Spare Hours, by John BrownHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 458 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... hand , and threatens to hang his reader , if he gives him not his good word . This , with the excitement of friends to his undertaking , and some few apologies for the want of time , books , and the like , are the constant and usual ...
... hand , and threatens to hang his reader , if he gives him not his good word . This , with the excitement of friends to his undertaking , and some few apologies for the want of time , books , and the like , are the constant and usual ...
Pàgina 15
... hand trembling with age and fun , “ Adam's - sun fecit " — it came back upon him and tor him without mercy . Then , his blood being up , he told me a story of his uncle , the great Dr. Black the chemist ; no one will grudge the reading ...
... hand trembling with age and fun , “ Adam's - sun fecit " — it came back upon him and tor him without mercy . Then , his blood being up , he told me a story of his uncle , the great Dr. Black the chemist ; no one will grudge the reading ...
Pàgina 16
... hands a copy of these Hora , the correc tion of which had often whiled away his long hours of languor and pain . God thought otherwise . I shall miss his great knowledge , his loving and keen eye — his ne quid nimis · his sympathy ...
... hands a copy of these Hora , the correc tion of which had often whiled away his long hours of languor and pain . God thought otherwise . I shall miss his great knowledge , his loving and keen eye — his ne quid nimis · his sympathy ...
Pàgina 24
... hands freely upon the men , as so many " brutes ; " it is a crowd annular , compact , and mo- bile ; a crowd centripetal , having its eyes and its heads all bent downwards and inwards , to one common focus . Well , Bob and I are up ...
... hands freely upon the men , as so many " brutes ; " it is a crowd annular , compact , and mo- bile ; a crowd centripetal , having its eyes and its heads all bent downwards and inwards , to one common focus . Well , Bob and I are up ...
Pàgina 25
... hands in his pockets : he is old , gray , brindled , as big as a little Highland bull , and has the Shaksperian dewlaps shaking as he goes . The Chicken makes straight at him , and fastens on his throat . To our astonishment , the great ...
... hands in his pockets : he is old , gray , brindled , as big as a little Highland bull , and has the Shaksperian dewlaps shaking as he goes . The Chicken makes straight at him , and fastens on his throat . To our astonishment , the great ...
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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.