The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes, Volume 19Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl Clarke Company, limited, 1899 - Anthologies |
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Page 102 - say what art thou, when no more thou'rt thee. Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 291 - he threw the Wash about, On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton, his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. " Stop, stop, John Gil pin! — Here's the house !
Page 336 - Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more, My Mary! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfill The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now seconds not thy will, My Mary! But well thou
Page 68 - for, as Poor Richard says, The second vice is lying, the first is running into debt; and again, to the same purpose, lying rides upon debt's back; whereas a free-born Englishman ought not to be ashamed or afraid to see or speak to any man living. But poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue.
Page 61 - such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, ' It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. i
Page 288 - I am a linen draper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the calender Will lend his horse to go." Quoth Mrs. Gilpin, — "That's well said; And for that wine is dear, We will be furnished with our own, Which is both bright and clear." John Gilpin kissed his loving wife; O'erjoyed was he to find, That, though
Page 102 - BY MRS. BARBAULD. LIFE ! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part; And when or how or where we met, I own to me's a secret yet. But this I know: when thou art fled, Where'er they lay these limbs, this head, No clod so valueless shall be As all that then remains of me.
Page 65 - own affairs with our own eyes, and not trust too much to others; for, as Poor Richard says — I never saw an oft-removed tree Nor yet an oft-removed family That throve so well as those that settled be. And again, Three removes are
Page 67 - thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, 'Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And 'tis as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. Great estates may venture more,
Page 64 - break for want of stock; whereas industry gives comfort, and plenty, and respect. Fly pleasures, and they'll follow you. The diligent spinner has a large shift; and — Now I have a sheep and a cow, Everybody bids me good morrow. All which is well said by Poor Richard. But with our industry we must likewise be steady, settled, and careful, and