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... course involved a long period of time , and an immense amount of mental , manual , and mecha- nical labor , and yet for a long time after it had been finished . and offered for sale , not a human being , save the artists them- selves ...
... course involved a long period of time , and an immense amount of mental , manual , and mecha- nical labor , and yet for a long time after it had been finished . and offered for sale , not a human being , save the artists them- selves ...
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... course , this noted place origin- ally derived its name . It is also worthy of notice , that the parish of St. Bride has been , from the days of Pynson , in 1500 , down to the days of Strahan , the location of the " King's Printer ...
... course , this noted place origin- ally derived its name . It is also worthy of notice , that the parish of St. Bride has been , from the days of Pynson , in 1500 , down to the days of Strahan , the location of the " King's Printer ...
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... course , selfishness . Both are delvers of the grovelling sort , both are ill - tempered and sometimes cruel . It is noticed , by a Swedish writer , that " the hog does not enjoy the society of man , as the dog does . He likes going ...
... course , selfishness . Both are delvers of the grovelling sort , both are ill - tempered and sometimes cruel . It is noticed , by a Swedish writer , that " the hog does not enjoy the society of man , as the dog does . He likes going ...
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... course of the sun , but all his power could not stop the course of avarice . The sun stood still , but avarice went on ; Joshua obtained a victory when the sun stood still ; but when avarice was at work Joshua was defeated . " We have ...
... course of the sun , but all his power could not stop the course of avarice . The sun stood still , but avarice went on ; Joshua obtained a victory when the sun stood still ; but when avarice was at work Joshua was defeated . " We have ...
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... course , surges and mingles them with flakes of fire . Civilization follows in its paths . It achieves grander victories , it weaves more durable trophies , it holds wider sway than the conqueror . His name becomes tainted and his ...
... course , surges and mingles them with flakes of fire . Civilization follows in its paths . It achieves grander victories , it weaves more durable trophies , it holds wider sway than the conqueror . His name becomes tainted and his ...
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Page 193 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 382 - Every thing did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity. "Fie, fie, fie!
Page 282 - But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone...
Page 99 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food: For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 231 - No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
Page 398 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, " Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, Creator of heaven and earth...
Page 383 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Page 392 - ... Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 215 - PANSIES, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory ; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story : There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.
Page 228 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth, her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.