Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man: Consisting of the Little Genius, and Other Essays, Band 1

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J. & J. Harper, 1832
 

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Seite 195 - O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth' live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Seite 34 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Seite 46 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Seite 195 - For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part ; Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. Two such opposed foes encamp them still In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will ; 28 And where the worser is predominant, Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.
Seite 46 - Proud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement : but I would have you know, that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by God I will immediately unfrock you. Yours, as you demean yourself, Elizabeth.
Seite 46 - I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement; but I would have you to know, that I who made you what you are can unmake you; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by God I will immediately unfrock you. " Yours as you demean yourself,
Seite 75 - Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleekheaded men, and such as sleep o'nights : Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Seite 94 - They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook : Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow-dragging some, With various hand proportion'd to their force.
Seite 151 - ... would really have made himself rich as Croesus, and me also, (for I always shared with him,) if it had not happened, most unluckily, that just at the moment he was about to realize all his ardent hopes, he wanted more money to perfect the scheme than could possibly be obtained. It was one of these glorious speculations that ruined my brother and me. He died of a broken heart. Heaven bless him, I say. But the usurer who bought of him my lent notes at thirty per cent, discount, by combining with...
Seite 173 - Calling. Tales in Verse by Mr. Durfey : bound in red leather, gilt on the back, and doubled down in several places. All the Classic Authors in Wood. A set of Elzevirs by the same Hand. Clelia : which opened of itself in the place that describes two lovers in a bower.

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