Every Saturday

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Houghton, 1874

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Seite 231 - Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
Seite 190 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Seite 41 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Seite 319 - Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that' Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods'?
Seite 12 - London, — has become hateful to me, because of the misery that I know of, and see signs of where I know it not, which no imagination can interpret too bitterly.
Seite 63 - ... now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe or string, or any such thing ; and now I have writ, in a rhyming fit, what will make you dance, and as you advance,, will keep you still though against your will, dancing away, alert and gay, till you come to an end of what I have...
Seite 63 - ... play, of the modern day ; and though she assume a borrowed plume, and now and then wear a tittering air, 'tis only her plan to catch, if she can, the giddy and gay, as they go that way, by a production, on a new construction ; she has baited her trap, in hopes to snap all that may come, with a sugar plum.
Seite 314 - With a sweet emotion ; Nothing in the world is single ; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle— Why not I with thine...
Seite 69 - Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five: For howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five. He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five; And all who wisely wish to wive Must look on Thrale at thirty-five.
Seite 128 - Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe...

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