Spare HoursHoughton, 1861 - 458 pàgines |
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Pàgina 13
... everything had been tried . Her friends were standing round her bed in misery and helplessness . " Try her w a compliment , " said her husband , in a not uncomic despair . She had genuine humor , as well as he ; and as physiologists ...
... everything had been tried . Her friends were standing round her bed in misery and helplessness . " Try her w a compliment , " said her husband , in a not uncomic despair . She had genuine humor , as well as he ; and as physiologists ...
Pàgina 14
... everything in the man , his expressed juice ; wit is but the laugh- ing flower of the intellect or the turn of speech , and is often what we call a " gum - flower , " and looks well when dry . Humor is , in a certain sense , involuntary ...
... everything in the man , his expressed juice ; wit is but the laugh- ing flower of the intellect or the turn of speech , and is often what we call a " gum - flower , " and looks well when dry . Humor is , in a certain sense , involuntary ...
Pàgina 31
... everything in each other . The following day , at noon , the students came in , hurrying up the great stair . At the first land- 1 A Highland game - keeper , when asked why a certain terrier , of singular pluck , was so much more solemn ...
... everything in each other . The following day , at noon , the students came in , hurrying up the great stair . At the first land- 1 A Highland game - keeper , when asked why a certain terrier , of singular pluck , was so much more solemn ...
Pàgina 33
... Everything she got he gave her : he seldom slept ; and often I saw his small shrewd eyes out of the darkness , fixed on her . As before , they spoke little . Rab behaved well , never moving , showing us how meek and gentle he could be ...
... Everything she got he gave her : he seldom slept ; and often I saw his small shrewd eyes out of the darkness , fixed on her . As before , they spoke little . Rab behaved well , never moving , showing us how meek and gentle he could be ...
Pàgina 34
... pulse was rapid , her breathing anxious and quick , she wasn't herself , as she said , and was vexed at her restlessness . We tried what we could s did everything , was everywhere ; never in the 54 RAB AND HIS FRIENDS .
... pulse was rapid , her breathing anxious and quick , she wasn't herself , as she said , and was vexed at her restlessness . We tried what we could s did everything , was everywhere ; never in the 54 RAB AND HIS FRIENDS .
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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 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 349 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray 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 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 248 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Pàgina 285 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice 'believe no more' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd 'I have felt.
Pàgina 203 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own...
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.