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... believe it ; taste , and sensibility , and genius , have been brought to the work . It bears dreamy perusal well - and is like a col- lection of musical pieces , in which , by a certain rare felicity , the compo- sitions of harmonists ...
... believe it ; taste , and sensibility , and genius , have been brought to the work . It bears dreamy perusal well - and is like a col- lection of musical pieces , in which , by a certain rare felicity , the compo- sitions of harmonists ...
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... believe they find it so , " said he negligently ; " as for me , I know too little of what English comforts are , to be sensible of their absence . Your winter , " added he , shivering , " is sadly gloomy , and I feel a want of sunshine ...
... believe they find it so , " said he negligently ; " as for me , I know too little of what English comforts are , to be sensible of their absence . Your winter , " added he , shivering , " is sadly gloomy , and I feel a want of sunshine ...
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... believe that the truth of all this will , in due time and place , be properly established . These proceedings have been resorted to un- der the mask of offering mediation , and demanding an armistice ; they have been resorted to under a ...
... believe that the truth of all this will , in due time and place , be properly established . These proceedings have been resorted to un- der the mask of offering mediation , and demanding an armistice ; they have been resorted to under a ...
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... believe , of the Home Under - Secretary . Next came I to Glyn , from which one of the three anomalous titles of knight is taken . The story runs , that one of the Earls of Desmond - they say so lately as in the days of good Queen Bess ...
... believe , of the Home Under - Secretary . Next came I to Glyn , from which one of the three anomalous titles of knight is taken . The story runs , that one of the Earls of Desmond - they say so lately as in the days of good Queen Bess ...
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... believe , present , may remember how one of the gentle- men of that party , who also squinted a little , was jeered by the rest with being on that account Actooa's brother ! 66 I do not say that this took place in Government House ...
... believe , present , may remember how one of the gentle- men of that party , who also squinted a little , was jeered by the rest with being on that account Actooa's brother ! 66 I do not say that this took place in Government House ...
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Page 178 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Page 37 - No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
Page 178 - Would he were fatter ; but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men : he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music...
Page 578 - For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Page 364 - The man who proceeds in it with steadiness and resolution, -will in a little time find that ' her ways are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are peace.
Page 5 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Page 344 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 375 - Our manner of life was this. Lord Byron, who used to sit up at night, writing Don Juan (which he did under the influence of gin and water), rose late in the morning. He breakfasted ; read ; lounged about, singing an air, generally out of Rossini, and in a swaggering style, though in a voice at once small and veiled...
Page 397 - ... ask, To see how this cockney-bred setter of rabbits Takes gravely the lord of the forest to task, And judges of lions by puppy-dog habits. ' Nay, fed as he was (and this makes it a dark case) With sops every day from the lion's own pan, He lifts up his leg at the noble beast's carcass, And — does all a dog, so diminutive, can.
Page 396 - Lives" are the rage) The whole Reminiscences, wond'rous and strange, Of a small puppy-dog, that liv'd once in the cage Of the late noble Lion at Exeter 'Change. Though the dog is a dog of the kind they call