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... falls through . But time should gently wean us of all that it should teach us the best lesson , and the last - to distrust ourselves , to know our own weaknesses , to be generous to the weaknesses of others , and to praise and ...
... falls through . But time should gently wean us of all that it should teach us the best lesson , and the last - to distrust ourselves , to know our own weaknesses , to be generous to the weaknesses of others , and to praise and ...
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... fall in ; but it is most useful to let conscience have free play , to consider what the end of life is , and why above us , yet in us , presides this mysterious judge , this secret spy which knows all our ' evil and corrupt affections ...
... fall in ; but it is most useful to let conscience have free play , to consider what the end of life is , and why above us , yet in us , presides this mysterious judge , this secret spy which knows all our ' evil and corrupt affections ...
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... falls it must lie , a dreadful voice will thus shout in his ear , — The dead past life has pass'd , and no more Can you act the old foolishness o'er ; You've your tally - ' tis ten and threescore , So take up the dark lamp , -come on ...
... falls it must lie , a dreadful voice will thus shout in his ear , — The dead past life has pass'd , and no more Can you act the old foolishness o'er ; You've your tally - ' tis ten and threescore , So take up the dark lamp , -come on ...
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... fall into a certain want , desuetude , and decay . When any great part of the nation is thus afflicted -as our present House of Lords seems afflicted — it will be well to cut and prune away that part , so that the other be not poisoned ...
... fall into a certain want , desuetude , and decay . When any great part of the nation is thus afflicted -as our present House of Lords seems afflicted — it will be well to cut and prune away that part , so that the other be not poisoned ...
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... fall in love with the real , actual living person they see . It may be exceedingly annoying to Jones , but it is quite true that his little wife loves an ideal Jones , some one whom her imagination dresses up as a far different and far ...
... fall in love with the real , actual living person they see . It may be exceedingly annoying to Jones , but it is quite true that his little wife loves an ideal Jones , some one whom her imagination dresses up as a far different and far ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.