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... kind attentions . " I thank you heartily , " he says , " for the sherry ; it was the best of the kind I ever drank . " The current coin was at that period wretchedly debased . one letter Dryden says , " I expect forty pounds in good ...
... kind attentions . " I thank you heartily , " he says , " for the sherry ; it was the best of the kind I ever drank . " The current coin was at that period wretchedly debased . one letter Dryden says , " I expect forty pounds in good ...
Page 70
... kind . He lives in a splendid hallucination , a waking trance , and so far it is well ; but if he thinks he has any other need or use for all this end- less store ( any more than to swell the ocean ) he deceives him- self , and is no ...
... kind . He lives in a splendid hallucination , a waking trance , and so far it is well ; but if he thinks he has any other need or use for all this end- less store ( any more than to swell the ocean ) he deceives him- self , and is no ...
Page 79
... kind , and whose property was estimated at £ 800,000 sterling . Among other characteristic incidents related of him , it is said that on the approach of that dread summons which was to divorce him from his cherished gold , he exclaimed ...
... kind , and whose property was estimated at £ 800,000 sterling . Among other characteristic incidents related of him , it is said that on the approach of that dread summons which was to divorce him from his cherished gold , he exclaimed ...
Page 86
... kind of property cannot be sold in Virginia for debts , unless at the discretion of the owner . He had a large family , and for the sake of his children , preferred lying in jail to selling his land . A friend hinted to him that ...
... kind of property cannot be sold in Virginia for debts , unless at the discretion of the owner . He had a large family , and for the sake of his children , preferred lying in jail to selling his land . A friend hinted to him that ...
Page 94
... kind of service , but withal a wanderer . If he comes to you , it is but to leave you . If you retain him , he is good for nothing - he sleeps . Take care that he returns , for he knows how to do everything ; he is success- ful in all ...
... kind of service , but withal a wanderer . If he comes to you , it is but to leave you . If you retain him , he is good for nothing - he sleeps . Take care that he returns , for he knows how to do everything ; he is success- ful in all ...
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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.