Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaLippincott, 1874 - 864 páginas |
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... Sleep - Curious Chinese Torture - Do Fishes ever Sleep ? -How a Bird Grasps his Perch when A sleep - How to gain Seven Years and a half of Life - Effects of Opium and Indian Hemp - Confes- sion of an English Opium - Eater —Strange ...
... Sleep - Curious Chinese Torture - Do Fishes ever Sleep ? -How a Bird Grasps his Perch when A sleep - How to gain Seven Years and a half of Life - Effects of Opium and Indian Hemp - Confes- sion of an English Opium - Eater —Strange ...
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... Sleep " -A Man who Wrote Long Epitaphs - The Fool and the Poet- " Dum Vivimus Vivamus " -Dr . Johnson and Molly Ashton - A Know- Nothing - Epigram on " Our Bed " —On a Late Repentance - A Pale Lady with a Red - Nosed Husband ...
... Sleep " -A Man who Wrote Long Epitaphs - The Fool and the Poet- " Dum Vivimus Vivamus " -Dr . Johnson and Molly Ashton - A Know- Nothing - Epigram on " Our Bed " —On a Late Repentance - A Pale Lady with a Red - Nosed Husband ...
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... sleep . There he met the meek , the gentle Eve : she tended her sheep , she ever neglected self : she never heeded pelf , yet she heeded the shepherds even less . Nevertheless , her cheek reddened when she met Stephen ; yet decent ...
... sleep . There he met the meek , the gentle Eve : she tended her sheep , she ever neglected self : she never heeded pelf , yet she heeded the shepherds even less . Nevertheless , her cheek reddened when she met Stephen ; yet decent ...
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... sleep , to antic plays And toys , until the first stage end ; 12 waning moons , twice 5 times told , we give To unrecovered loss : we rather breathe than live . WE SPEND A ten years ' breath Before we apprehend What ' tis to live in ...
... sleep , to antic plays And toys , until the first stage end ; 12 waning moons , twice 5 times told , we give To unrecovered loss : we rather breathe than live . WE SPEND A ten years ' breath Before we apprehend What ' tis to live in ...
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... sleep behold a sinner weep . my God ! my faults , though great een thy mercy - seat rown , since we are taught , Thou , Lord ! remember est th ne , If thou beest sought I co Than me wh not , Lord , wit h any o at I by my S a viour Ch Be ...
... sleep behold a sinner weep . my God ! my faults , though great een thy mercy - seat rown , since we are taught , Thou , Lord ! remember est th ne , If thou beest sought I co Than me wh not , Lord , wit h any o at I by my S a viour Ch Be ...
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Página 521 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 125 - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad : But when the planets In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea ! shaking of earth ! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
Página 783 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."* — Church History.
Página 412 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
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Página 269 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Página 231 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.