Spare Hours, by John BrownHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 458 pàgines |
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Pàgina 15
... death , when he was of great age and knew he was dying ; there was no levity in his manner , or thought- lessness about his state ; he was kind , and shrewd as ever ; but how he flashed out with utter merrinient when he got hold of a ...
... death , when he was of great age and knew he was dying ; there was no levity in his manner , or thought- lessness about his state ; he was kind , and shrewd as ever ; but how he flashed out with utter merrinient when he got hold of a ...
Pàgina 16
... death of him to whom I owe my life . He had been dying for months , but he and I hoped to have got and to have given into his hands a copy of these Hora , the correc tion of which had often whiled away his long hours of languor and pain ...
... death of him to whom I owe my life . He had been dying for months , but he and I hoped to have got and to have given into his hands a copy of these Hora , the correc tion of which had often whiled away his long hours of languor and pain ...
Pàgina 17
... death . I leave him now with a portrait of his spiritual lineaments , by Dr. Cairns , --- which is to them what a painting by Velasquez and Da Vinci combined would have been to his bodily presence . " As he was of the Pauline type of ...
... death . I leave him now with a portrait of his spiritual lineaments , by Dr. Cairns , --- which is to them what a painting by Velasquez and Da Vinci combined would have been to his bodily presence . " As he was of the Pauline type of ...
Pàgina 25
... death not far off . " Snuff ! a pinch of snuff ! " observed a calm , highly - dressed young buck , with an eye - glass in his eye . " Snuff , in- deed ! " growled the angry crowd , affronted and glaring . " Snuff ! a pinch of snuff ...
... death not far off . " Snuff ! a pinch of snuff ! " observed a calm , highly - dressed young buck , with an eye - glass in his eye . " Snuff , in- deed ! " growled the angry crowd , affronted and glaring . " Snuff ! a pinch of snuff ...
Pàgina 69
... death - bed . But my first sight of the - Duchess was years before in Broughton Street , when I saw her sitting bolt upright , begging , imploring , with those little rough four leggies , and those yearning , beau- tiful eyes , all the ...
... death - bed . But my first sight of the - Duchess was years before in Broughton Street , when I saw her sitting bolt upright , begging , imploring , with those little rough four leggies , and those yearning , beau- tiful eyes , all the ...
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Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 170 - God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
Pàgina 184 - But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Pàgina 244 - Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play!
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 246 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Pàgina 210 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, "I have no need of thee:" nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you.
Pàgina 364 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow. The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Pàgina 349 - 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...
Pàgina 203 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, "Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.