The Student: A Series of Papers, المجلد 10Saunders and Otley, ... Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, ... Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; and J. Cumming, Dublin., 1840 - 595 من الصفحات |
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... fashion of giving entertainments , in which ceremony was banished for mirth . All the pleasures of life were at his command : he drank , though without excess , the cup of enjoyment ; -ate , laughed , and loved his fill . No man in ...
... fashion of giving entertainments , in which ceremony was banished for mirth . All the pleasures of life were at his command : he drank , though without excess , the cup of enjoyment ; -ate , laughed , and loved his fill . No man in ...
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... fashion in tea - cups : he said not a word about his nephew's books . Fi - ho - ti was piqued ; he introduced the subject of his own accord . " Ah ! " said the philosopher , dryly , " I understand you have written something that pleases ...
... fashion in tea - cups : he said not a word about his nephew's books . Fi - ho - ti was piqued ; he introduced the subject of his own accord . " Ah ! " said the philosopher , dryly , " I understand you have written something that pleases ...
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... fashion than the old Earl of Norwich , who was esteemed the greatest wit of the time of Charles the First . But it is clear that the Earl of Norwich must have wanted knowledge of the world ; he did not feel , as by an instinct , like ...
... fashion than the old Earl of Norwich , who was esteemed the greatest wit of the time of Charles the First . But it is clear that the Earl of Norwich must have wanted knowledge of the world ; he did not feel , as by an instinct , like ...
الصفحة 79
... fashion . More familiar than the Essay , more impressed with the attrac- tion of individual character , the Dialogue has also the illustrious examples of old - to associate the class to which it belongs with no commonplace or ignoble ...
... fashion . More familiar than the Essay , more impressed with the attrac- tion of individual character , the Dialogue has also the illustrious examples of old - to associate the class to which it belongs with no commonplace or ignoble ...
الصفحة 85
... fashion is to surprise , and never to disappoint . you have no reputation for wit , you may succeed with- out it ; if you have , people do not forgive you for falling below their expectations : they attribute your silence to your ...
... fashion is to surprise , and never to disappoint . you have no reputation for wit , you may succeed with- out it ; if you have , people do not forgive you for falling below their expectations : they attribute your silence to your ...
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الصفحة 91 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news.
الصفحة 30 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
الصفحة 277 - The innocent prattle of his children takes out the sting of a man's poverty. But the children of the very poor do not prattle. It is none of the least frightful features in that condition, that there is no childishness in its dwellings. Poor people, said a sensible old nurse to us once, do not bring up their children ; they drag them up.
الصفحة 6 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner; and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
الصفحة 278 - The little careless darling of the wealthier nursery, in their hovel, is transformed betimes into a premature reflecting person. No one has time to dandle it, no one thinks it worth while to coax it, to soothe it, to toss it up and down, to humor it.
الصفحة 74 - Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke. and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description; she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue), O'er picturing that Venus, where we see, The fancy outwork nature...
الصفحة 430 - Clothing the palpable and the familiar With golden exhalations of the dawn. Whatever fortunes wait my future toils, The beautiful is vanished — and returns not.
الصفحة 509 - To one man's treat, but for another's ball? When Florio speaks what virgin could withstand, If gentle Damon did not squeeze her hand? With varying vanities, from every part, They shift the moving Toyshop of their heart; Where wigs with wigs, with sword-knots sword-knots strive, Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive.
الصفحة 371 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
الصفحة 56 - Roman wont; first on foot, then as their age permits, on horseback, to all the art of cavalry ; that having in sport, but with much exactness and daily muster, served out the rudiments of their soldiership, in all the skill of embattling, marching, encamping, fortifying, besieging, and battering, with all the helps of ancient and modern stratagems, tactics, and warlike maxims, they may as it were out of a long war come forth renowned and perfect commanders in the service of their country.