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... heard of the existence of misers . " " In my juvenile days I have read of such beings , " said Stanford , " but I thought that the race had become completely extinct ; I am sorry to hear that my poor old friend ( for a friend I really ...
... heard of the existence of misers . " " In my juvenile days I have read of such beings , " said Stanford , " but I thought that the race had become completely extinct ; I am sorry to hear that my poor old friend ( for a friend I really ...
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... heard and saw . They alighted , secured their horses , and followed Cromwell into the wood : they had penetrated but a short way , when Lindsay , turning deadly pale , felt his blood run cold , and an unac- countable horror seize him ...
... heard and saw . They alighted , secured their horses , and followed Cromwell into the wood : they had penetrated but a short way , when Lindsay , turning deadly pale , felt his blood run cold , and an unac- countable horror seize him ...
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... heard the music of this world . The servant believed in a mysterious understanding between the violin and his master ; he in fact regarded it as Paga- nini's familiar , and declared that he often heard them converse together ; though he ...
... heard the music of this world . The servant believed in a mysterious understanding between the violin and his master ; he in fact regarded it as Paga- nini's familiar , and declared that he often heard them converse together ; though he ...
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... heard of again . The bride nearly reached her ninetieth year ; but no one came to claim her ! a son of Franciso de la Vega had disappeared , about five years before , and was supposed to have been drowned in the river , at Bilboa . When ...
... heard of again . The bride nearly reached her ninetieth year ; but no one came to claim her ! a son of Franciso de la Vega had disappeared , about five years before , and was supposed to have been drowned in the river , at Bilboa . When ...
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... heard the true reason why this man availed himself on our account of the prin- ciple , " Hereticis non est servanda fides ! " He had sent either a spy to our former re- sidence , or had himself passed by and had found out that we had ...
... heard the true reason why this man availed himself on our account of the prin- ciple , " Hereticis non est servanda fides ! " He had sent either a spy to our former re- sidence , or had himself passed by and had found out that we had ...
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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.