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Page 146 - ... there is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we may.
Page 35 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth; the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 34 - Go ye after him, through the city, and smite ; let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity : slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women ; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark ; and begin at my sanctuary.
Page 165 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Page 247 - THERE is beyond the sky A heaven of joy and love ; And holy children, when they die, Go to that world above.
Page 28 - Yes ! I have loved thy wild abode, Unknown, unploughed, untrodden shore ; Where scarce the woodman finds a road, And scarce the fisher plies an oar; For man's neglect I love thee more ; That art nor avarice intrude To tame thy torrent's thunder-shock, Or prune thy vintage of the rock Magnificently rude.
Page 233 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
Page 332 - The divorce between song and sense had then reached its utmost range; and to all verses connected with music, from a Birth-day Ode down to the libretto of the last new opera, might fairly be applied the solution Figaro gives of the quality of the words of songs, in general, — 'Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le chante...
Page 133 - Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad : a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt, and a madman to stir all up. ( ' The Art of Dining,1 by Abraham Hayward, QC ; see his Essays, 1858, vol. ii., p. 427. The second edition of ' The Art of Dining ' is dated 1853.) This proverb (again in English only) is reproduced in ' Hints for the Table
Page 87 - The wanderer, far from home and friends, feels doubly a stranger in this strange land, where no smile greets his coming, no tear is shed at his going, — where his memory passes away, like that of a guest who tarrieth but a day, — where nothing of human...