Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta, Curious, Humorous, and InstructiveT.N. Kurtz, 1860 - 527 pages |
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... look before you leap , eschew loaferism . M. - Make not mischief by meddling with other folks ' busi- ness . N. - Never be caught napping except in the night - time . O. - Order is Heaven's first law ; obey it . P. - Pursue the plain ...
... look before you leap , eschew loaferism . M. - Make not mischief by meddling with other folks ' busi- ness . N. - Never be caught napping except in the night - time . O. - Order is Heaven's first law ; obey it . P. - Pursue the plain ...
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... look upon thy like again ? In a fine frenzy dashing , thy bright pen , Lively with wit , full of a poet's fire , S mit with the love of Nature's wild attire , O'er mountain , moor , and loch now loves to rove , Now , in day - dreams ...
... look upon thy like again ? In a fine frenzy dashing , thy bright pen , Lively with wit , full of a poet's fire , S mit with the love of Nature's wild attire , O'er mountain , moor , and loch now loves to rove , Now , in day - dreams ...
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... looks shuddering back with conscious dread On such a tarnished blot as she has made . Let hell receive you , riveted in chains , Doomed to the hottest focus of its flames . Tristram Shandy . ALLITERATIVE ACROSTIC . THE following ...
... looks shuddering back with conscious dread On such a tarnished blot as she has made . Let hell receive you , riveted in chains , Doomed to the hottest focus of its flames . Tristram Shandy . ALLITERATIVE ACROSTIC . THE following ...
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... they are looking out a word that has an L , an M , or a D , in it . When therefore we meet with any of these in- scriptions , we are not so much to look in 40 ALPHABETICAL WHIMS . miscellaneous, 407 moralizing and admoni- tory, 385.
... they are looking out a word that has an L , an M , or a D , in it . When therefore we meet with any of these in- scriptions , we are not so much to look in 40 ALPHABETICAL WHIMS . miscellaneous, 407 moralizing and admoni- tory, 385.
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... look in them for the thought as for the year of the Lord . " Apropos of this humorous allusion to the Germanesque character of the chronogram , it is worthy of notice that Euro- pean tourists find far more numerous examples of it in the ...
... look in them for the thought as for the year of the Lord . " Apropos of this humorous allusion to the Germanesque character of the chronogram , it is worthy of notice that Euro- pean tourists find far more numerous examples of it in the ...
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Page 488 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 507 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."* — Church History.
Page 436 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Page 375 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Page 219 - Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 487 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 365 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 336 - More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness...
Page 73 - We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best...
Page 337 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...