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... give me a hint how to handle the reins . This CAPRICORN seems a wild sort of a beast to drive , and he is setting his head down as if he was going to butt with his horns . " 66 “ My son , ” said the senior , " it would be useless for me ...
... give me a hint how to handle the reins . This CAPRICORN seems a wild sort of a beast to drive , and he is setting his head down as if he was going to butt with his horns . " 66 “ My son , ” said the senior , " it would be useless for me ...
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... give either of your pretty sisters there a chance . Mr. Gideon , your humble servant ; have you made much lee - way against the stream of time since last I had the pleasure of seeing you ? How much under fifty may you be by this ...
... give either of your pretty sisters there a chance . Mr. Gideon , your humble servant ; have you made much lee - way against the stream of time since last I had the pleasure of seeing you ? How much under fifty may you be by this ...
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... give your cousin Jacob , sir ? Why , just £ 50 in hands , and a bond for £ 50 more , to be paid upon this day , provided he fulfilled the conditions you imposed upon him . Well , sir , he has fulfilled the conditions ; he is still in ...
... give your cousin Jacob , sir ? Why , just £ 50 in hands , and a bond for £ 50 more , to be paid upon this day , provided he fulfilled the conditions you imposed upon him . Well , sir , he has fulfilled the conditions ; he is still in ...
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... give no account of why she had done this thing . She seemed not to understand the agony her absence had produced ; nor did her mind at all go into the conse- quences of her flight . She appeared to have but the one simple idea , and the ...
... give no account of why she had done this thing . She seemed not to understand the agony her absence had produced ; nor did her mind at all go into the conse- quences of her flight . She appeared to have but the one simple idea , and the ...
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... gives the order ; and she reports on the merits and qualifi . cations of her subjects during the day . Young as she ... give themselves airs accordingly , and refuse all offers under a sum too high for the generality of people . Common ...
... gives the order ; and she reports on the merits and qualifi . cations of her subjects during the day . Young as she ... give themselves airs accordingly , and refuse all offers under a sum too high for the generality of people . Common ...
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Page 473 - The scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon, consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Page 467 - Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 572 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 296 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Page 97 - ... there is no border-land with him. You cannot hover with him upon the confines of truth, or wander in the maze of a probable argument. He always keeps the path. You cannot make excursions with him, for he sets you right. His taste never fluctuates. His morality never abates. He cannot compromise, or understand middle actions. There can be but a right and a wrong. His conversation is as a book. His affirmations have the sanctity of an oath. You must speak upon the square with him. He stops a metaphor...
Page 371 - But above all let us not be influenced by any angry feelings so far as to shut our eyes to the perception of what is really excellent and amiable in the English character. We are a young people, necessarily an imitative one, and must take our examples and models in a great degree from the existing nations of Europe. There is no country more worthy of our study than England.
Page 196 - A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again: The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.
Page 319 - Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
Page 97 - I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. They cannot like me — and in truth, I never knew one of that nation who attempted to do it.
Page 553 - ... to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate, in glorious and lofty hymns, the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...