Sketches from Life, Band 2H. Colburn, 1846 |
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Seite 222 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, where were they?
Seite 239 - I pray you, speak not ; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him : at once, good night : — Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
Seite 369 - One fatal remembrance, one sorrow that throws Its bleak shade alike o'er our joys and our woes, To which life nothing darker or brighter can bring, For which joy has no balm and affliction no sting...
Seite 180 - He took three extra glasses of Madeira without washing down the obstinate doubt that threatened to become an impediment to his ever speaking again with any confidence or comfort. Naturally fond of music, which he could have enjoyed at all hours but for the single drawback of not being able to hear a note, he resorted for solace to his music-book, and began to read. The effort was unsuccessful — -a solitary crotchet, harsh and horrid, having taken possession of his mind. He drew his chair to the...
Seite 127 - That curse shall be Forgiveness. — Have I not — Hear me, my mother Earth ! behold it, Heaven !— Have I not had to wrestle with my lot? Have I not...
Seite 394 - And falling and brawling and sprawling, And driving and riving and striving, And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling, And sounding and bounding and rounding, And bubbling and troubling and doubling, And grumbling and rumbling and tumbling...
Seite 110 - Another invitation — to dine with a regiment of roast-beef eaters, at Clapham. I declined this also, for the above reason, and for one other, viz. , that, on dining there ten Christmas Days ago, it was discovered, on sitting down, that one little accompaniment of the roast beef had been entirely overlooked. Would it be believed !— but I will not stay to mystify — I merely mention the fact. They had forgotten the horseradish. The next day arrived, and with it a neat epistle, sealed with violet-colored...
Seite 114 - ... protracted a piece of politeness. No : my triumph would have been to have annihilated them with an engagement made in September, payable three months after date. With these feelings I gave an agitated knock —they were stoning the plums, and did not immediately attend. I...
Seite 115 - Brobdignag; had she desired me to show her the North Pole, or the meaning of a melodrama; any or all of these I might have accomplished. But to request me to define my dinner; to inquire into its latitude ; to compel me to fathom that sea of appetite which I now felt rushing through...
Seite 224 - Portions of the external world have been exquisitely adapted to this inborn love of the beautiful, by Him who has so clothed the lilies of the field that they outshine Solomon in all his glory. This sentiment may be too much or too little cultivated; — so little as to make...