Good Company, Volume 5

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Good Company, 1880
 

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Pagina 32 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose, The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare ; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Pagina 433 - IF thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say ' I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way Of speaking gently, . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought Asenseof pleasant ease on such a day...
Pagina 199 - In expressing our unaffected and profound sympathy with the citizens of the United States on this untimely end of their elected chief, let us not, therefore, sanction any feeling of depression, but rather let us express a fervent hope that from out of the awful trials of the last four years, of which the least is not this violent demise, the...
Pagina 379 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Pagina 51 - The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
Pagina 111 - And I have seen thee blossoming Beside the snow-bank's edges cold. Thy parent sun', who bade thee view Pale skies', and chilling moisture sip', Has bathed thee in his own bright hue', And streaked with jet thy glowing lip.
Pagina 272 - On one occasion we disturbed a large colony, and the ducks all left the nests. I sent my Eskimos away to another island. while I remained behind to see how the ducks would act when they returned. As soon as the boat was gone they began to return to their nests, both males and females. It was very amusing to see a male alight beside a nest, and with a satisfied air settle himself down on the eggs, when suddenly a female would come to the same nest and inform him that he had made a mistake, — it...
Pagina 199 - ... the least is not this violent demise, the various populations of North America may issue elevated and chastened, rich with the accumulated wisdom and strong in the disciplined energy which a young nation can only acquire in a protracted and perilous struggle; then they will be enabled not merely to renew their career of power and prosperity, but they will renew it to contribute to the general happiness of mankind.
Pagina 549 - His highness's attendants are not to steal any lock or keys, tables, forms, cupboards, or other furniture, out of nobleman's or gentleman's houses, where they go to visit. Master cooks shall not employ such scullions as go about naked, or lie all night on the ground, before the kitchen fire.
Pagina 433 - Except for love's sake only. Do not say " I love her for her smile, her look, her way Of speaking gently, — - for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day.

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