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... Hand - book to Surrey , Hampshire , and the Isle of Wight . London : John Murray , 1858 . - V. - 1 . Kosmos . Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreitung . Von Alexander von Humboldt . 2. Cosmos . A Physical Description of the Universe ...
... Hand - book to Surrey , Hampshire , and the Isle of Wight . London : John Murray , 1858 . - V. - 1 . Kosmos . Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreitung . Von Alexander von Humboldt . 2. Cosmos . A Physical Description of the Universe ...
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... hand know what his left hand doeth . In fact , his favourite amusement in hours of grim relaxation seems to be to make his cabinet ministers look foolish by taking the most important steps of state policy , without allowing them to ...
... hand know what his left hand doeth . In fact , his favourite amusement in hours of grim relaxation seems to be to make his cabinet ministers look foolish by taking the most important steps of state policy , without allowing them to ...
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... hand , the peace they had jointly made . That in the course of the thirty years during which this united action was ... hands . It was to be expected that they should look on all aspirations after freedom as pregnant with the elements of ...
... hand , the peace they had jointly made . That in the course of the thirty years during which this united action was ... hands . It was to be expected that they should look on all aspirations after freedom as pregnant with the elements of ...
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... hand . The next great point was to detach Austria from England ; and to one who knew the temper of existing English opinion this was not a very arduous task . The Emperor of the French has this advantage over every other antagonist with ...
... hand . The next great point was to detach Austria from England ; and to one who knew the temper of existing English opinion this was not a very arduous task . The Emperor of the French has this advantage over every other antagonist with ...
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... hand afterwards displayed in the manu- scripts of his plays . How William Shakspeare gave a fresh impulse to his house- hold troubles by an early marriage , and perhaps made Stratford too hot to hold him by reason of certain pranks he ...
... hand afterwards displayed in the manu- scripts of his plays . How William Shakspeare gave a fresh impulse to his house- hold troubles by an early marriage , and perhaps made Stratford too hot to hold him by reason of certain pranks he ...
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Page 165 - Camelot; And up and down the people go Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro...
Page 58 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Page 193 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 40 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; 5 And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 442 - ... inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow...
Page 227 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. Ban. New honours come upon him Like our strange garments ; cleave not to their mould, But with the aid of use. Macb. Come what come may ; Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Page 88 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy. But there is a space of life between in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted.
Page 429 - ... perhaps, who, indeed, are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my...
Page 189 - Well is it that no child is born of thee. The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws, The craft of kindred and the Godless hosts Of heathen swarming o'er the Northern Sea...