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... English , made themselves burrows in the mud , and lived on roots and sour milk . Over the impeccability of Dutch Will ( in spite of his being , as a Yankee would say , " a whale at green peas ) , or the pleasant foibles of Mary her ...
... English , made themselves burrows in the mud , and lived on roots and sour milk . Over the impeccability of Dutch Will ( in spite of his being , as a Yankee would say , " a whale at green peas ) , or the pleasant foibles of Mary her ...
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... English and honest , impartial criticisms And Mitchil of Belfast , ' Twas he that looked aghast , When they roasted him in effigy by Shannon shore . O the lovely tay was spilt On that day of Ireland's guilt ; [ door ? Says Jack Mitchil ...
... English and honest , impartial criticisms And Mitchil of Belfast , ' Twas he that looked aghast , When they roasted him in effigy by Shannon shore . O the lovely tay was spilt On that day of Ireland's guilt ; [ door ? Says Jack Mitchil ...
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... English contemporaries would have called water . The amount he drank never did more than exhilarate him ; never come . made him unfit for work or for society . Over his wine , then , he sat some hours ; no such thing as dessert was seen ...
... English contemporaries would have called water . The amount he drank never did more than exhilarate him ; never come . made him unfit for work or for society . Over his wine , then , he sat some hours ; no such thing as dessert was seen ...
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... English of the guilt of burning Joan of Arc . He heaps documents upon documents to prove that she was never burned , but that she married happily , and was the fruitful mother of children . Surely we live in a wonderful age ! In ...
... English of the guilt of burning Joan of Arc . He heaps documents upon documents to prove that she was never burned , but that she married happily , and was the fruitful mother of children . Surely we live in a wonderful age ! In ...
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... English makers , Ross , Powell , and Smith ; theoretically , from suggestions made to them by several scientific gentlemen , who have thus added their mite - oftentimes a most important one - to the advancement of the science . The ...
... English makers , Ross , Powell , and Smith ; theoretically , from suggestions made to them by several scientific gentlemen , who have thus added their mite - oftentimes a most important one - to the advancement of the science . The ...
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Page 18 - It was not her time to love ; beside, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little...
Page 18 - I loved you, Evelyn, all the while ! My heart seemed full as it could hold ; There was place and to spare for the frank young smile, And the red young mouth, and the hair's young gold. So, hush, — I will give you this leaf to keep : See, I shut it inside the sweet cold hand ! There, that is our secret : go to sleep ! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
Page 18 - EVELYN HOPE Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead ! Sit and watch by her side an hour. That is her book-shelf, this her bed; She plucked that piece of geranium-flower, Beginning to die too, in the glass; Little has yet been changed, I think : The shutters are shut, no light may pass Save two long rays through the hinge's chink.
Page 230 - But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
Page 19 - A moment after, and hands unseen Were hanging the night around us fast; But we knew that a bar was broken between Life and life: we were mixed at last In spite of the mortal screen.
Page 27 - WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on...
Page 205 - On the whole, we make too much of faults; the details of the business hide the real centre of it. Faults ? The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Page 264 - ANALOGUE." — A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal. " HOMOLOGUE." — The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function f.
Page 17 - Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woe Long ago; Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame Struck them tame; And that glory and that shame alike, the gold Bought and sold.
Page 19 - Be hate that fruit or love that fruit, It forwards the general deed of man, And each of the Many helps to recruit The life of the race by a general plan ; Each living his own, to boot.