Relics of LiteratureT. Boys, 1823 - 400 páginas |
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... half the kingdom with them , whilst the king lived ; and , after his death , the island in two parts between them . And , when the rumour of this was spread over the face of the countries , Aganippus , king of France , heard of the ...
... half the kingdom with them , whilst the king lived ; and , after his death , the island in two parts between them . And , when the rumour of this was spread over the face of the countries , Aganippus , king of France , heard of the ...
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... half of them . I send you only one scene betwixt two of our old women . It was taken down with care by an able hand who was ear - witness of the confabulation . DIALOGUE . 66 I am , & c . " ( Elspeth sola , looking through a broken pane ...
... half of them . I send you only one scene betwixt two of our old women . It was taken down with care by an able hand who was ear - witness of the confabulation . DIALOGUE . 66 I am , & c . " ( Elspeth sola , looking through a broken pane ...
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... half wi ' a witness ! Awa ' wi ' my whiskey ! Awa ' wi ' the tow frae my very rock ! The very carded tow frae my rock ! But heal be his heart , he is ay for his kintry . ( To Elspeth . ) I'm e'en , Elspeth , comen hirplen ben wi ' my ...
... half wi ' a witness ! Awa ' wi ' my whiskey ! Awa ' wi ' the tow frae my very rock ! The very carded tow frae my rock ! But heal be his heart , he is ay for his kintry . ( To Elspeth . ) I'm e'en , Elspeth , comen hirplen ben wi ' my ...
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... half , been loaded with unalloyed obloquy , it might seem the height of folly to offer any thing in its vindication ; but if we can shew his character in a more amiable or less odious light , justice demands that his memory should have ...
... half , been loaded with unalloyed obloquy , it might seem the height of folly to offer any thing in its vindication ; but if we can shew his character in a more amiable or less odious light , justice demands that his memory should have ...
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... half of his wit , the other half would make him the most agreeable man in the world . This observation of the count's did not strike me much when I heard it , but I have often marked the propriety of it since . Last night I supped at ...
... half of his wit , the other half would make him the most agreeable man in the world . This observation of the count's did not strike me much when I heard it , but I have often marked the propriety of it since . Last night I supped at ...
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Página 275 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 383 - So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Página 325 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest: welcome at an inn.
Página 384 - And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Página 186 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state.
Página 381 - And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Página 81 - Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it, till they marry ; and she had on a necklace, of exceeding fine jewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low; her air was 1 He probably means rushes. stately ; her manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Página 32 - Also I would, besides that allowance, have 600/. quarterly to be paid, for the performance of charitable works : and those things I would not, neither will be accountable for. Also, I will have three horses for my own saddle, that none shall dare to lend or borrow; none lend but I, none borrow but you.
Página 275 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 8 - I'll count your power not worth a pin: Alas, what hereby shall I win, If he gainsay me ? What if I beat the wanton boy With many a rod ? He will repay me with annoy, Because a god. Then sit thou safely on my knee, And let thy bower my bosom be, Lurk in mine eyes, I like of thee; O Cupid, so thou pity me, Spare not, but play thee.