 I should record the beauty, innocence, and untimely death, of the first object my eyes ever beheld with love. The beauteous virgin! how ignorantly did she charm, how carelessly excel? Oh death! thou hast right to the bold, to the ambitious, to the high,...  Essays, Biographical, Critical and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Página 196por Nathan Drake - 1814Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Walter James Graham - 1928 - 440 páginas
...beauteous virgin! how ignorantly did she charm, how carelessly excel ? Oh Death! thou hast right to the bold, to the ambitious, to the high, and to the haughty;...did the habit of death become the pretty trifler! I still behold the smiling earth— A large train of disasters were coming on to my memory, when my... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1900 - 618 páginas
...death in ' The Hoggarty Diamond,' we are moved in the same way. ' O Death, thou hast a right to the bold, to the ambitious, to the high, and to the haughty,...the meek, to the undiscerning, to the thoughtless ? ' Thackeray might well have written that sentence, and the likeness between the two only serves to... | |
 | 1898 - 252 páginas
...The soft, white, fluffy cotton is gathered in bags or baskets and spread out on the ground to dry. Why this cruelty to the humble, to the meek to the undiscerning, to the thoughtless? Temperance, industry, exercise and cleanliness are the lessons equally enjoined to the young of both... | |
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