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... expression , says , " confusion and perplexity are , in writing , indeed without excuse , because any one may , if he pleases , know whether he understands or sees through what he is about , and it is unpardonable in a man to lay his ...
... expression , says , " confusion and perplexity are , in writing , indeed without excuse , because any one may , if he pleases , know whether he understands or sees through what he is about , and it is unpardonable in a man to lay his ...
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... expression , we don't know any better models for manly courage , good sense , and feeling , and they are as well written as they are thought . There are the works of another man , one of the great- est , not only of our , but of any ...
... expression , we don't know any better models for manly courage , good sense , and feeling , and they are as well written as they are thought . There are the works of another man , one of the great- est , not only of our , but of any ...
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... expression , and his love of being loved , he would have most desired , in any one speaking of him after he was gone . He would , I doubt not , say , as one said to a great painter , on looking at his portrait , " It is certainly like ...
... expression , and his love of being loved , he would have most desired , in any one speaking of him after he was gone . He would , I doubt not , say , as one said to a great painter , on looking at his portrait , " It is certainly like ...
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... expressing every kind of thought in the same , sometimes plaguily douce tone ; a great power of quiet and telling sarcasm , large capacity of listening to and of enjoying other men's talk , however small . My father tall , slim , agile ...
... expressing every kind of thought in the same , sometimes plaguily douce tone ; a great power of quiet and telling sarcasm , large capacity of listening to and of enjoying other men's talk , however small . My father tall , slim , agile ...
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... expression of his affection was more like the shock of a Leyden jar , than the continuous current of a galvanic circle . There was , as I have said , a permanent chill given by my mother's death , to what may be called the outer surface ...
... expression of his affection was more like the shock of a Leyden jar , than the continuous current of a galvanic circle . There was , as I have said , a permanent chill given by my mother's death , to what may be called the outer surface ...
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Seite 210 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked ; that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it ; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Seite 195 - They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear...
Seite 349 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Seite 327 - I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled...
Seite 244 - O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still...
Seite 210 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Seite 432 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Seite 283 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Seite 291 - Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace : Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet ; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.
Seite 203 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own...