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... answered with his whip , and struck him some sharp cuts about the shoulders . There was good blood in the scholar's veins . Irritated by the pain and insult , he threw himself on the horses , grasped their curbs firmly , and with the ...
... answered with his whip , and struck him some sharp cuts about the shoulders . There was good blood in the scholar's veins . Irritated by the pain and insult , he threw himself on the horses , grasped their curbs firmly , and with the ...
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... answered the young man . " My state cannot be worse than it is . I have all to hope from Fortune , and nothing to dread from it . " " Oh ! " returned his companion , with a slight curl of his lip , " Fortune is a deity worshipped under ...
... answered the young man . " My state cannot be worse than it is . I have all to hope from Fortune , and nothing to dread from it . " " Oh ! " returned his companion , with a slight curl of his lip , " Fortune is a deity worshipped under ...
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David Trevena Coulton. abruptness of this question , but he did not hesitate to answer it- " I am classical teacher in a school , without friends , and without hope of advancement . " " Ah ! and you have day - dreams ? When going through ...
David Trevena Coulton. abruptness of this question , but he did not hesitate to answer it- " I am classical teacher in a school , without friends , and without hope of advancement . " " Ah ! and you have day - dreams ? When going through ...
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... answered- " If you are able to release me from a condition I detest , you have only to propose your terms , so that they do not commit me to any criminal or shameful proceeding . " The stranger had marked his hesitation and transient ...
... answered- " If you are able to release me from a condition I detest , you have only to propose your terms , so that they do not commit me to any criminal or shameful proceeding . " The stranger had marked his hesitation and transient ...
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... answered Cavendish firmly , " all ; if , indeed , she really suffers pain on my ac- count . It is impossible that I can ever be more to Miss Laneton than a friend . I thought it was well known that I am vowed to single life . " " Yet ...
... answered Cavendish firmly , " all ; if , indeed , she really suffers pain on my ac- count . It is impossible that I can ever be more to Miss Laneton than a friend . I thought it was well known that I am vowed to single life . " " Yet ...
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Page 194 - Whose ample lawns are not ashamed to feed The milky heifer, and deserving steed; Whose rising forests, not for pride or show, But future buildings, future navies grow : Let his plantations stretch from down to down, First shade a country, and then raise a town.
Page 306 - It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries ' Thus thou must do, if thou have it; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.
Page 89 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 67 - Let not the dark thee cumber ; What though the moon does slumber? The stars of the night Will lend thee their light, Like tapers clear, without number. Then, Julia, let me woo thee, Thus, thus to come unto me ; And when I shall meet Thy silvery feet, My soul I'll pour into thee.
Page 174 - Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Page 228 - ... real reformation is, in many cases, of no avail at all towards preventing the miseries, poverty, sickness, infamy, naturally annexed to folly and extravagance exceeding that degree. There is a certain bound to imprudence and misbehaviour, which being transgressed, there remains no place for repentance in the natural course of things.
Page 13 - MORTAL man, who livest here by toil, Do not complain of this thy hard estate ; That like an emmet thou must ever moil, Is a sad sentence of an ancient date ; And, certes, there is for it reason great ; For, though sometimes it makes thee weep and wail, And curse thy star, and early drudge and late, Withouten that would come a heavier bale, Loose life, unruly passions, and diseases pale.
Page i - Je rends au public ce qu'il m'a prêté ; j'ai emprunté de lui la matière de cet ouvrage : il est juste que, l'ayant achevé avec toute l'attention pour la vérité dont je suis capable, et qu'il mérite de moi, je lui en fasse la restitution.
Page 204 - She was a woman in her freshest age, Of wondrous beauty, and of bounty rare, With goodly grace and comely personage...
Page 256 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.