Waifs: a Handful of Essays and SketchesJ. Maclehose, 1881 - 206 páginas |
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... strong as an Alpine cataract , and now soft and low as- " The noise of a hidden brook , In the leafy month of June , That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune , ' so that they have become " music married to immortal ...
... strong as an Alpine cataract , and now soft and low as- " The noise of a hidden brook , In the leafy month of June , That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune , ' so that they have become " music married to immortal ...
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... strong - limbed navvies , looking as if they had just been dug out of the Old Red Sand- stone ; and grim mechanics , with whiskers full of iron filings , may procure their weekly stubble removed by the ( Saturday ) Knight of the Razor ...
... strong - limbed navvies , looking as if they had just been dug out of the Old Red Sand- stone ; and grim mechanics , with whiskers full of iron filings , may procure their weekly stubble removed by the ( Saturday ) Knight of the Razor ...
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... strong resemblance to Dr. Johnson , and who is touched with much of the humour of the melancholy Jacques ( was Jacques melancholy or merely waggish ? ) , called my attention to the subject , and I remember we had many a hearty guffaw at ...
... strong resemblance to Dr. Johnson , and who is touched with much of the humour of the melancholy Jacques ( was Jacques melancholy or merely waggish ? ) , called my attention to the subject , and I remember we had many a hearty guffaw at ...
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... in their youth , from which they had never recovered , and which old age had only aggravated . They exhibit , however , no signs of decrepitude , and the old bones of them look firm enough and strong enough to A RAINY DAY AT ABERFOYLE . 53.
... in their youth , from which they had never recovered , and which old age had only aggravated . They exhibit , however , no signs of decrepitude , and the old bones of them look firm enough and strong enough to A RAINY DAY AT ABERFOYLE . 53.
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... strong and high wattle fences , meant , I suppose , for the protection of the game , and the construction of which , judging from the thickness of the wattles , must have been as laborious an operation as the building of any dry - stone ...
... strong and high wattle fences , meant , I suppose , for the protection of the game , and the construction of which , judging from the thickness of the wattles , must have been as laborious an operation as the building of any dry - stone ...
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Página 194 - With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much...
Página 116 - Why should a man whose blood is warm within Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster...
Página 139 - Two sudden blows with a ragged stick And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife — And then the deed was done: There was nothing ly,ing at my foot, But lifeless flesh and bone!
Página 57 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary...
Página 12 - Let him that stole steal no more : but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Página 57 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
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Página 93 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Página 103 - I saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Página 148 - Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old To the very verge of the church-yard mould ; Price of many a crime untold : Gold! gold! gold! gold! Good or bad a thousand-fold ! How widely its agencies vary — To save — to ruin — to curse — to bless — As even its minted coins express, Now stamped with the image of good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.