Reuben Medlicott, Or, The Coming Man

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Chapman and Hall, 1852
 

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Page 77 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 77 - AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth That I to manhood am arrived so near; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th.
Page 145 - Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it to suffer itself ever to be spoken against. And it is in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
Page 118 - ... particular persons he is present with, or from its being an interruption to conversation itself, or to conversation of a more agreeable kind ; or better, lastly, with regard to himself.
Page 145 - Art thou ambitious To be instructed in celestial matters, And taught to know them clearly? STREPS. Aye, aye, in faith, So they be to my purpose, and celestial. SOCR. What, if I bring you to a conference With my own proper Goddesses, the Clouds?
Page 51 - ... his cause, and therefore made no suit, could not expect, neither did he hope for, or look after it. The good bishop, amongst a jury of competitors thus perplexed, and not yet resolved what to do, or on whom to bestow it, at the last, of his own accord...

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