Proverbial Folk-loreR.J. Clark, printer, High street, 1875 - 173 pagine |
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Pagina 9
... Fair and foolish , Dark and proud . Proverbs are rather hard upon little people . A little pot Is soon hot . However that ' very short young lady ' immortalized by the poet had not much to complain of . Also , When anything abounds , we ...
... Fair and foolish , Dark and proud . Proverbs are rather hard upon little people . A little pot Is soon hot . However that ' very short young lady ' immortalized by the poet had not much to complain of . Also , When anything abounds , we ...
Pagina 11
... fair An angel's form fallen to thy share , " Twad been o'er meickle to gien thee mair , I mean an angel mind ; The ladies may answer , at any rate , that a greater poet is found on their side . Old Nature's self the lovely dears Her ...
... fair An angel's form fallen to thy share , " Twad been o'er meickle to gien thee mair , I mean an angel mind ; The ladies may answer , at any rate , that a greater poet is found on their side . Old Nature's self the lovely dears Her ...
Pagina 12
... Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And Beauty draws us by a single hair . — Pope . Mr. Barrett also speaks on this point very plea- singly , Not She with traitorous kiss her Saviour stung , Not She denied Him with unhallowed ...
... Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And Beauty draws us by a single hair . — Pope . Mr. Barrett also speaks on this point very plea- singly , Not She with traitorous kiss her Saviour stung , Not She denied Him with unhallowed ...
Pagina 13
... fair one , and what came of it ? as some one else has said , in lines more remarkable for point than poetry , God made man upright at the first , and he Would have continued so , but she- However the ladies as usual have had the last ...
... fair one , and what came of it ? as some one else has said , in lines more remarkable for point than poetry , God made man upright at the first , and he Would have continued so , but she- However the ladies as usual have had the last ...
Pagina 15
... fair enough , but it is perilously easy to overdo it . Any real rivalry of the sexes is the sheerest folly , and most unnatural nonsense . As Longfellow has so well written . As unto the bow the string is , So unto the man is woman ...
... fair enough , but it is perilously easy to overdo it . Any real rivalry of the sexes is the sheerest folly , and most unnatural nonsense . As Longfellow has so well written . As unto the bow the string is , So unto the man is woman ...
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Pagina 165 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Pagina 61 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail.
Pagina 106 - Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure ; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Pagina 118 - When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Pagina 109 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the Cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
Pagina 25 - ST. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair.
Pagina 94 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it.
Pagina 93 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Pagina 123 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
Pagina 52 - Good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can,'