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Pagina 5
... hand ; " while Gerald's character , we fear , is aptly enough summed up in the harsh and invidious epithets of pleurnicheur and " prig . " To resume the story : Gerald and Venniker share a room at St. Anselm's - a scantily furnished ...
... hand ; " while Gerald's character , we fear , is aptly enough summed up in the harsh and invidious epithets of pleurnicheur and " prig . " To resume the story : Gerald and Venniker share a room at St. Anselm's - a scantily furnished ...
Pagina 13
... hand and mind were guided by a sense of fine poetry in adjusting his mechanism to solemnly measure out time ; and ere the finished watch passed from his hands it had become a lovable thing from which he parted with regret . There was ...
... hand and mind were guided by a sense of fine poetry in adjusting his mechanism to solemnly measure out time ; and ere the finished watch passed from his hands it had become a lovable thing from which he parted with regret . There was ...
Pagina 16
... hand on his arm , " leave it so , I wish it . " In silence he refixed the hands , attached the pendulum and the weights . " How long has it been standing ? " he asked . " Two days . " " How many hours ? " " You can reckon from nine o ...
... hand on his arm , " leave it so , I wish it . " In silence he refixed the hands , attached the pendulum and the weights . " How long has it been standing ? " he asked . " Two days . " " How many hours ? " " You can reckon from nine o ...
Pagina 17
... hand quickly and it touched his . " Do you see ? " he asked . " Yes . " like a spirit in pain , " he said . By the thin light of the taper they could see another cover of dark wood , in the centre of which was a sunken brass handle ...
... hand quickly and it touched his . " Do you see ? " he asked . " Yes . " like a spirit in pain , " he said . By the thin light of the taper they could see another cover of dark wood , in the centre of which was a sunken brass handle ...
Pagina 18
... hands as she stood frightened and motionless , put them into his pockets . The door opened and a tall , dark , French - looking woman entered . Thomas , with the lighted taper in his hand , made as if he were still en- gaged in ...
... hands as she stood frightened and motionless , put them into his pockets . The door opened and a tall , dark , French - looking woman entered . Thomas , with the lighted taper in his hand , made as if he were still en- gaged in ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 144 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Pagina 284 - Restraining prayer, we cease to fight . Prayer makes the Christian's armour bright ; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
Pagina 141 - I gained gifts and goodly grace Of that great lord, which therein wont to dwell, Whose want too well now feels my friendless case; But ah!
Pagina 345 - ... Gay raiment, sparkling gauds, elation strong. A prop gave way ! crash fell a platform ! lo, 'Mid struggling sufferers, hurt to death, she lay ! Shuddering, they drew her garments off — and found A robe of sackcloth next the smooth, white skin. Such, poets, is your bride, the Muse ! young, gay, Radiant, adorn'd outside ; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within.
Pagina 408 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
Pagina 589 - The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside...
Pagina 516 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing : When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.
Pagina 585 - ... in the full blaze of his majesty, up rose the sun; than which one object alone -in this lower creation could be more glorious, and that Mr. Allworthy himself presented, — a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator, by doing most good to his creatures.
Pagina 477 - But it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Pagina 515 - Cripplegate mould. Coleridge is just dead, having lived just long enough to close the eyes of Wordsworth, who paid the debt to nature but a week or two before — poor Col., but two days before he died, he wrote to a bookseller proposing an epic poem on the " Wanderings of Cain,