Aldershottana: or, Chinks in my hut: and touch-and-go sketches from court to camp, المجلد 141856 |
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Aldershottana: Or, Chinks in My Hut: and Touch-And-Go Sketches from Court to ... لا تتوفر معاينة - 2020 |
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 173 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
الصفحة 184 - And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
الصفحة 3 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
الصفحة 124 - tis no matter ; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ; how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No.
الصفحة xx - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
الصفحة 173 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
الصفحة lvii - Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall not be disappointed.
الصفحة 220 - The flag that braved a thousand years The battle and the breeze...
الصفحة lx - His tawny beard was the equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face. In cut and dye so like a tile, A sudden view it would beguile; The upper part whereof was whey, The nether orange, mixed with grey.
الصفحة 154 - I have told you so much, I may as well tell you this! — well, once I walked up and down in front of her house, in the evening, for two hours