Among the Goths and Vandals

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Рипол Классик, 1870
 

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Seite 40 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
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Seite 54 - There is a piece of foppery which is to be cautiously guarded against, the foppery of universality, of knowing all sciences and excelling in all arts — chemistry, mathematics, algebra, dancing, history, reasoning, riding, fencing, Low Dutch, High Dutch, and natural philosophy. In .short, the modern precept of education very often is, 'Take the Admirable Crichton for your model ; I would have you ignorant of nothing.
Seite 80 - And pondered refuge from his toil, By far Lochard or Aberfoyle. But nearer was the copse-wood grey, That waved and wept on Loch Achray, And mingled with the pine trees blue, On the bold cliffs of Ben-venue.
Seite 40 - How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Seite 272 - I reflect on what I have seen, what I have heard, and what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry...
Seite 102 - Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die. But leave us still our old Nobility.
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