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... less occasion to have noticed it ; but there was something in the whole character of the affair , which , if not unprecedented , rendered it singular in the usual current of human events . This Bible was in two folio volumes , which ...
... less occasion to have noticed it ; but there was something in the whole character of the affair , which , if not unprecedented , rendered it singular in the usual current of human events . This Bible was in two folio volumes , which ...
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... less than one hundred golden crowns per diem , no equivocal evidence of the extent of his operations . He also retained , not only in his friendship , but in his employ , a host of the literary men of his day , among the number the ...
... less than one hundred golden crowns per diem , no equivocal evidence of the extent of his operations . He also retained , not only in his friendship , but in his employ , a host of the literary men of his day , among the number the ...
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... less applicable to our own times . Perhaps the most curious instance that ever occurred of an author - publisher , if we may venture so to style him , was that of an individual well known , years since , in the streets of London , who ...
... less applicable to our own times . Perhaps the most curious instance that ever occurred of an author - publisher , if we may venture so to style him , was that of an individual well known , years since , in the streets of London , who ...
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... less admi- rably pointed -- we regret that our recollection supplies us with no more than the following specimen : " Let no rude footsteps on this pavement tread , For know , these very flags to me are bread ! — Oh , spare a penny , or ...
... less admi- rably pointed -- we regret that our recollection supplies us with no more than the following specimen : " Let no rude footsteps on this pavement tread , For know , these very flags to me are bread ! — Oh , spare a penny , or ...
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... less the patience of his publisher , who had already advanced him , in various sums , the amount of £ 1,500 , he was induced , on receipt of the concluding sheet of his Dictionary , to send to the doctor the following : A. Millar sends ...
... less the patience of his publisher , who had already advanced him , in various sums , the amount of £ 1,500 , he was induced , on receipt of the concluding sheet of his Dictionary , to send to the doctor the following : A. Millar sends ...
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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.