Spare HoursTicknor and Fields, 1862 - 458 pages |
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... expression , says , " confusion and perplexity are , in writing , indeed without excuse , because any one may , if he pleases , know whether he understands or sees through what he is about , and it is unpardonable in a man to lay his ...
... expression , says , " confusion and perplexity are , in writing , indeed without excuse , because any one may , if he pleases , know whether he understands or sees through what he is about , and it is unpardonable in a man to lay his ...
Page 60
... expression , we don't know any better models for manly courage , good sense , and feeling , and they are as well written as they are thought . - There are the works of another man , one of the great- est , not only of our , but of any ...
... expression , we don't know any better models for manly courage , good sense , and feeling , and they are as well written as they are thought . - There are the works of another man , one of the great- est , not only of our , but of any ...
Page 128
... expression , and his love of being loved , he would have most desired , in any one speaking of him after he was gone . He would , I doubt not , say , as one said to a great painter , on looking at his portrait , " It is certainly like ...
... expression , and his love of being loved , he would have most desired , in any one speaking of him after he was gone . He would , I doubt not , say , as one said to a great painter , on looking at his portrait , " It is certainly like ...
Page 143
... expressing every kind of thought in the same , sometimes plaguily douce tone ; a great power of quiet and telling sarcasm , large capacity of listening to and of enjoying other men's talk , however small . My father — tall , slim ...
... expressing every kind of thought in the same , sometimes plaguily douce tone ; a great power of quiet and telling sarcasm , large capacity of listening to and of enjoying other men's talk , however small . My father — tall , slim ...
Page 156
... expression of his affection was more like the shock of a Leyden jar , than the continuous current of a galvanic circle . There was , as I have said , a permanent chill given by my mother's death , to what may be called the outer surface ...
... expression of his affection was more like the shock of a Leyden jar , than the continuous current of a galvanic circle . There was , as I have said , a permanent chill given by my mother's death , to what may be called the outer surface ...
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Page 439 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page 210 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked ; that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it ; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 325 - But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way ! Some...
Page 411 - And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Page 195 - They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear...
Page 203 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 210 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Page 283 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Page 203 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
Page 175 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.