Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, 16. kötet,136. kiadás -18. kötet,160. kiadásWilliam Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1847 |
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29. oldal
... never saw him more full of intellectual vigour and colloquial animation- never more delightful or more instructive , than in his last visit to Scotland in the autumn of 1817. Indeed it was after that time that he applied himself , with ...
... never saw him more full of intellectual vigour and colloquial animation- never more delightful or more instructive , than in his last visit to Scotland in the autumn of 1817. Indeed it was after that time that he applied himself , with ...
. oldal
... never see or hear again . In his eighty - first year , the alert , kind , benevolent old man , had his attention at every one's question , his information at every one's command . His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject . One ...
... never see or hear again . In his eighty - first year , the alert , kind , benevolent old man , had his attention at every one's question , his information at every one's command . His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject . One ...
25. oldal
... Never were soldiers so eager for their desperate work ; and never did general , with such cool resoluteness , issue orders of such astounding tenor . " The fort of Badajoz is to be attacked at ten o'clock this night . The attack must be ...
... Never were soldiers so eager for their desperate work ; and never did general , with such cool resoluteness , issue orders of such astounding tenor . " The fort of Badajoz is to be attacked at ten o'clock this night . The attack must be ...
2. oldal
... never too late to endeavour at least to correct a defect or a vice which compromises both our own well - being and that of those who depend on us . Yes , my friend , let us have but the will , and we may at any age eradi- cate evil ...
... never too late to endeavour at least to correct a defect or a vice which compromises both our own well - being and that of those who depend on us . Yes , my friend , let us have but the will , and we may at any age eradi- cate evil ...
7. oldal
... never repented of in my life is having taken her for a wife . Yes , sir , if it was to do over again , I would do it again . I say so to her every day ; and I have said so to her at a time when we were so unhappy , that the greatest ...
... never repented of in my life is having taken her for a wife . Yes , sir , if it was to do over again , I would do it again . I say so to her every day ; and I have said so to her at a time when we were so unhappy , that the greatest ...
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9. oldal - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
28. oldal - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies ; A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
11. oldal - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on Kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
15. oldal - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
20. oldal - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial, endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me?
6. oldal - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
27. oldal - Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw. 0 make in me those civil wars to cease: 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
9. oldal - Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun...