Talks with Mr. GladstoneLongmans, Green and Company, 1898 - 223 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 97 - That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth, wherein they are not guilty, (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners; that these men, Carrying I say the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star...
الصفحة 169 - ... it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony...
الصفحة 210 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
الصفحة 78 - Ei fu; siccome immobile Dato il mortal sospiro Stette la spoglia immemore Orba di tanto spiro , Così percossa, attonita La terra al nunzio sta ; Muta pensando all'ultima Ora dell' uom fatale , Né sa quando una simile Orma di pie mortale La sua cruenta polvere A calpestar verrà.
الصفحة 80 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
الصفحة 157 - You thought, miss! I don't know any business you have to think at all — thought does not become a young woman. But the point we would request of you is, that you will promise to forget this fellow — to illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
الصفحة 70 - As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. But the situation is still dangerous. There are occasional earthquakes, and ever and anon the dark rumbling of the sea.
الصفحة 32 - Oxford gentleman of his story, ' there is nothing true and nothing new, and no matter ! ' To this, as to every other species of indifferentism, Mr. Gladstone is the antithesis. Oxford has not disheartened him. Some of his colleagues would say they wished it had. He is interested in everything he has to do with, and often interested too much. He proposes to put a stamp on contract notes with an eager earnestness as if the destiny of Europe, here and hereafter, depended upon its enactment. He cannot...
الصفحة 176 - ... which he thought to be fitting for a headmaster. His red shaggy eyebrows were so prominent, that he habitually used them as arms and hands for the purpose of pointing out any object towards which he wished to direct attention ; the rest of his features were equally striking in their way, and were all and all his own ; he wore a fancy-dress partly resembling the costume of Napoleon, and partly that of a widow-woman.
الصفحة 211 - Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.