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... true story of a similar descrip- tion , " said Harville , " in Brown's Lays and Legends of the East . ' An Arab had been two days in the desert , without food ; coming to a well where caravans were accustomed to halt , he perceived a ...
... true story of a similar descrip- tion , " said Harville , " in Brown's Lays and Legends of the East . ' An Arab had been two days in the desert , without food ; coming to a well where caravans were accustomed to halt , he perceived a ...
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... True , but she lacked diamonds ; and although she had said that " gold could do nothing but procure us the vanities of life which we should be much better without , " she made an exception in favour of the " one particular vanity " on ...
... True , but she lacked diamonds ; and although she had said that " gold could do nothing but procure us the vanities of life which we should be much better without , " she made an exception in favour of the " one particular vanity " on ...
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... true woman's breast . " And the result of this judicious mode of proceeding was , that poor old Jervis was electrified by the ap- pearance of Mrs. Atkins in his attic , bearing tea and toast in her hands , wearing a winning smile on her ...
... true woman's breast . " And the result of this judicious mode of proceeding was , that poor old Jervis was electrified by the ap- pearance of Mrs. Atkins in his attic , bearing tea and toast in her hands , wearing a winning smile on her ...
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... true ; So near it hit the fugitive he could refrain no more , But forward rush'd , with pallid face , and bow'd the Count before . " Why wert thou hid ? " with wrathful brow , the latter to him cried ; " Most rig'rous Sire , at sight of ...
... true ; So near it hit the fugitive he could refrain no more , But forward rush'd , with pallid face , and bow'd the Count before . " Why wert thou hid ? " with wrathful brow , the latter to him cried ; " Most rig'rous Sire , at sight of ...
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... true or not , there is nothing exaggerated so as to throw the slightest doubt on its probability : the faci- lity with which he multiplied copies of the Bible , " Now , Lindsay , I long for the onset - the battle by the introduction of ...
... true or not , there is nothing exaggerated so as to throw the slightest doubt on its probability : the faci- lity with which he multiplied copies of the Bible , " Now , Lindsay , I long for the onset - the battle by the introduction of ...
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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.