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... then the story begins , the listener only awaiting her turn to pour her little chronicle of self into her neighbour's ears . They are all like two authors , who , not being rivals of each other , can afford to 12 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
... then the story begins , the listener only awaiting her turn to pour her little chronicle of self into her neighbour's ears . They are all like two authors , who , not being rivals of each other , can afford to 12 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
Page 51
... turn aside from his way to repress violence , to rescue innocence , and to punish the spirit of mischief , folly , and cruelty . Such a determination would be heroic at any time ; and happily we find the ideal E 2 THE HEROIC . 51.
... turn aside from his way to repress violence , to rescue innocence , and to punish the spirit of mischief , folly , and cruelty . Such a determination would be heroic at any time ; and happily we find the ideal E 2 THE HEROIC . 51.
Page 56
... turn from the sentimental goodness of Joseph Surface to the downright raking wickedness of Charles Surface . People could believe in one , but not in the other . It will be some years yet before the public really believes in the pattern ...
... turn from the sentimental goodness of Joseph Surface to the downright raking wickedness of Charles Surface . People could believe in one , but not in the other . It will be some years yet before the public really believes in the pattern ...
Page 100
... turn , into health and wit . ' It is worth little then ; it is never worth dishonest getting or disquieting oneself in vain for . There is arising in the midst of us a proposition for clipping the vast overgrown estates and of using the ...
... turn , into health and wit . ' It is worth little then ; it is never worth dishonest getting or disquieting oneself in vain for . There is arising in the midst of us a proposition for clipping the vast overgrown estates and of using the ...
Page 118
... through that god , from Bacchus his one sole wish - and that , of course , a foolish one - that all that he touched might turn to gold . Thoroughly was he cursed by the fruition of this wish , for the very 118 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
... through that god , from Bacchus his one sole wish - and that , of course , a foolish one - that all that he touched might turn to gold . Thoroughly was he cursed by the fruition of this wish , for the very 118 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
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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.