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... present day had been with his theory " of the preceding evening . 66 66 Mrs. Trafford drove out in her carriage that morning ; she went to Hunt and Roskill's , re- solving to purchase a diamond tiara which she had long wished to possess ...
... present day had been with his theory " of the preceding evening . 66 66 Mrs. Trafford drove out in her carriage that morning ; she went to Hunt and Roskill's , re- solving to purchase a diamond tiara which she had long wished to possess ...
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... present : The poor child is worried . I do not know what I shall do . I have been fighting with him all the morning . I have carried him about ; made his chocolate . I do not know what more I can do . ' Paganini had now finished the ...
... present : The poor child is worried . I do not know what I shall do . I have been fighting with him all the morning . I have carried him about ; made his chocolate . I do not know what more I can do . ' Paganini had now finished the ...
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... present itself . He would be very civil to Forester ; Anastasia was a fine girl ; and with a little management the match might be brought about . Nothing could be better than this dinner ; the girls would be looking their best ; so ...
... present itself . He would be very civil to Forester ; Anastasia was a fine girl ; and with a little management the match might be brought about . Nothing could be better than this dinner ; the girls would be looking their best ; so ...
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... present day who would be willing to give away a hundred pounds unless they were quite convinced that they were , in some way or another , benefitting themselves as well as their friend . " " How could it benefit me ? " asked the go ...
... present day who would be willing to give away a hundred pounds unless they were quite convinced that they were , in some way or another , benefitting themselves as well as their friend . " " How could it benefit me ? " asked the go ...
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... present ornaments of the hall , we are led to regard them ( when in a contemplative mood ) less as illustrations of art than as shadowing in the preponderance of literary over military talent , the spirit of the present period in ...
... present ornaments of the hall , we are led to regard them ( when in a contemplative mood ) less as illustrations of art than as shadowing in the preponderance of literary over military talent , the spirit of the present period in ...
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Page 150 - 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 150 - 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 150 - 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 8 - 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 173 - 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 149 - 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 319 - 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 173 - 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 222 - 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 150 - 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.