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... things , and I defy any one of those fine gentle- men to teach me a single fact regarding it . " " And yet there are some of them - of the fine gentle- men , as you call them , " she said , looking him full in the face , " who are not ...
... things , and I defy any one of those fine gentle- men to teach me a single fact regarding it . " " And yet there are some of them - of the fine gentle- men , as you call them , " she said , looking him full in the face , " who are not ...
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... things should so surely supersede in time all the dear and touching relics of the bygoing still life of our ancestors . Perhaps a day will come when the old charm will exorcise the land again , bringing back its songs and rural poetry ...
... things should so surely supersede in time all the dear and touching relics of the bygoing still life of our ancestors . Perhaps a day will come when the old charm will exorcise the land again , bringing back its songs and rural poetry ...
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... thing , it is hard to believe in it . At least , so Butler thought , as he trudged along . Presently he began to climb the cliff , and he reached the top at last with the great fields and the sea on either side , and the fresh breezes ...
... thing , it is hard to believe in it . At least , so Butler thought , as he trudged along . Presently he began to climb the cliff , and he reached the top at last with the great fields and the sea on either side , and the fresh breezes ...
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... things , if he sacrificed to weariness , to laziness , -to a fancy , -what he would not give up for expediency and success . He was no genius , he could not look for any brilliant future ; he was discouraged and out of heart . He ...
... things , if he sacrificed to weariness , to laziness , -to a fancy , -what he would not give up for expediency and success . He was no genius , he could not look for any brilliant future ; he was discouraged and out of heart . He ...
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... things to do at Caen besides strolling along the dark Cours . There are the quais , and the quaint old courts and open squares , and the busy old streets all alight and full of life . They go climbing , descending , ascending with ...
... things to do at Caen besides strolling along the dark Cours . There are the quais , and the quaint old courts and open squares , and the busy old streets all alight and full of life . They go climbing , descending , ascending with ...
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Page 148 - He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone ; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
Page 221 - So each shall mourn, in life's advance, Dear hopes, dear friends, untimely killed ; Shall grieve for many a forfeit chance, And longing passion unfulfilled. Amen ! whatever fate be sent, Pray God the heart may kindly glow, Although the head with cares be bent, And whitened with the winter snow. Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart.
Page 135 - Out of the eater came forth meat; out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Page 9 - Among the waste and lumber of the shore, Hard coils of cordage, swarthy fishing-nets, Anchors of rusty fluke, and boats updrawn...
Page 73 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 87 - And husband nature's riches from expense; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die...
Page 293 - Here, work enough to watch The Master work, and catch Hints of the proper craft, tricks of the tool's true play.
Page 104 - That's free to give, or to recall. This crowns his feast with wine and wit: Who brought him to that mirth and state? His betters, see, below him sit, Or hunger hopeless at the gate. Who bade the mud from Dives' wheel To spurn the rags of Lazarus?
Page 205 - TT'ORGET not yet the tried intent -*- Of such a truth as I have meant ; My great travail so gladly spent, Forget not yet...
Page 206 - FORGET not yet the tried intent Of such a truth as I have meant; My great travail so gladly spent, Forget not yet! Forget not yet when first began The weary life ye know, since when The suit, the service, none tell can; Forget not yet ! Forget not yet the great assays, The cruel wrong, the scornful ways, The painful patience in delays, Forget not yet!