Miscellanies...J.R. Osgood & Company, 1873 - 592 pages |
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... mean , curiously jolly ; kindly and good - natured in secret -a tender- hearted knave , not a venomous lick- spittle ... means of quieting the divisions subsisting in his Majes- * 1856 . ty's colonies , plantations , and posses- sions in ...
... mean , curiously jolly ; kindly and good - natured in secret -a tender- hearted knave , not a venomous lick- spittle ... means of quieting the divisions subsisting in his Majes- * 1856 . ty's colonies , plantations , and posses- sions in ...
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... mean as well as heroic . There was no lie we would not believe ; no charge of crime which our furious prejudices would not credit . I thought at one time of making a col- lection of the lies which the French had written against us , and ...
... mean as well as heroic . There was no lie we would not believe ; no charge of crime which our furious prejudices would not credit . I thought at one time of making a col- lection of the lies which the French had written against us , and ...
Page 54
... mean and trivial , and they characterize him . The great war of empires and giants goes on . Day by day victories are won and lost by the brave . Torn , smoky flags and battered eagles are wrenched from the heroic enemy and laid at his ...
... mean and trivial , and they characterize him . The great war of empires and giants goes on . Day by day victories are won and lost by the brave . Torn , smoky flags and battered eagles are wrenched from the heroic enemy and laid at his ...
Page 62
... means , bravely faithful to the calling which he had chosen , refusing to turn from his path for popular praise or princes ' favor ; -I mean Robert Southey . We have left his old political landmarks miles and miles behind ; we protest ...
... means , bravely faithful to the calling which he had chosen , refusing to turn from his path for popular praise or princes ' favor ; -I mean Robert Southey . We have left his old political landmarks miles and miles behind ; we protest ...
Page 69
... means and ability he comments on all the ordinary actions and pas sions of life almost . He takes upon himself to be the week - day preacher , so to speak . Accordingly , as he finds , and speaks , and feels the truth best , we regard ...
... means and ability he comments on all the ordinary actions and pas sions of life almost . He takes upon himself to be the week - day preacher , so to speak . Accordingly , as he finds , and speaks , and feels the truth best , we regard ...
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Page 48 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 149 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 82 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Page 194 - Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew — I still had hopes — my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last.
Page 111 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 149 - Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise: — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers' load, On wings of winds came flying...
Page 84 - At ninety they lose their teeth and hair, they have at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever they can get, without relish or appetite. The diseases they were subject to still continue without increasing or diminishing. In talking they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations.
Page 142 - As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing. When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. We showed it to Congreve ; who, after reading it over, said, it would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly.
Page 109 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 188 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.