motives to every action , and to be ΙΙΟ THE CASKET OF LITERARY GEMS .
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... learned reader this is that muscle which performs the motion so often mentioned by the Latin poets , when they talk of a man's cocking his nose , or playing the rhinoceros . We did not find anything very remarkable in the eye , saving ...
... learned reader this is that muscle which performs the motion so often mentioned by the Latin poets , when they talk of a man's cocking his nose , or playing the rhinoceros . We did not find anything very remarkable in the eye , saving ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 245 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Página 151 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
Página 150 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Página 161 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny, but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Página 133 - Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet ; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable ; his compliments perverse ; his talk a trouble ; his stay pertinacious ; and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a Corner as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances.
Página 174 - That living flood, pouring through these streets, of all qualities and ages, knowest thou whence it is coming, whither it is going? Aus der Ewigkeit, zu der Ewigkeit hin: From Eternity, onwards to Eternity 1 These are Apparitions: what else? Are they not Souls rendered visible: in Bodies, that took shape and will lose it, melting into air?
Página 161 - ... appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult.
Página 162 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Página 210 - Sir, she had read the old romances, and had got into her head the fantastical notion that a woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog. So, sir, at first she told me that I rode too fast, and she could not keep up with me; and, when I rode a little slower, she passed me, and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice; and I resolved to begin as I meant to end. I therefore pushed on briskly, till I was fairly out of her sight. The road lay between two hedges, so...
Página 132 - He sticketh by the port — yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remaindei glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are fearful of being too obsequious, or not civil enough, to him. The guests think "they have seen him before.