Recreations of a recluse [signed F.J.].1870 |
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... thought I should have seen some Hercules , A second Hector , for his grim aspect , And large proportion of his strong - knit limbs . Alas ! this is a child , a silly dwarf : It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp Should strike such ...
... thought I should have seen some Hercules , A second Hector , for his grim aspect , And large proportion of his strong - knit limbs . Alas ! this is a child , a silly dwarf : It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp Should strike such ...
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... thought scanty . " I think I have heard there were but twelve shirts , not in first - rate order , when the King died , " writes Mr. Carlyle : " A King supremely indifferent to small concerns ; especially to that of shirts and ...
... thought scanty . " I think I have heard there were but twelve shirts , not in first - rate order , when the King died , " writes Mr. Carlyle : " A King supremely indifferent to small concerns ; especially to that of shirts and ...
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... thought an atheist would be at least as big as Burrough the beadle ! " Bur- rough , it may readily be supposed , was a burly personage , physically up to the Doctor's ideal of a leader to a defiant philosophy . Tiny Tinkler in that ...
... thought an atheist would be at least as big as Burrough the beadle ! " Bur- rough , it may readily be supposed , was a burly personage , physically up to the Doctor's ideal of a leader to a defiant philosophy . Tiny Tinkler in that ...
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... him so badly that I thought he must be one of the hired waiters of the Company , who had been put into a coat that didn't belong to VOL . II . L 2 him , turned out to be a real right honourable LITTLE TALBOT THE GREAT . 17.
... him so badly that I thought he must be one of the hired waiters of the Company , who had been put into a coat that didn't belong to VOL . II . L 2 him , turned out to be a real right honourable LITTLE TALBOT THE GREAT . 17.
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... : " A young fellow who seems to have no will of his own , and who does everything that is asked of him , is called a very good - natured , but at the same time is thought a very silly fellow . " ABOUT PEOPLE WHO CAN'T SAY NO . 25.
... : " A young fellow who seems to have no will of his own , and who does everything that is asked of him , is called a very good - natured , but at the same time is thought a very silly fellow . " ABOUT PEOPLE WHO CAN'T SAY NO . 25.
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Page 40 - Go, hang yourselves all ! you are idle, shallow things : I am not of your element : you shall know more hereafter. [Exit. Sir To. Is't possible ? Fab. If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
Page 243 - A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance!
Page 295 - Thou hast nor youth, nor age ; But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both: for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld ; and when thou art old, and rich, Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this, That bears the name of life? Yet in this life Lie hid more thousand deaths: yet death we fear, That makes these odds all even.
Page 147 - That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Page 151 - He said, I think I do. Then said Evangelist, Keep that light in your eye, and go up directly thereto, so shalt thou see the Gate; at which when thou knockest, it shall be told thee what thou shalt do.
Page 257 - Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration.
Page 315 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 161 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
Page 41 - How now, Horatio? you tremble and look pale; Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you on 't? Hor. Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes.
Page 143 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.