Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 15Charles Dudley Warner International Society, 1896 - Literature |
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... Head of the March ( With the Procession ' ) SARAH MARGARET FULLER ( Marchioness Ossoli ) 1810-1850 George Sand ( Memoirs ' ) PAGE 6101 6119 Americans Abroad in Europe ( At Home and Abroad ' ) A Character Sketch of Carlyle ( Memoirs ...
... Head of the March ( With the Procession ' ) SARAH MARGARET FULLER ( Marchioness Ossoli ) 1810-1850 George Sand ( Memoirs ' ) PAGE 6101 6119 Americans Abroad in Europe ( At Home and Abroad ' ) A Character Sketch of Carlyle ( Memoirs ...
Page 5859
... head unto thy feet . As many times I greet thee even As there are stars in yonder heaven , As there shall blossom flowers gay , From Easter to St. Michael's day ! 1 These competitive verses for the dance and the garland were , as we ...
... head unto thy feet . As many times I greet thee even As there are stars in yonder heaven , As there shall blossom flowers gay , From Easter to St. Michael's day ! 1 These competitive verses for the dance and the garland were , as we ...
Page 5865
... head is lying , There rests a golden shrine ; And in it lies , locked hard and fast , This fresh young heart of mine : Oh would to God I had the key , - I'd throw it in the Rhine ; What place on earth were more to me , Than with my ...
... head is lying , There rests a golden shrine ; And in it lies , locked hard and fast , This fresh young heart of mine : Oh would to God I had the key , - I'd throw it in the Rhine ; What place on earth were more to me , Than with my ...
Page 5872
... head nor comb come in my hair ; There shall neither coal nor candle - light come in my bower mair ; Nor will I love another one until the day I die , For I never loved a love but one , and he's drowned in the sea . " O haud your tongue ...
... head nor comb come in my hair ; There shall neither coal nor candle - light come in my bower mair ; Nor will I love another one until the day I die , For I never loved a love but one , and he's drowned in the sea . " O haud your tongue ...
Page 5874
... head ? Or wherefore should I kame my hair ? For my true - love has me forsook , And says he'll never love me mair . Now Arthur's Seat shall be my bed , The sheets shall ne'er be fyled by me ; Saint Anton's well shall be my drink , Since ...
... head ? Or wherefore should I kame my hair ? For my true - love has me forsook , And says he'll never love me mair . Now Arthur's Seat shall be my bed , The sheets shall ne'er be fyled by me ; Saint Anton's well shall be my drink , Since ...
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Page 5963 - I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbid myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as certainly...
Page 5959 - I cross'd these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column...
Page 5938 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Page 5950 - I had made of the sense of all ages and nations. However, I resolved to be the better for the echo of it, and though I had at first determined to buy stuff for a new coat, I went away resolved to wear my old one a little longer.
Page 5950 - I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men.
Page 5960 - Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 5957 - We have an English proverb that says, " He that would thrive must ask his wife.
Page 6133 - He studieth his scholars' natures as carefully as they their books; and ranks their dispositions into several forms. And though it may seem difficult for him in a great school to descend to all particulars, yet experienced schoolmasters may quickly make a grammar of boys' natures, and reduce them all — saving some few exceptions — to these general rules : 1.
Page 5947 - Goods, but if you do not take Care, they will prove Evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may for less than they cost; but if you have no Occasion for them, they must be dear to you. Remember what Poor Richard says, Buy what thou hast no Need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
Page 6247 - How can they say that nature Has nothing made in vain; Why then beneath the water Should hideous rocks remain? No eyes the rocks discover, That lurk beneath the deep, To wreck the wand'ring lover, And leave the maid to weep.