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... DUTY , " ETC. " Is not a life well spent A child's play - garden , lent For Heaven's high trust to train young heart and limb ? ” LYRA INNOCENTIUM . LONDON : JOSEPH MASTERS , ALDERSGATE STREET , AND NEW BOND STREET . MDCCCLX . 249.4.277 ...
... DUTY , " ETC. " Is not a life well spent A child's play - garden , lent For Heaven's high trust to train young heart and limb ? ” LYRA INNOCENTIUM . LONDON : JOSEPH MASTERS , ALDERSGATE STREET , AND NEW BOND STREET . MDCCCLX . 249.4.277 ...
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... duty must not be forgotten ; she might amuse her- self with any book or sport she fancied so long as her parents approved of it : once forbidden , it must never be thought of again . Masters came over from the adjoining town of North ...
... duty must not be forgotten ; she might amuse her- self with any book or sport she fancied so long as her parents approved of it : once forbidden , it must never be thought of again . Masters came over from the adjoining town of North ...
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... duty for armour . At another time they would be O'Donoghue and his bride , with the little boys for their retainers ; at another , a Crusader and his little footpage ; and so on through an endless diversity of scenes in which the ...
... duty for armour . At another time they would be O'Donoghue and his bride , with the little boys for their retainers ; at another , a Crusader and his little footpage ; and so on through an endless diversity of scenes in which the ...
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... duty to give up . His ' duty , ' for though but a little while before , that word had seemed to him the embodiment of everything tame and formal , and tiresome , he was now just beginning to recognize it as the watchword of all gallant ...
... duty to give up . His ' duty , ' for though but a little while before , that word had seemed to him the embodiment of everything tame and formal , and tiresome , he was now just beginning to recognize it as the watchword of all gallant ...
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Florence Wilford. CHAPTER IV . " Duty like a stern preceptor , Sometimes frowns or seems to frown , Choose her thistles for thy sceptre , While youth's roses are thy crown . " WORDSWORTH . ONE afternoon that Mr. Merivale was seated in Mr ...
Florence Wilford. CHAPTER IV . " Duty like a stern preceptor , Sometimes frowns or seems to frown , Choose her thistles for thy sceptre , While youth's roses are thy crown . " WORDSWORTH . ONE afternoon that Mr. Merivale was seated in Mr ...
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Page 303 - He gave us eyes to see them, and lips that we might tell how great is God almighty, who has made all things well...
Page 172 - ... cold dispute Of what is fit, and not. Forsake thy cage, Thy rope of sands, Which petty thoughts have made, and made to thee Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see. Away; take heed: I will abroad. Call in thy death's head there: tie up thy fears. He that forbears To suit and serve his need, Deserves his load. But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild At every word, Methought I heard one calling, Child. And I replied, My Lord.
Page 172 - THE COLLAR I STRUCK the board, and cried, no more; I will abroad. What? shall I ever sigh and pine? My lines and life are free ; free as the road, Loose as the wind, as large as store. , Shall I be still in suit? Have I no harvest but a thorn To let me blood, and not restore What I have lost with cordial fruit? Sure there was wine, Before my sighs did dry it : there was corn, Before my tears did drown it. Is the year only lost to me? Have I no bays to crown...
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Page 68 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.