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... covering his still blacker hair ; a yellow handkerchief tied carelessly about his neck , a chocolate - coloured jacket , hanging loose over his shoulders . On his knees he held his boy- the little Achilles - a child of four years of age ...
... covering his still blacker hair ; a yellow handkerchief tied carelessly about his neck , a chocolate - coloured jacket , hanging loose over his shoulders . On his knees he held his boy- the little Achilles - a child of four years of age ...
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... covered her occasional lapses in the elaborate duet which they executed toge ther in the most admirable manner ; and even- tually it was discovered that Mr. Forester was also a musician , when Miss Stapleton's good offices were once ...
... covered her occasional lapses in the elaborate duet which they executed toge ther in the most admirable manner ; and even- tually it was discovered that Mr. Forester was also a musician , when Miss Stapleton's good offices were once ...
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... covered with a fine short herbage like a velvet carpet , from whence our little plant upsprung with its fel- lows , gemming the turf , and sprinkling it over with its pearly flowers . CORNER . neighbouring village would glance out from ...
... covered with a fine short herbage like a velvet carpet , from whence our little plant upsprung with its fel- lows , gemming the turf , and sprinkling it over with its pearly flowers . CORNER . neighbouring village would glance out from ...
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... covered with button - hole stitch . A single spot of English lace , on eight threads , is worked in every scallop . The grounding , except that round the neck , is in Raleigh bars , worked in No. 100 Mecklen- burgh . " The spotted lace ...
... covered with button - hole stitch . A single spot of English lace , on eight threads , is worked in every scallop . The grounding , except that round the neck , is in Raleigh bars , worked in No. 100 Mecklen- burgh . " The spotted lace ...
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... covered with new mould ; and now he laid his axe on his shoulder and laughed , pleased with his work , under the shade of the saved tree ; then turned to the forest to cut more staves . But the Dryad called to him , in a lovely , silver ...
... covered with new mould ; and now he laid his axe on his shoulder and laughed , pleased with his work , under the shade of the saved tree ; then turned to the forest to cut more staves . But the Dryad called to him , in a lovely , silver ...
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Page 148 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 148 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 148 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 6 - Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Page 171 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days...
Page 147 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Page 317 - He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the Doctor did not much like the project 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.
Page 171 - And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells.
Page 220 - Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and -with songs, with tabret and with harp...
Page 148 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this — That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation; we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.