Random Shots and Southern Breezes: Containing Critical Remarks on the Southern States and Southern Institutions, with Semi-serious Observations on Men and Manners, Band 1Harper and brothers, 1842 - 230 Seiten |
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Random Shots and Southern Breezes: Containing Critical Remarks on ..., Band 1 Louis Tasistro Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2012 |
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Seite 130 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Seite 132 - I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions?
Seite 232 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Seite 120 - The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top to bottom, and all around, may perhaps be imagined, but can never be described, and by me can never be forgotten.
Seite 164 - I slept the next night well, was free and merry ; I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips : He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all.
Seite 135 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont, Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up.
Seite 201 - Play among other children I despised, and when I was forced to entertain such as came to visit me, I tired them with more grave instructions than their mothers, and plucked all their babies to pieces, and kept the children in such awe, that they were glad when I entertained myself with elder company...
Seite 201 - I was very acceptable, and living in the house with many persons that had a great deal of wit, and very profitable serious discourses being frequent at my father's table and in my mother's drawing-room, I was very attentive to all and gathered up things that I would utter again to great admiration of many that took my memory and imitation for wit.
Seite 202 - As a general hint, there was much wisdom in the advice given by an old mother to a young one: "Stimulate the sensibility of your boys, and blunt that of your girls.
Seite 82 - Tell John to set the kettle on I mean to take a drive; I only want to go to Rome, And shall be back by five. Tell cook to dress those...