Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 15Charles Dudley Warner International Society, 1896 - Literature |
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Page 5859
... never loved before : Let those who always loved now love the more . Contrast the original !. Cras amet qui nunquam amavit ; quique amavit cras amet ! ' Uhland , Volkslieder , ' i . 12 . ' Grundtvig , ' Danmarks Gamle Folkeviser , ' iii ...
... never loved before : Let those who always loved now love the more . Contrast the original !. Cras amet qui nunquam amavit ; quique amavit cras amet ! ' Uhland , Volkslieder , ' i . 12 . ' Grundtvig , ' Danmarks Gamle Folkeviser , ' iii ...
Page 5865
... never old : Full often at the fountain I knelt and quenched my drouth , — Yet tenfold rather would I kiss My darling's rosy mouth ! And in my darling's garden1 Is many a precious flower ; Oh , in this budding season , Would God ' twere ...
... never old : Full often at the fountain I knelt and quenched my drouth , — Yet tenfold rather would I kiss My darling's rosy mouth ! And in my darling's garden1 Is many a precious flower ; Oh , in this budding season , Would God ' twere ...
Page 5872
... never loved a love but one , and he's drowned in the sea . " O haud your tongue , my daughter dear , be still and be con- tent ; There are mair lads in Galloway , ye neen nae sair lament . " O there is none in Gallow , there's none at a ...
... never loved a love but one , and he's drowned in the sea . " O haud your tongue , my daughter dear , be still and be con- tent ; There are mair lads in Galloway , ye neen nae sair lament . " O there is none in Gallow , there's none at a ...
Page 5878
... he racked his clever brains to make a new hit . To accomplish this he was utterly unscrupulous , and never spared his friends or those to whom he was indebted , if he saw good material in their foibles . His SAMUEL FOOTE 1720-1777.
... he racked his clever brains to make a new hit . To accomplish this he was utterly unscrupulous , and never spared his friends or those to whom he was indebted , if he saw good material in their foibles . His SAMUEL FOOTE 1720-1777.
Page 5880
... never gave such a note . Jack - Defendant never saw plaintiff since the hour he was born ; but notwithstanding , they have three witnesses to prove a consideration and signing the note . Serjeant - They have ! Jack - He is puzzled what ...
... never gave such a note . Jack - Defendant never saw plaintiff since the hour he was born ; but notwithstanding , they have three witnesses to prove a consideration and signing the note . Serjeant - They have ! Jack - He is puzzled what ...
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Page 5963 - I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbid myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as certainly...
Page 5959 - I cross'd these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column...
Page 5938 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Page 5950 - I had made of the sense of all ages and nations. However, I resolved to be the better for the echo of it, and though I had at first determined to buy stuff for a new coat, I went away resolved to wear my old one a little longer.
Page 5950 - I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men.
Page 5960 - Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 5957 - We have an English proverb that says, " He that would thrive must ask his wife.
Page 6133 - He studieth his scholars' natures as carefully as they their books; and ranks their dispositions into several forms. And though it may seem difficult for him in a great school to descend to all particulars, yet experienced schoolmasters may quickly make a grammar of boys' natures, and reduce them all — saving some few exceptions — to these general rules : 1.
Page 5947 - Goods, but if you do not take Care, they will prove Evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may for less than they cost; but if you have no Occasion for them, they must be dear to you. Remember what Poor Richard says, Buy what thou hast no Need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
Page 6247 - How can they say that nature Has nothing made in vain; Why then beneath the water Should hideous rocks remain? No eyes the rocks discover, That lurk beneath the deep, To wreck the wand'ring lover, And leave the maid to weep.