PatchworkSmith, Elder, 1879 - 234 páginas A commonplace book, prose and verse original and selected. |
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... talked about , his works sell , and are perhaps read . This reaction about Poe is really too hard upon him — if ever his character should be entirely rehabilitated the world will find out he was something of a literary charlatan . THE ...
... talked about , his works sell , and are perhaps read . This reaction about Poe is really too hard upon him — if ever his character should be entirely rehabilitated the world will find out he was something of a literary charlatan . THE ...
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... talked a good deal about sea - sick- ness , and the remedies usually employed - ' Quant à moi , quand je suis en mer je ferme les yeux , et je pense à une jolie femme - je pense à Marie Stuart . ' Very shortly afterwards his fellow ...
... talked a good deal about sea - sick- ness , and the remedies usually employed - ' Quant à moi , quand je suis en mer je ferme les yeux , et je pense à une jolie femme - je pense à Marie Stuart . ' Very shortly afterwards his fellow ...
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... , like a fair shepherdess in her country russet , talking in a Yorkshire tone . ' John Dryden ( 1631-1701 ) . STONEHENGE . ' That huge dumb heap , which stands 26 PATCHWORK . not to be silent, she did not know what ...
... , like a fair shepherdess in her country russet , talking in a Yorkshire tone . ' John Dryden ( 1631-1701 ) . STONEHENGE . ' That huge dumb heap , which stands 26 PATCHWORK . not to be silent, she did not know what ...
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... talking nonsense , that the cow had merely gone off its milk in consequence of his wife being confined to bed , and the cow given over to the management of his daughter , a girl of fourteen years of age . He said , ' I ken weel wha has ...
... talking nonsense , that the cow had merely gone off its milk in consequence of his wife being confined to bed , and the cow given over to the management of his daughter , a girl of fourteen years of age . He said , ' I ken weel wha has ...
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... talking of ordinary subjects to his friend while turning the wheel which repeats his prayers . ' In public places in Japan wheels with three spokes are benevolently mounted on stout posts for the gratuitous use of travellers . In a ...
... talking of ordinary subjects to his friend while turning the wheel which repeats his prayers . ' In public places in Japan wheels with three spokes are benevolently mounted on stout posts for the gratuitous use of travellers . In a ...
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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 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 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.
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.