Illustrations of Human Life, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1837 |
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... neighbours ; but if they are confined to those bits of lacemakers who flocked about me on my arrival , I think they will not satisfy your known social qualities . Perhaps , indeed , you may have a farming parson , or a Doctor Slop in ...
... neighbours ; but if they are confined to those bits of lacemakers who flocked about me on my arrival , I think they will not satisfy your known social qualities . Perhaps , indeed , you may have a farming parson , or a Doctor Slop in ...
Page 109
... Neighbour Wiggens , I allow I was wrong to start the subject , when I knew we should never agree . Were we to dispute till Dooms- day about Radical or not Radical Bedford , it would be a dispute about things and persons which neither of ...
... Neighbour Wiggens , I allow I was wrong to start the subject , when I knew we should never agree . Were we to dispute till Dooms- day about Radical or not Radical Bedford , it would be a dispute about things and persons which neither of ...
Page 113
... diaphragm , or the orifice of the stomach . * " However , " he continued , " we shall soon have to witness still stronger proofs of my theory , if * See ante , p . 75 . my neighbour Squire , and would - be Peer , ATTICUS . 113.
... diaphragm , or the orifice of the stomach . * " However , " he continued , " we shall soon have to witness still stronger proofs of my theory , if * See ante , p . 75 . my neighbour Squire , and would - be Peer , ATTICUS . 113.
Page 114
Robert Plumer Ward. my neighbour Squire , and would - be Peer , be but at home . " At this , we approached a most splendid ... neighbour many a year in India , but was now consigned to the servants ' hall . " So much for the utility of ...
Robert Plumer Ward. my neighbour Squire , and would - be Peer , be but at home . " At this , we approached a most splendid ... neighbour many a year in India , but was now consigned to the servants ' hall . " So much for the utility of ...
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... - plished . " " And did you see them no more ? " asked I , much amused . " Why , yes ! they came over once again , and the eldest , who was the one the neighbours had given to me , seemed to take particular interest about my ATTICUS . 117.
... - plished . " " And did you see them no more ? " asked I , much amused . " Why , yes ! they came over once again , and the eldest , who was the one the neighbours had given to me , seemed to take particular interest about my ATTICUS . 117.
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Page 41 - I thought that all things had been savage here ; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.
Page 74 - To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 18 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 334 - They are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep ; their soul melteth away because of the trouble.
Page 316 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 248 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 150 - But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embow-ed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Page 120 - We find our tenets just the same at last. Both fairly owning Riches, in effect, No grace of Heaven or token of th' elect; Given to the fool, the mad, the vain, the evil, To Ward, to Waters, Chartres, and the devil.
Page 59 - mere oblivion," a dead letter: for all that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it. Fear is poetry, hope is poetry, love is poetry, hatred is poetry, contempt, jealousy, remorse, admiration, wonder, pity, despair, or madness, are all poetry. Poetry is that fine particle within us, that expands, rarefies, refines, raises our whole being: without it "man's life is poor as beast's.
Page 84 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue.