My Study WindowsSampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876 - 433 páginas |
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... respect , follows Thomson . With him , too , " Winter desolates the year , " and " How pleasing wears the wintry night Spent with the old illustrious dead ! While by the taper's trembling light I seem those awful scenes to tread Where ...
... respect , follows Thomson . With him , too , " Winter desolates the year , " and " How pleasing wears the wintry night Spent with the old illustrious dead ! While by the taper's trembling light I seem those awful scenes to tread Where ...
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... respect for the sun when I saw him grop- ing among the chimney - pots opposite my windows as he described his impoverished arc in the sky . The enforced seclusion of the season makes it the time for serious study and occupations that ...
... respect for the sun when I saw him grop- ing among the chimney - pots opposite my windows as he described his impoverished arc in the sky . The enforced seclusion of the season makes it the time for serious study and occupations that ...
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... respect , whether they were more touchy than other folks . On the whole , I thought we were not . Plutarch , who at least had studied philosophy , if he had not mastered it , could not stomach something Herodotus had said of Boeotia ...
... respect , whether they were more touchy than other folks . On the whole , I thought we were not . Plutarch , who at least had studied philosophy , if he had not mastered it , could not stomach something Herodotus had said of Boeotia ...
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... respect to us , and pats this shaggy continent on the back with a lively sense of generous unbending . The German who plays the bass - viol has a well - founded con- tempt , which he is not always nice in concealing , for a country so ...
... respect to us , and pats this shaggy continent on the back with a lively sense of generous unbending . The German who plays the bass - viol has a well - founded con- tempt , which he is not always nice in concealing , for a country so ...
Página 71
... respect . However it be , we are not treated like other people , or perhaps I should say like people who are ever likely to be met with in society . Is it in the climate ? Either I have a ON A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION IN FOREIGNERS . 71.
... respect . However it be , we are not treated like other people , or perhaps I should say like people who are ever likely to be met with in society . Is it in the climate ? Either I have a ON A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION IN FOREIGNERS . 71.
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 417 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Página 422 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Página 422 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 422 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Página 419 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect in vile Man that mourns, As the rapt Seraph that adores and burns; To him no high, no low, no great, no...
Página 36 - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating...
Página 417 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Página 417 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
Página 236 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Página 418 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.