Spare hours v. 1, 1861, Volum 1Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1861 |
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Pàgina 16
... asked than answered . more - This Preface was written , and I had a proof ready for his pencil , when I was summoned to the 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 ...
... asked than answered . more - This Preface was written , and I had a proof ready for his pencil , when I was summoned to the 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 ...
Pàgina 26
... asking us all round , “ Did you ever see the like of this ? " He looked a statue of anger and astonishment , done in Aberdeen granite . We soon had a crowd : the Chicken held on . knife ! " cried Bob ; and a cobbler gave him his knife ...
... asking us all round , “ Did you ever see the like of this ? " He looked a statue of anger and astonishment , done in Aberdeen granite . We soon had a crowd : the Chicken held on . knife ! " cried Bob ; and a cobbler gave him his knife ...
Pàgina 31
... asked why a certain terrier , of singular pluck , was so much more solemn than the other dogs , said , " Oh , Sir , life's full o ' sairiousness to him- he just never can get enuff o ' fechtin ' . " 2 Fuller was , in early life , when a ...
... asked why a certain terrier , of singular pluck , was so much more solemn than the other dogs , said , " Oh , Sir , life's full o ' sairiousness to him- he just never can get enuff o ' fechtin ' . " 2 Fuller was , in early life , when a ...
Pàgina 40
... asked for him next week at the new carrier who got the goodwill of James's business , and was now master of Jess and her cart . " How's Rab ? " He put me off , and said rather rudely , “ What's your business wi ' the dowg ? " I was not ...
... asked for him next week at the new carrier who got the goodwill of James's business , and was now master of Jess and her cart . " How's Rab ? " He put me off , and said rather rudely , “ What's your business wi ' the dowg ? " I was not ...
Pàgina 43
... asked such a question , would have either set about detailing the mechanical composition of such and such colors , in such and such proportions , rubbed up so and so ; or perhaps they would ( and so much the better , but not the best ) ...
... asked such a question , would have either set about detailing the mechanical composition of such and such colors , in such and such proportions , rubbed up so and so ; or perhaps they would ( and so much the better , but not the best ) ...
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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.
Pàgina 411 - And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 358 - To sit the midst of Trinal Unity, He laid aside ; and here with us to be, Forsook the courts of everlasting day, And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clay.
Pàgina 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?
Pàgina 244 - The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination...
Pàgina 325 - But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way ! Some...
Pàgina 439 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Pàgina 315 - ... the hereditary failing of the first parent, yet manifest — his voice as yet not broken, but something between a childish treble, and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or prceludium, of a grunt.
Pàgina 330 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know At first sight if the bird be flown; But what fair dell or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown.