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... leave the ci - devant contractor and miser . All the inte- rest he has to the reader is that he is dead , and that two or three days before he died he had destroyed a will leaving all his fortune to the Hospital for Incurable Idiots of ...
... leave the ci - devant contractor and miser . All the inte- rest he has to the reader is that he is dead , and that two or three days before he died he had destroyed a will leaving all his fortune to the Hospital for Incurable Idiots of ...
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... leave the Abruzzi . He managed , however , before his departure to have an interview with Alicia , but he failed in inducing her to accompany him . They parted in sorrow , and Sir Philip resumed his wandering life , but no change of ...
... leave the Abruzzi . He managed , however , before his departure to have an interview with Alicia , but he failed in inducing her to accompany him . They parted in sorrow , and Sir Philip resumed his wandering life , but no change of ...
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... leave among the first . It was a masqued ball , but Sir Philip- was too proud to wear any disguise , and too blasé to join in the amusement . He was merely a spectator . He was walking list- lessly among the brilliant crowd when a lady ...
... leave among the first . It was a masqued ball , but Sir Philip- was too proud to wear any disguise , and too blasé to join in the amusement . He was merely a spectator . He was walking list- lessly among the brilliant crowd when a lady ...
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... leave London for the country in the height of the season , for it was his lordship's practice not to play beyond his ready money . If that was lost he returned to the country to his nephew , the Earl La Chapelle's seat , and remained ...
... leave London for the country in the height of the season , for it was his lordship's practice not to play beyond his ready money . If that was lost he returned to the country to his nephew , the Earl La Chapelle's seat , and remained ...
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... leave , but he was no longer amenable to command or persuasion ; with flushed brow , stern lip , and glittering eye the young man had surrendered himself to the demon of gambling . Within a short time much of the freshness of youth had ...
... leave , but he was no longer amenable to command or persuasion ; with flushed brow , stern lip , and glittering eye the young man had surrendered himself to the demon of gambling . Within a short time much of the freshness of youth had ...
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Página 440 - To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. "An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. "He dried his wings: like gauze they grew: Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.
Página 84 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Página 318 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Página 150 - No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic ; and, certainly, to a kingdom, or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise. A civil war, indeed, is like the heat of a fever : but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health ; for in a slothful peace, both courages will effeminate and manners corrupt...
Página 368 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Página 461 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Página 318 - But little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve. An arc in the movement of a large intellect does not sensibly differ from a straight line. Even if it have the third vowel as its centre, it does not soon betray it.
Página 429 - When you censure the age, Be cautious and sage, Lest the courtiers offended, should be ; If you mention vice or bribe, 'Tis so pat to all the tribe, Each cries — That was levelld at me.
Página 86 - There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing, and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die!
Página 430 - When Bibo thought fit from this world to retreat, As full of Champagne as an egg's full of meat, He waked in the boat, and to Charon he said, That he would be row'd back, for he was not yet dead.