The Great Exhibition: With Continental Sketches, Practical and HumorousHurd & Houghton, 1868 - 486 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة ix
... reasons , with others , that I de- cided to send this somewhat slender sapling into the world without a Preface , and depending solely on such attractions as might be found lying perdu within its covers . To the above remarks I will ...
... reasons , with others , that I de- cided to send this somewhat slender sapling into the world without a Preface , and depending solely on such attractions as might be found lying perdu within its covers . To the above remarks I will ...
الصفحة 72
... reason , since it may mean culture , leisure , and enhanced opportunities of enjoying the glories of this fair earth ; but Nature is a thorough- going democrat , and gives the best of her opulence with both hands to all alike . The site ...
... reason , since it may mean culture , leisure , and enhanced opportunities of enjoying the glories of this fair earth ; but Nature is a thorough- going democrat , and gives the best of her opulence with both hands to all alike . The site ...
الصفحة 74
... reason enough to make it like a palace for kings and queens , with fretted panel - work of tropic foliage traced against the azure sky , and a carpet of curious arabesque in green grass and colors ; with the trees all about glorying in ...
... reason enough to make it like a palace for kings and queens , with fretted panel - work of tropic foliage traced against the azure sky , and a carpet of curious arabesque in green grass and colors ; with the trees all about glorying in ...
الصفحة 83
... Millers as have become moss - grown with antiquity , and are admired by a certain class for the same reason that Dr. Johnson said some old and rare books were valuable , " because they are worthless . GENTLE DULLNESS AT DINNER . 83.
... Millers as have become moss - grown with antiquity , and are admired by a certain class for the same reason that Dr. Johnson said some old and rare books were valuable , " because they are worthless . GENTLE DULLNESS AT DINNER . 83.
الصفحة 88
... reason to dread the consequences of an- other sally , and was sobered both by my escape from bodily harm and the thought of the near ap- proach to a violation of the Third Commandment of which I had been guilty when " entangled in no ...
... reason to dread the consequences of an- other sally , and was sobered both by my escape from bodily harm and the thought of the near ap- proach to a violation of the Third Commandment of which I had been guilty when " entangled in no ...
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الصفحة 480 - In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the Gods see everywhere. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen! Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean.
الصفحة 412 - And yet. on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
الصفحة 461 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
الصفحة 11 - Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies ; for vilest things 235 Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
الصفحة 474 - Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.
الصفحة 352 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
الصفحة 105 - midst the chase, on every plain, The tender thought on thee shall dwell; Each lonely scene shall thee restore; For thee the tear be duly shed; Beloved till life can charm no more, And mourned till pity's self be dead.
الصفحة 74 - Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."— "So," said he, "I allowed him all his own merit.
الصفحة 74 - He laughed heartily, when I mentioned to him a saying of his concerning Mr. Thomas Sheridan, which Foote took a wicked pleasure to circulate. 'Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull ; but it must have taken him a great deaf of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
الصفحة 461 - O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree?