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Pagina 2
... smiling landscape , and contemplating , on the banks of the Arve , the rich expanses of ver- dure , those quiet woods , those enamelled meadows , those cottages , those scattered houses , where my ima- gination shewed to me an old man ...
... smiling landscape , and contemplating , on the banks of the Arve , the rich expanses of ver- dure , those quiet woods , those enamelled meadows , those cottages , those scattered houses , where my ima- gination shewed to me an old man ...
Pagina 7
... smile , he turned his ear to one of the oldest ephemera , who sat alone upon a leaf , and uttered the following soliloquy .- " The most cele- brated philosophers of our nation , who lived many hours before me , have asserted that this ...
... smile , he turned his ear to one of the oldest ephemera , who sat alone upon a leaf , and uttered the following soliloquy .- " The most cele- brated philosophers of our nation , who lived many hours before me , have asserted that this ...
Pagina 35
... smile , he would disappoint him with an exclamation of " Well , Sir ? " and look into the face of the confused person , as if he expected the grand point to be yet told - the spirit of the thing to be yet sent forth . This was harsh and ...
... smile , he would disappoint him with an exclamation of " Well , Sir ? " and look into the face of the confused person , as if he expected the grand point to be yet told - the spirit of the thing to be yet sent forth . This was harsh and ...
Pagina 36
... smile for a joke , whether it be a good , a bad , or an indifferent one ; they are charitable enough to consider the will and not the deed ; the motive of the action , and not the action itself . They say of attempt- ed witticisms in ...
... smile for a joke , whether it be a good , a bad , or an indifferent one ; they are charitable enough to consider the will and not the deed ; the motive of the action , and not the action itself . They say of attempt- ed witticisms in ...
Pagina 46
... smile , But reflect as this tombstone you view , That Death in a very short time May perhaps huddle a stone upon you . Buaney , Notts . On Sir Thomas Parkins , Bart , who , some years be- fore his death , had his coffiu made and ...
... smile , But reflect as this tombstone you view , That Death in a very short time May perhaps huddle a stone upon you . Buaney , Notts . On Sir Thomas Parkins , Bart , who , some years be- fore his death , had his coffiu made and ...
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Pagina 337 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among -the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Pagina 271 - Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Pagina 109 - The friendly many, and the favourite few ; Nor one that day did he to mind recall, But she has treasured, and she loves them all ; When in her way she meets them, they appear Peculiar people — death has made them dear. He named his friend, but then his hand she prest, And fondly whispered, " Thou must go to rest :"
Pagina 70 - ... towards it with a view of proceeding close to its base, I observed a few little pieces fall from the top, and while my eye was fixed upon- the place, an immense column, probably fifty feet square, and one hundred and fifty feet high, began to leave the parent ice at the top, and leaning majestically forward, with an accelerated velocity fell with an awful crash into the sea. The water into which it plunged was converted into an appearance of vapour or smoke, like that from a furious cannonading.
Pagina 220 - It derives its name from the instrument made use of by surgeons to stop the circulation of the blood in a limb about to be amputated. It is performed by clasping the hand of your friend, as far as you can, in your own, and then contracting the muscles of your thumb, fingers, and palm, till you have induced any degree of compression you may propose in the hand of your friend.
Pagina 71 - ... through sub-glacial channels to the front of the iceberg, where, in transparent streams, or in small cascades, they fell into the sea. In some places, chasms of several yards in width were seen, in others they were only a few inches or feet across. One of the sailors who attempted to walk across the iceberg, imprudently stept into a narrow chasm filled up with snow to the general level.
Pagina 109 - Apart she sigh'd ; alone, she shed the tear; Then, as if breaking from a cloud, she gave Fresh light, and gilt the prospect of the grave. One day he lighter seem'd, and they forgot The care, the dread, the anguish of their lot; They spoke with cheerfulness, and seem'd to think, Yet said not so—
Pagina 326 - Jones at piquet, for sixpence a game; they played a good while, and the Duke left off when winner of one game. Some time after, he desired the Dean to pay him his sixpence; the Dean said he had no silver ; the Duke asked him for it over and over, and at last desired that he would change a guinea to pay it him, because he should want it to pay the chair that carried him home. The Dean...
Pagina 109 - twas her proper care. Here will she come, and on the grave will sit, Folding her arms, in long abstracted fit; But, if observer pass, will take her round, And careless seem, for she would not be found ; Then go again, and thus her hour employ, While visions please her, and while woes destroy.
Pagina 243 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth and fame, And leaves the -wretch to weep...