 | Goold Brown - English language - 1851 - 324 pages
...What-ho ! thou genius of the clime what-ho ! Liest thou asleep beneath these hiUs of snow ? — Dryden. Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! — Scott. • Here he had need All cireumspection ; and we now, no less, Choice in our suffrage... | |
 | Henry Cadwallader Adams - 1851 - 172 pages
...to avow it. How crooked and uncertain are the ways of deceit ! Truly indeed has the poet written, " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! " and sadly was Harry beginning to illustrate this truth by his rapid progress in duplicity. " Is... | |
 | Harriet Elizabeth Fourdrinier - Community life - 1852 - 354 pages
...with this desire, and she turned and twisted the thought in her mind how best to make him stop away. " Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! " What an illustration of this truth were the conduct and feelings of poor Sarah Ward ! Her manner... | |
 | Mrs. Dunlop - 1852 - 932 pages
...it could have been that had thus depressed her when Arthur was by her side. VOL. II. CHAPTER II. " Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." SCOTT. " Banished from her Is self from self ; a deadly banishment ! What light is light, if Silvia... | |
 | Fulwar Craven Fowle - Country life - 1853 - 380 pages
...whom I could entirely rely, and who had promised to deliver anything so sent only into my own hands. " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive !" " On arriving one day at the cottage, I found a letter apprizing me that the dreaded event had taken... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - England - 1854 - 608 pages
...distinction in any sphere of life that we would have it considered well — as a beacon to warn from ruin. ' Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! ' Despite his marvellous talents, his industry, his knowledge, his magnitude of mind, his glorious... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children's poetry - 1854 - 264 pages
...APHORISMS. OF all bad things with which mankind are curst, Their own bad tempers surely are the worst. Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive. DR. FRANKLIN. DR. FRANKLIN, in the early part of his life, and when following the business of a printer,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...of that, I trow. Yet Clare's sharp questions must I shun ; Must separate Constance from the Nun — Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive I A Palmer too ! — no wonder why I felt rebuked beneath his eye : I might have known there was but... | |
 | English life - English fiction - 1855 - 958 pages
...say nothing on the subject, and thus unintentionally laid the train for much future dissimulation. " Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." CHAPTER VIII. " No after friendships e'er can raise Th' endearments of our early days, Nor e'er the... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 450 pages
...light, Then sinks at once ; and all is night." In all places of this kind, where a passing thought is suggested by some external scene, that thought...web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!" But the reflections which are founded, not on events, but on scenes, are, for the most part, shallow,... | |
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