Spare HoursHoughton, 1861 - 458 pàgines |
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Pàgina 10
... expression , says , " confusion and perplexity are , in writing , indeed without excuse , because any one may , if he pleases , know whether he understands or sees through what he is about , and it is unpardonable in a man to lay his ...
... expression , says , " confusion and perplexity are , in writing , indeed without excuse , because any one may , if he pleases , know whether he understands or sees through what he is about , and it is unpardonable in a man to lay his ...
Pàgina 60
... expression , we don't know any better models for manly courage , good sense , and feeling , and they are as well written as they are thought . - There are the works of another man , one of the great- est , not only of our , but of any ...
... expression , we don't know any better models for manly courage , good sense , and feeling , and they are as well written as they are thought . - There are the works of another man , one of the great- est , not only of our , but of any ...
Pàgina 128
... expression , and his love of being loved , he would have most desired , in any one speaking of him after he was gone . He would , I doubt not , say , as one said to a great painter , on looking at his portrait , " It is certainly like ...
... expression , and his love of being loved , he would have most desired , in any one speaking of him after he was gone . He would , I doubt not , say , as one said to a great painter , on looking at his portrait , " It is certainly like ...
Pàgina 143
... expressing every kind of thought in the same , sometimes plaguily douce tone ; a great power of quiet and telling sarcasm , large capacity of listening to and of enjoying other men's talk , however small . - My father - tall , slim ...
... expressing every kind of thought in the same , sometimes plaguily douce tone ; a great power of quiet and telling sarcasm , large capacity of listening to and of enjoying other men's talk , however small . - My father - tall , slim ...
Pàgina 156
... expression of his affection was more like the shock of a Leyden jar , than the continuous current of a galvanic circle . There was , as I have said , a permanent chill given by my mother's death , to what may be called the outer surface ...
... expression of his affection was more like the shock of a Leyden jar , than the continuous current of a galvanic circle . There was , as I have said , a permanent chill given by my mother's death , to what may be called the outer surface ...
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Passatges populars
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.