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... least , it is asserted that he gave away yearly pensions , to the large amount of between fifty and sixty thousand gold crowns , to sundry of the queen's ministers . It was done on the general plea of recompensing their loyalty to their ...
... least , it is asserted that he gave away yearly pensions , to the large amount of between fifty and sixty thousand gold crowns , to sundry of the queen's ministers . It was done on the general plea of recompensing their loyalty to their ...
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... least softer tones into his colouring . How touching , even in the midst of the humour of a quasi comic picture , is the following sketch of the poor devoted wife of the " Raff , " where reckless extravagance and want of principle have ...
... least softer tones into his colouring . How touching , even in the midst of the humour of a quasi comic picture , is the following sketch of the poor devoted wife of the " Raff , " where reckless extravagance and want of principle have ...
Side 27
... least prepared for it . Among the pieces in verse in this we have five under the head of " Lyra Hibernica , " written in his richest brogue , full of humour withal , and , as minor sati- rical attacks , to be very well classed under the ...
... least prepared for it . Among the pieces in verse in this we have five under the head of " Lyra Hibernica , " written in his richest brogue , full of humour withal , and , as minor sati- rical attacks , to be very well classed under the ...
Side 28
... least five - sixths of all the micro- scopical objects ever made . It is much to be regretted that the makers of microscopes have so long persisted in charging such enormous prices for good instruments , because it has by so much ...
... least five - sixths of all the micro- scopical objects ever made . It is much to be regretted that the makers of microscopes have so long persisted in charging such enormous prices for good instruments , because it has by so much ...
Side 29
... least orna- mental and most useful student's microscope we know of , besides having the recommenda tion of folding up into a smaller compass than any instrument of its size , and of not being liable to much injury from chemical or ...
... least orna- mental and most useful student's microscope we know of , besides having the recommenda tion of folding up into a smaller compass than any instrument of its size , and of not being liable to much injury from chemical or ...
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Side 18 - It was not her time to love ; beside, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little...
Side 18 - I loved you, Evelyn, all the while ! My heart seemed full as it could hold ; There was place and to spare for the frank young smile, And the red young mouth, and the hair's young gold. So, hush, — I will give you this leaf to keep : See, I shut it inside the sweet cold hand ! There, that is our secret : go to sleep ! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
Side 18 - EVELYN HOPE Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead ! Sit and watch by her side an hour. That is her book-shelf, this her bed; She plucked that piece of geranium-flower, Beginning to die too, in the glass; Little has yet been changed, I think : The shutters are shut, no light may pass Save two long rays through the hinge's chink.
Side 230 - But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
Side 19 - A moment after, and hands unseen Were hanging the night around us fast; But we knew that a bar was broken between Life and life: we were mixed at last In spite of the mortal screen.
Side 27 - WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on...
Side 205 - On the whole, we make too much of faults; the details of the business hide the real centre of it. Faults ? The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Side 264 - ANALOGUE." — A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal. " HOMOLOGUE." — The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function f.
Side 17 - Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woe Long ago; Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame Struck them tame; And that glory and that shame alike, the gold Bought and sold.
Side 19 - Be hate that fruit or love that fruit, It forwards the general deed of man, And each of the Many helps to recruit The life of the race by a general plan ; Each living his own, to boot.