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Pàgina 20
... rich , were within every man's reach ; and where life promised to be a mere holiday . Many of the common sailors , especially , declared they desired no better lot than to pass the rest of their lives on this favored island . The ...
... rich , were within every man's reach ; and where life promised to be a mere holiday . Many of the common sailors , especially , declared they desired no better lot than to pass the rest of their lives on this favored island . The ...
Pàgina 23
... rich men , whenever they could transport it to a market . Adieu the delights of the island ! They now became flat and insipid . Each pictured to himself the consequence he might now aspire to , in civilized life , could he once get ...
... rich men , whenever they could transport it to a market . Adieu the delights of the island ! They now became flat and insipid . Each pictured to himself the consequence he might now aspire to , in civilized life , could he once get ...
Pàgina 36
... rich and gay , Where we whisper our loves in myrtle groves , And wile the time away ; And when ennui , like a sable owl , O'ershadows me in air , I fill my goblet to the brim , And I drown the bird of care . Drink , drink , and die ...
... rich and gay , Where we whisper our loves in myrtle groves , And wile the time away ; And when ennui , like a sable owl , O'ershadows me in air , I fill my goblet to the brim , And I drown the bird of care . Drink , drink , and die ...
Pàgina 45
... rich , the husband of an affectionate wife , and the happy father of a family ; blessings which I have obtained , by having been the obedient instrument of the most cruel revenge . A passion which has caused the ruin and degradation of ...
... rich , the husband of an affectionate wife , and the happy father of a family ; blessings which I have obtained , by having been the obedient instrument of the most cruel revenge . A passion which has caused the ruin and degradation of ...
Pàgina 48
... rich Marquis de Ruperou , one of the principal proprietors of the mines of Dauphiny . It was under this title , that presented myself to the old picture - dealer , as an amateur desirous to gratify his taste , and careless at what cost ...
... rich Marquis de Ruperou , one of the principal proprietors of the mines of Dauphiny . It was under this title , that presented myself to the old picture - dealer , as an amateur desirous to gratify his taste , and careless at what cost ...
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Pàgina 365 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
Pàgina 20 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, — but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty, — Seb.
Pàgina 145 - With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Pàgina 176 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Pàgina 317 - How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone ; When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity, — Fresh as if day again were born, Again upon the lap of morn...
Pàgina 257 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Pàgina 16 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Pàgina 20 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Pàgina 407 - Secondly, The other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds; which...
Pàgina 10 - I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.