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... things depended on For- tune , and nothing on ourselves . I am not aware of any one thought or action worthy of being called good , either to myself or others , which is not to be attributed to the good goddess , " Fortune . " — Byron's ...
... things depended on For- tune , and nothing on ourselves . I am not aware of any one thought or action worthy of being called good , either to myself or others , which is not to be attributed to the good goddess , " Fortune . " — Byron's ...
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... thing . It was not his part , he thought , to stand in the way of the caprice of fortune . The rain in a few minutes drenched him to the skin , as he walked doggedly forward , and he felt a most uncomfortable chill as the water trickled ...
... thing . It was not his part , he thought , to stand in the way of the caprice of fortune . The rain in a few minutes drenched him to the skin , as he walked doggedly forward , and he felt a most uncomfortable chill as the water trickled ...
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... thing . Yet think , were that record of our luxury alone transmitted to a simpler age , what a key it would afford to all the marvels of luxurious life in the nineteenth century ! How care- fully it is built for convenience , how skil ...
... thing . Yet think , were that record of our luxury alone transmitted to a simpler age , what a key it would afford to all the marvels of luxurious life in the nineteenth century ! How care- fully it is built for convenience , how skil ...
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... thing except his hope , fer- vently prayed that it might be fulfilled that night . If that eternal book , in which all the prayers of mankind are recorded , were laid open to our view , what a commentary would be found there on human ...
... thing except his hope , fer- vently prayed that it might be fulfilled that night . If that eternal book , in which all the prayers of mankind are recorded , were laid open to our view , what a commentary would be found there on human ...
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... things with which it surrounds itself . Unconsciously a man imparts to his dwelling the prevailing sentiment of his mind , so that his thoughts and tastes may be read in the style of his dwelling , the adornments of his rooms , the ...
... things with which it surrounds itself . Unconsciously a man imparts to his dwelling the prevailing sentiment of his mind , so that his thoughts and tastes may be read in the style of his dwelling , the adornments of his rooms , the ...
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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.