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... eye , All hearts bless her as she passes by . IDLENESS is the bane of body and mind , the nurse of naughti- ness , the step - mother of discipline , the chief author of all mischief , one of the seven deadly sins , the cushion upon ...
... eye , All hearts bless her as she passes by . IDLENESS is the bane of body and mind , the nurse of naughti- ness , the step - mother of discipline , the chief author of all mischief , one of the seven deadly sins , the cushion upon ...
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... eyes . Sometimes one laid his hand upon another's head , as if invoking a blessing ; then , again , ex- tending a naked arm , with the hand flat , made slight motions in the air . Sometimes the women , in double files , with their arms ...
... eyes . Sometimes one laid his hand upon another's head , as if invoking a blessing ; then , again , ex- tending a naked arm , with the hand flat , made slight motions in the air . Sometimes the women , in double files , with their arms ...
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... eyes ; Still will they cheat in vision fine , Yet never but in fancy shine . Oh , that I were the little wren That shrilly chirps from yonder glen ! Oh , far away I then would rove , To some secluded bushy grove ; There hop and sing ...
... eyes ; Still will they cheat in vision fine , Yet never but in fancy shine . Oh , that I were the little wren That shrilly chirps from yonder glen ! Oh , far away I then would rove , To some secluded bushy grove ; There hop and sing ...
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... eyes the crowd of little bright joyous things , and thinking there was grace in all their movements - grace equally in the perfect dancing of some , and in the bounding disregard of art in others - in their boldness or bashfulness ...
... eyes the crowd of little bright joyous things , and thinking there was grace in all their movements - grace equally in the perfect dancing of some , and in the bounding disregard of art in others - in their boldness or bashfulness ...
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... eye , dim , perhaps , and feeble , yet occasionally sparkling with hope , and confidently looking forward to the near possession of his heavenly inheritance , " to those joys which eye have not seen , nor ear heard , neither hath it ...
... eye , dim , perhaps , and feeble , yet occasionally sparkling with hope , and confidently looking forward to the near possession of his heavenly inheritance , " to those joys which eye have not seen , nor ear heard , neither hath it ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.