Spare Hours, by John BrownHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 458 pàgines |
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Pàgina 5
... genius to the composition of his papers . Dogs he loves with an enthusiasm to be found nowhere else in canine litera- ture . He knows intimately all a cur means when he winks his eye or wags his tail , so that the whole barking race ...
... genius to the composition of his papers . Dogs he loves with an enthusiasm to be found nowhere else in canine litera- ture . He knows intimately all a cur means when he winks his eye or wags his tail , so that the whole barking race ...
Pàgina 14
... genius , but I know none better or finer than these lines by my friend John Hunter of Craigcrook . They are too little known , and no one will be anything but pleased to read them , except their author . The third line might have been ...
... genius , but I know none better or finer than these lines by my friend John Hunter of Craigcrook . They are too little known , and no one will be anything but pleased to read them , except their author . The third line might have been ...
Pàgina 15
... genius . James was stand- ing behind his chair , ready and sulky . His master told his young friends that the bladder he had . filled with the gas must , on principle , ascend ; but that they would see practically if it did , and he cut ...
... genius . James was stand- ing behind his chair , ready and sulky . His master told his young friends that the bladder he had . filled with the gas must , on principle , ascend ; but that they would see practically if it did , and he cut ...
Pàgina 45
... genius ? and what is sense ? Genius is a peculiar native aptitude , or tendency , to any one calling or pursuit over all others . A man may have a genius for governing , for killing , or for curing the greatest number of men , and in ...
... genius ? and what is sense ? Genius is a peculiar native aptitude , or tendency , to any one calling or pursuit over all others . A man may have a genius for governing , for killing , or for curing the greatest number of men , and in ...
Pàgina 46
... genius , and nothing else , is not enough , even for a painter ; he must likewise have sense ; and what is sense ? Sense drives , ― or ought to drive , the coach ; sense regulates , combines , restrains , commands , all the rest even ...
... genius , and nothing else , is not enough , even for a painter ; he must likewise have sense ; and what is sense ? Sense drives , ― or ought to drive , the coach ; sense regulates , combines , restrains , commands , all the rest even ...
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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.