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... face , so , in a picture , there is to the quick feeling and quick discrimination , which both together constitute taste , always the same sure indications of the country , the period , or the school which produced it . And there is ...
... face , so , in a picture , there is to the quick feeling and quick discrimination , which both together constitute taste , always the same sure indications of the country , the period , or the school which produced it . And there is ...
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... face of morn ; Along the fine cerulean sky , The fleecy clouds , successive fly , While bright prismatic beams their shadowy folds adorn . And hark ! the thatcher has begun His whistle on the eaves , And oft the hedger's bill is heard ...
... face of morn ; Along the fine cerulean sky , The fleecy clouds , successive fly , While bright prismatic beams their shadowy folds adorn . And hark ! the thatcher has begun His whistle on the eaves , And oft the hedger's bill is heard ...
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... THERE is a man up country that turns so pale when he is frightened , that people can scrape the white - wash from his face . " 6 ANCIENT POETRY . SPEAKING of goose , " PROSE AND POETRY . 29 HOW MR. SMITHSON WAS HOOKED. ...
... THERE is a man up country that turns so pale when he is frightened , that people can scrape the white - wash from his face . " 6 ANCIENT POETRY . SPEAKING of goose , " PROSE AND POETRY . 29 HOW MR. SMITHSON WAS HOOKED. ...
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... face in the lap of a lady . My attention , I say , was thus engrossed , when pooh ! into the midst of the lillipution throng rushed a human avalanche , in the shape of a full grown- a very full grown - couple of polkists ! The cavalier ...
... face in the lap of a lady . My attention , I say , was thus engrossed , when pooh ! into the midst of the lillipution throng rushed a human avalanche , in the shape of a full grown- a very full grown - couple of polkists ! The cavalier ...
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... face . One of the many forms under which this fact everywhere inces- santly solicits our attention , has been pointed out . I believe that in democratic as well as in aristocratic countries there will be landowners and tenants : but the ...
... face . One of the many forms under which this fact everywhere inces- santly solicits our attention , has been pointed out . I believe that in democratic as well as in aristocratic countries there will be landowners and tenants : but the ...
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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.