Crayon Sketches, Volume 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 - New York (N.Y.) |
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... becomes at once a premature adult in head and heart ; and is almost as knowing , lynx - eyed , artful and suspicious as the fully - developed sinners by whom it is surrounded . Where is the wonder if a few more years fulfil its destiny ...
... becomes at once a premature adult in head and heart ; and is almost as knowing , lynx - eyed , artful and suspicious as the fully - developed sinners by whom it is surrounded . Where is the wonder if a few more years fulfil its destiny ...
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... become inured to starvation , or else have got into a mechanical habit of living on from day to day , and do not like to give it over , ) continue to keep up their hearts and still face existence , is more than I can possibly conjecture ...
... become inured to starvation , or else have got into a mechanical habit of living on from day to day , and do not like to give it over , ) continue to keep up their hearts and still face existence , is more than I can possibly conjecture ...
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... becomes a generous , meek , and equitable animal . Whatever is thought of the po- etry there may be reasonable doubts entertained of the policy of Lear's advice , " Take physic , pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel , That ...
... becomes a generous , meek , and equitable animal . Whatever is thought of the po- etry there may be reasonable doubts entertained of the policy of Lear's advice , " Take physic , pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel , That ...
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... become stronger as brains become weaker , and more pro- mises are made than will be kept - now are se- veral men seen reposing in the streets , with the pavement for a bed and the curb - stone for a pillow . Peacefully do they slumber ...
... become stronger as brains become weaker , and more pro- mises are made than will be kept - now are se- veral men seen reposing in the streets , with the pavement for a bed and the curb - stone for a pillow . Peacefully do they slumber ...
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... become the almost exclusive property of " smart young men " and unfledged scribblers , who think it looks well to lament the non - enactment of Shakspeare , and to indulge in little frothy vituperations against the bad taste of the ...
... become the almost exclusive property of " smart young men " and unfledged scribblers , who think it looks well to lament the non - enactment of Shakspeare , and to indulge in little frothy vituperations against the bad taste of the ...
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Page 242 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 27 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 190 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Page 235 - Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Page 108 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 243 - The mountain shadows on her breast Were neither broken nor at rest ; In bright uncertainty they lie, Like future joys to Fancy's eye.
Page 233 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Page 70 - ... the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the inhabitants of the water, that they might be borne to her wherever hid.
Page 15 - OFT in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Page 141 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.