The Living Age, Band 226Living Age Company, 1900 |
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... never quite be unlearnt again . " Penny wise and pound foolish , " - one of the few utterances on the other side of the question - sometimes arises to stagger and confuse us by confronting us with an admonition entirely opposite to ...
... never quite be unlearnt again . " Penny wise and pound foolish , " - one of the few utterances on the other side of the question - sometimes arises to stagger and confuse us by confronting us with an admonition entirely opposite to ...
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... never mind , And you'd be glad to have us go ; There nobody would be unkind- For you dislike your children so . " Then mother turned , and looked quite red- I do not think she could have heard ; She put me off her knee instead Of ...
... never mind , And you'd be glad to have us go ; There nobody would be unkind- For you dislike your children so . " Then mother turned , and looked quite red- I do not think she could have heard ; She put me off her knee instead Of ...
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... never speak or act without weighing the probable moral effect of his word or action would be simply intolerable ; but his neighbors would , in all likelihood , never find him out ; they would simply put him down as a bore . Now , one of ...
... never speak or act without weighing the probable moral effect of his word or action would be simply intolerable ; but his neighbors would , in all likelihood , never find him out ; they would simply put him down as a bore . Now , one of ...
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... never came back again . Then some one stopped the en- gines , and a pulsatory roar of escaping steam drowned all other sound , while a bare - headed officer shouted himself hoarse in an effort to restore order . Presently the grinding ...
... never came back again . Then some one stopped the en- gines , and a pulsatory roar of escaping steam drowned all other sound , while a bare - headed officer shouted himself hoarse in an effort to restore order . Presently the grinding ...
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... never once looked up from the loculus or sideboard , on which one was laying out papers , and the other counting them carefully . My guide's hold became a grip . He , too , could see and be aston- ished . The cloaked person smoothing ...
... never once looked up from the loculus or sideboard , on which one was laying out papers , and the other counting them carefully . My guide's hold became a grip . He , too , could see and be aston- ished . The cloaked person smoothing ...
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A. C. McClurg Aconcagua Afghanistan appear beautiful British called century character child China Chinese course Cowper crabs d'Epinay Danby dark dead death Dora doubt Emperor England English expression eyes face fact feel flowers foreign France French garden German give Government hand head heard heart Herat human imagination interest kind Kurtz lady Lethbridge LIVING AGE looked Lord Lord John Russell Lord Salisbury Louise Madame Madame d'Epinay Maid of Sker Mary Kingsley matter means ment miles mind Molière mother ness never night once Peking perhaps person phrase poet political present river round Russia S. S. McClure Santa Fiora seemed Shakespeare side soul speak stood talk tell things thought tion ture turned voice Whig whole woman word write young Zurbriggen
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 463 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Seite 182 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Seite 25 - ... wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you - you so remote from the night of first ages - could comprehend. And why not? The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Seite 356 - So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.
Seite 356 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment.
Seite 182 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Seite 356 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object; can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Seite 183 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Seite 148 - Ne nous emportons point contre les hommes , en voyant leur dureté, leur ingratitude, leur injustice, leur fierté, l'amour d'eux-mêmes, et l'oubli des autres; ils sont ainsi faits, c'est leur nature : c'est ne pouvoir supporter que la pierre tombe, ou que le feu s'élève.
Seite 15 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.