The cruet stand, select pieces of prose and poetry, Volumen21853 |
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Página 71
... flowers spring And wild birds sing A merry roundelay ; Where violets blue breathe sweet perfume , And daisies glad the scene , Where cowslip rare , And primrose fair , Reflect their yellow sheen . A cot between whose straw thatch'd roof ...
... flowers spring And wild birds sing A merry roundelay ; Where violets blue breathe sweet perfume , And daisies glad the scene , Where cowslip rare , And primrose fair , Reflect their yellow sheen . A cot between whose straw thatch'd roof ...
Página 73
... flowers ! " Yes , Charles , I was thinking of the same thing . These flowers are dandelions , and when they are gathered and put in a pot with a a piece of good fat pork , they make the best greens in the world ! " GEORGE STEPHENSON ...
... flowers ! " Yes , Charles , I was thinking of the same thing . These flowers are dandelions , and when they are gathered and put in a pot with a a piece of good fat pork , they make the best greens in the world ! " GEORGE STEPHENSON ...
Página 85
... Flowers on field and broom on brie , O'er earth and air and ocean , Nature holds her jubilee . Soft then , stealing , comes a feeling O'er my bosom tenderly ; Sweet I ponder as I wander , For my musings are for thee . Everywhere and ...
... Flowers on field and broom on brie , O'er earth and air and ocean , Nature holds her jubilee . Soft then , stealing , comes a feeling O'er my bosom tenderly ; Sweet I ponder as I wander , For my musings are for thee . Everywhere and ...
Página 96
... flower garden and flour barrel ; and though her lesson should be to lesson expence , the scent of a fine rose should not be less scented than the cent in the till . She will , doubtless , prefer a yard of shrubbery to a yard of satin ...
... flower garden and flour barrel ; and though her lesson should be to lesson expence , the scent of a fine rose should not be less scented than the cent in the till . She will , doubtless , prefer a yard of shrubbery to a yard of satin ...
Página 97
... flowers once in a hundred years . But life is made up of little things , and that character is the best which does little but repeated acts of beneficence ; just as that conversation is the best which consists in elegant and pleasing ...
... flowers once in a hundred years . But life is made up of little things , and that character is the best which does little but repeated acts of beneficence ; just as that conversation is the best which consists in elegant and pleasing ...
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answer appear apples shaking asked beauty better birds blessing bright called Church Church of England CIRCASSIAN BEAUTY clouds cold dear death DEDDINGTON divine DUKE OF WELLINGTON earth English language eyes fair father fear feel flowers gentleman George Faulkner give grace habit hand happy hath head heart Heaven honour hope horse hour human imputed righteousness king lady Lady Jane Grey learned light Little Bo Peep little ground squirrel live look Lord LORD JOHN RUSSELL married mind moral morning nature never night o'er observed once pain passed person pleasure poet poor replied round says scene shew sing soon soul spirit stars sure sweet tell thee things thou thought toil truth vapours walk whole wife wind wish woman word young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 240 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Página 240 - Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not ; for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman...
Página 274 - It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 238 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 266 - I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
Página 96 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Página 221 - Then holding the spectacles up to the court — Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle As wide as the ridge of the Nose is ; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.
Página 291 - My heart is awed within me, when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on, In silence, round me — the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Forever.
Página 221 - So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning ; While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship...
Página 238 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.