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... Telling me that my father was a worthy man , and that he hoped I should make just such another . " " Ah , that was kind of him . " " What a pile of books you are lugging ! Here , let me take half a dozen of them for you . You look as if ...
... Telling me that my father was a worthy man , and that he hoped I should make just such another . " " Ah , that was kind of him . " " What a pile of books you are lugging ! Here , let me take half a dozen of them for you . You look as if ...
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... tell you that I am tolerably well qualified to be a guide . " 66 " You do not look like a collegian . They are generally thin and pale with studying . " " Oftener with laziness and cigar smoke . " " Very likely . You seem too hardy and ...
... tell you that I am tolerably well qualified to be a guide . " 66 " You do not look like a collegian . They are generally thin and pale with studying . " " Oftener with laziness and cigar smoke . " " Very likely . You seem too hardy and ...
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... tell you so ? " " Not that I remember . " " Please to explain , colonel , what you expect to gain by always bobbing about as you do , like a drop 2 * VASSALL MORTON . 17 to which Mr. Edward Meredith, rising and going to ...
... tell you so ? " " Not that I remember . " " Please to explain , colonel , what you expect to gain by always bobbing about as you do , like a drop 2 * VASSALL MORTON . 17 to which Mr. Edward Meredith, rising and going to ...
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... tell you , boys , " said Meredith , who was tranquilly puff- ing at his cigar , " the cream of our lives is skimmed already .. Rough and tumble , hurry and worry - that will be the story with most of us , more or less , to the end of ...
... tell you , boys , " said Meredith , who was tranquilly puff- ing at his cigar , " the cream of our lives is skimmed already .. Rough and tumble , hurry and worry - that will be the story with most of us , more or less , to the end of ...
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... tell it willingly , if I knew any . " " Have the Primroses come home from Europe yet ? " " Yes . " " And the Everills ? " " I believe not . " " Nor the Leslies , I suppose . " " For a reasonably sensible and straightforward fellow , you ...
... tell it willingly , if I knew any . " " Have the Primroses come home from Europe yet ? " " Yes . " " And the Everills ? " " I believe not . " " Nor the Leslies , I suppose . " " For a reasonably sensible and straightforward fellow , you ...
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Page 135 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 349 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 317 - We twain have met like ships upon the sea, Who hold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet ; • One little hour ! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.
Page 367 - Nought's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content : 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
Page 62 - But when he came, though pale and wan, He looked so great and high, So noble was his manly front, So calm his steadfast eye ; — The rabble rout forbore to shout, And each man held his breath, For well they knew the hero's soul Was face to face with death.
Page 22 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 60 - I'll never love thee more. Like Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone, My thoughts shall evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That puts it not unto the touch, To win or lose it all.
Page 393 - Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now.
Page 62 - God ! that ghastly gibbet ! how dismal 'tis to see The great, tall, spectral skeleton, the ladder and the tree ! Hark ! hark ! it is the clash of arms, the bells begin to toll — He is coming ! he is coming ! God's mercy on his soul...
Page 61 - I'll serve thee in such noble ways Was never heard before ; I'll crown and deck thee all with bays, And love thee evermore.