Tales, and Miscellaneous Pieces, Volume 7R. Hunter; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [&c., &c.], 1825 |
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Pagina 162 - Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Pagina 3 - It has,* therefore, been my daughter's aim to promote, by all her writings, the progress of education, from the cradle to the grave. Miss Edgeworth's former works consist of tales for children — of stories for young men and women — and of tales suited to that great mass, which does not move in the circles of fashion. The present volumes are intended to point out some of those errours to which the higher classes of society are disposed.
Pagina 120 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in sueing long to bide; To lose good days, that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs, To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.
Pagina 131 - Qui te pourra louer qu'en se taisant ? Car la parole est toujours reprimee Quand le sujet surmonte le disant.
Pagina 212 - Since then, my lord, on such a world we fall, What say you ? B. Say ? Why, take it, gold and all. P. What riches give us let us then inquire « Meat, fire, and clothes. B. What more ? P. Meat, clothes, and fire.
Pagina 33 - In the opinion of this people, fos. tering hath always been a stronger alliance than blood; and the foster-children do love and are beloved of their foster-fathers and their sept (or clan) more than of their natural parents and kindred; and do participate of their means more frankly, and do adhere unto them, in all fortunes, with more affection and constancy.
Pagina 165 - ... a perpendicular height of one hundred and seventy feet, from the base of which the promontory, covered over with rock and grass, slopes down to the sea, for the space of two hundred feet more : making, in all, a mass of near four hundred feet in height, which, in the beauty and variety of its colouring, in elegance and novelty of arrangement, and in the extraordinary magnificence of its objects, cannot be rivalled.
Pagina 72 - ... to browse on the grass that grew on the house-top. A dunghill was before the only window, at the other end of the house, .and close to the door was a puddle of the dirtiest of dirty water, in which ducks were dabbling. At my approach there came out of the cabin a pig, a calf, a lamb, a kid, and two geese...
Pagina 42 - Twas doing nothing was his curse, Is there a vice can plague us worse ? The wretch who digs the mine for bread, Or ploughs, that others may be fed, Feels less fatigue than that decreed To him who cannot think, or read.
Pagina 132 - Allons, mademoiselle, parlez. Madame, vous allez voir comme elle parle. » Elle vit que j'hésitais à répondre, et pensa qu'il fallait m'aider comme une chanteuse qui prélude, à qui l'on indique l'air qu'on désire d'entendre. « Parlez un peu de religion, me dit-elle; vous direz ensuite autre chose.