A Book of BachelorsA. Constable and Company, 1899 - 449 sider |
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... remarks the pedagogue , were too lax , and were content to leave their pupils to that valuable branch of ornithology known as birds ' - nesting , or to that excellent preparation for diplomacy styled by envious proprietors , who have ...
... remarks the pedagogue , were too lax , and were content to leave their pupils to that valuable branch of ornithology known as birds ' - nesting , or to that excellent preparation for diplomacy styled by envious proprietors , who have ...
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... remark that by weight the author does not mean heaviness , and the foregoing quotation affords an admirable illustration of this important oratorical distinction . Once more he fixes the true principle of public speech as simplicity of ...
... remark that by weight the author does not mean heaviness , and the foregoing quotation affords an admirable illustration of this important oratorical distinction . Once more he fixes the true principle of public speech as simplicity of ...
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... remarks , " as we sat in an open and goodly gallery at dinner , a young English gentleman , who , desirous to travel , had been in Italy and many other places , fortuned to come to his house , and ( not so well furnished for his return ...
... remarks , " as we sat in an open and goodly gallery at dinner , a young English gentleman , who , desirous to travel , had been in Italy and many other places , fortuned to come to his house , and ( not so well furnished for his return ...
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... remarks from personal experience , " If thou gettest but as much as will pay for the binding and strings thou art well enough , the rest thou shalt have in promises of great matters " ( p . 34 ) . Michael Drayton left but £ 5 at his ...
... remarks from personal experience , " If thou gettest but as much as will pay for the binding and strings thou art well enough , the rest thou shalt have in promises of great matters " ( p . 34 ) . Michael Drayton left but £ 5 at his ...
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... remark . " Riches , " he says , " are an ornament , not the cause of nobility ; and many times we see there lieth more worth under a threadbare cloak , and within a thatched cottage , than the richest robe , or stateliest palace ...
... remark . " Riches , " he says , " are an ornament , not the cause of nobility ; and many times we see there lieth more worth under a threadbare cloak , and within a thatched cottage , than the richest robe , or stateliest palace ...
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Side 235 - The very Honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy, And they (methinks) deserve my pity, Who for it can endure the stings, The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings 10 Of this great hive, the city. Ah, yet, ere I descend to th...
Side 376 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Side 235 - I descend to the grave May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too!
Side 388 - With the swift pilgrim's daubed nest; The groves already did rejoice, In Philomel's triumphing voice, The showers were short, the weather mild, The morning fresh, the evening smiled.
Side 236 - tis the way too thither. How happy here should I, And one dear She, live, and embracing die ! She, who is all the world, and can exclude In deserts solitude. I should have then this only fear — Lest men, when they my pleasures see, Should hither throng to live like me, And so make a city here.
Side 386 - Nor ruin make oppressors great. Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend.
Side 205 - In a true piece of Wit all things must be, Yet all things there agree. As in the Ark, joyn'd without force or strife, All Creatures dwelt; all Creatures that had Life.
Side 209 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there. For I remember when I began to read, and to take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's...
Side 386 - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall : Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Side 205 - Great Cowley then (a mighty genius) wrote, O'errun with wit, and lavish of his thought: His turns too closely on the reader press; He more had pleased us, had he pleased us less. One glittering thought no sooner strikes our eyes With silent wonder, but new wonders rise.