Knight's Penny Magazine, Volumes 1-2Charles Knight, 1846 - Civilization |
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... heard from far , And thy son is at hand , Old Year , With no healing balm for a sick world's care . He is gone - the crazy Old Year is gone ; In silence he has died . In silence the jocund young Year is born ; He is floating on Time's ...
... heard from far , And thy son is at hand , Old Year , With no healing balm for a sick world's care . He is gone - the crazy Old Year is gone ; In silence he has died . In silence the jocund young Year is born ; He is floating on Time's ...
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... heard a great deal of the ruin that is to ensue from the vast amount of new railway enterprise . Without reference to the mere projects of 1845 , which would appear upon the face of them to be carried far beyond the point of a safe ...
... heard a great deal of the ruin that is to ensue from the vast amount of new railway enterprise . Without reference to the mere projects of 1845 , which would appear upon the face of them to be carried far beyond the point of a safe ...
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... heard his moan Amidst the bubble play Of premium ever gay ; Nor did his stern laws then the brokers own , But iron laws , to fill the chest With golden heaps - THAT'S LAWFUL WHICH PAYS BEST . THE CARICATURIST'S PORTRAIT GALLERY . WE ...
... heard his moan Amidst the bubble play Of premium ever gay ; Nor did his stern laws then the brokers own , But iron laws , to fill the chest With golden heaps - THAT'S LAWFUL WHICH PAYS BEST . THE CARICATURIST'S PORTRAIT GALLERY . WE ...
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... heard the word often enough from the father's mouth ; and Peter experi- enced the pleasure , before Klaus was nine years old , of hearing him called by all the village , old and young , Klaus Thorough , and the people of Dimmels- husen ...
... heard the word often enough from the father's mouth ; and Peter experi- enced the pleasure , before Klaus was nine years old , of hearing him called by all the village , old and young , Klaus Thorough , and the people of Dimmels- husen ...
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... heard , thought and dreamt , of nothing but witches and wizards , dragons and giants , enchanted princesses and magic castles . Thus matters proceeded with Valentine and his little auditors till the approach of the holy festival of ...
... heard , thought and dreamt , of nothing but witches and wizards , dragons and giants , enchanted princesses and magic castles . Thus matters proceeded with Valentine and his little auditors till the approach of the holy festival of ...
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Page 226 - 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.
Page 92 - I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret.
Page 254 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Page 224 - When you kissed your lily hands to your lemans today; And to-morrow shall the fox, from her chambers in the rocks, Lead forth her tawny cubs to howl above the prey. Where be your tongues that late...
Page 249 - Whep he saw a gasping knight lie there, With a gash beneath his clotted hair, And a hump upon his shoulder. And the loyal churchman strove in vain . To mutter a Pater...
Page 19 - I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, — that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments, as we have seen in our time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities."* 4.
Page 206 - O Printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind! That lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal, as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus; and the serpent's teeth, which he sowed, were nothing else but the letters which he invented.
Page 225 - Some books also may be read by deputy and extracts made of them by others but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books else distilled books are like common distilled waters flashy things.
Page 249 - And the Priest was ready to vomit, When he hauled out a gentleman, fine and fat, With a belly as big as a brimming vat, And a nose as red as a comet. " A capital stew," the Fisherman said,
Page 83 - Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul!