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... never before been ten leagues from home . I had a hundred and twenty pieces of gold in my purse , and I felt as if the world , and all its wealth , and all it could yield of pleasure , were at my disposal . Nothing occurred to disturb ...
... never before been ten leagues from home . I had a hundred and twenty pieces of gold in my purse , and I felt as if the world , and all its wealth , and all it could yield of pleasure , were at my disposal . Nothing occurred to disturb ...
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... never taken the trouble to decypher it . " Then , " said I , " if my accuser be in the right , and the ring his , I must have been able in one moment , and that a moment of struggle , to perceive what he has never discovered even ...
... never taken the trouble to decypher it . " Then , " said I , " if my accuser be in the right , and the ring his , I must have been able in one moment , and that a moment of struggle , to perceive what he has never discovered even ...
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... never nestles itself in a fickle bosom . Bastien knew that he was the favoured swain from the innocent and playful familiarity of his mistress . He says in the first verse that she is " de bonne foi , " and that she was incapable of ...
... never nestles itself in a fickle bosom . Bastien knew that he was the favoured swain from the innocent and playful familiarity of his mistress . He says in the first verse that she is " de bonne foi , " and that she was incapable of ...
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... never be dried ; and a variety of com- mon operations , which now conduce to our convenience and comfort , could never be carried on . In the operation of these laws , we see strikingly displayed the infinite wisdom of the Creator ...
... never be dried ; and a variety of com- mon operations , which now conduce to our convenience and comfort , could never be carried on . In the operation of these laws , we see strikingly displayed the infinite wisdom of the Creator ...
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... never resided in the Channel Islands , may require to be told that a " Billet d'État " is an official document issued by the president of the States previously to their convocation , and which contains a list of the subjects on which ...
... never resided in the Channel Islands , may require to be told that a " Billet d'État " is an official document issued by the president of the States previously to their convocation , and which contains a list of the subjects on which ...
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Página 5 - While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze...
Página 265 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Página 108 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 366 - Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain; But since of late, Elizabeth And, later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been.
Página 332 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize — More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
Página 46 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, " Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, Creator of heaven and earth...
Página 46 - And Abraham arose and met him, and said unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and thou shalt arise early in the morning, and go on thy way.
Página 332 - But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment, tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Página 109 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 332 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all.