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... lives , and moves , and has his being in cloth . " It would have been malicious to have said to either of them what Martinus Scriblerus said to the gentleman at court , " Take off your artificial charms , sir , and you will find ...
... lives , and moves , and has his being in cloth . " It would have been malicious to have said to either of them what Martinus Scriblerus said to the gentleman at court , " Take off your artificial charms , sir , and you will find ...
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... lives at Corvo , and the priest is the only human being there who submits to such tram- mels , and his antique buckled shoes were ... live in one village . The cottages are built of stone , VILLAGE OF CORVO . 63 and stand behind low stone.
... lives at Corvo , and the priest is the only human being there who submits to such tram- mels , and his antique buckled shoes were ... live in one village . The cottages are built of stone , VILLAGE OF CORVO . 63 and stand behind low stone.
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... lives , which they are never likely to hazard by any slap - dash temerity . They are also skilful boatmen ; but , when there is actual danger , the clamour they make is enough to banish all your confidence in them . CHAPTER VII . Τῇ περ ...
... lives , which they are never likely to hazard by any slap - dash temerity . They are also skilful boatmen ; but , when there is actual danger , the clamour they make is enough to banish all your confidence in them . CHAPTER VII . Τῇ περ ...
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... live on the simplest food ( chiefly vegetable , with fresh fish ) , who are temperate , and only drink unadulte- rated and wholesome wines , and whose diseases are very little interfered with by medical art . The annual mortality is ...
... live on the simplest food ( chiefly vegetable , with fresh fish ) , who are temperate , and only drink unadulte- rated and wholesome wines , and whose diseases are very little interfered with by medical art . The annual mortality is ...
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... live in this district , and is rarely consulted by those at a distance until all domestic remedies have been exhausted , and the disease is become incurable . Besides this , the population consists almost wholly of poor , amongst which ...
... live in this district , and is rarely consulted by those at a distance until all domestic remedies have been exhausted , and the disease is become incurable . Besides this , the population consists almost wholly of poor , amongst which ...
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Page 304 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Page 304 - A land of beauty, virtue, valour, truth, Time-tutored age, and love-exalted youth. The wandering mariner, whose eye explores The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores, Views not a realm so bountiful and fair, Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air ; In every clime the magnet...
Page 135 - I chanced to espy Among the mountains ; never one like this ; So lonesome, and so perfectly secure; Not melancholy ; no, for it is green, And bright, and fertile, furnished in itself With the few needful things that life requires. In rugged arms how softly does it lie, How tenderly protected...
Page 197 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace : Even so my sun one early morn did shine With...
Page 225 - The food of hope Is meditated action ; robbed of this Her sole support, she languishes and dies. We perish also ; for we live by hope And by desire ; we see by the glad light And breathe the sweet air of futurity ; And so we live, or else we have no life.
Page 15 - There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea. And look at the broad-faced sun, how he smiles On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray, On the leaping waters and gay young isles ; Ay, look, and he'll smile thy gloom away.
Page 263 - Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Page 193 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 341 - Winter season does of our own. The only advantage of Italy then is, that your penance is shorter than it would be in England ; for I repeat, that during the time it lasts, Winter is more severely felt here, than at Sidmouth, where I would even recommend an Italian invalid to repair, from November till February ; — if he could possess himself of Fortunatus's cap, to remove the difficulties of the journey.