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... thought several times when I was fast with you , and was apt now and then to look upon myself like Phædo . " " That night be , but you must not expect me to say any thing like Socrates at present . " - The same . " The thing that I ...
... thought several times when I was fast with you , and was apt now and then to look upon myself like Phædo . " " That night be , but you must not expect me to say any thing like Socrates at present . " - The same . " The thing that I ...
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... thought it a pity that a Jew's gold should be given to the sharks , and recommended that he should be taken on deck and the money squeezed out of him : - The wind by this time having sensibly abated , the pro- posal was approved of by ...
... thought it a pity that a Jew's gold should be given to the sharks , and recommended that he should be taken on deck and the money squeezed out of him : - The wind by this time having sensibly abated , the pro- posal was approved of by ...
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... thought your race had loved no- thing , save their money - bags . " 66 that " We shall see that , " said Front de Bœuf , " for by the blessed rood , which is the abomination of thy accursed tribe , thou shalt feel the extremities of ...
... thought your race had loved no- thing , save their money - bags . " 66 that " We shall see that , " said Front de Bœuf , " for by the blessed rood , which is the abomination of thy accursed tribe , thou shalt feel the extremities of ...
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... thought , for which I am indebted to his instruc- tion ! ence , and directed me , a poor , ignorant , wandering traveller , to the illuminated temple of learning . These are favours which I ought well to appreciate , and for which I ...
... thought , for which I am indebted to his instruc- tion ! ence , and directed me , a poor , ignorant , wandering traveller , to the illuminated temple of learning . These are favours which I ought well to appreciate , and for which I ...
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... thought o'er his happiness wings its swift flight ? Joy to the mother ! -Her perils are past ; See , she clasps her ... thoughts ! Thou art the offspring of deep meditation , Of tender feeling , and of generous love ; Thou canst exalt ...
... thought o'er his happiness wings its swift flight ? Joy to the mother ! -Her perils are past ; See , she clasps her ... thoughts ! Thou art the offspring of deep meditation , Of tender feeling , and of generous love ; Thou canst exalt ...
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Página 178 - Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of the ocean, would be another theme of idle speculation. How interesting this fragment of a world, hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence!
Página 179 - When every worldly maxim arrayed itself against him; when blasted in fortune, and disgrace and danger darkened around his name, she loved him the more ardently for his very sufferings. If, then, his fate could awaken the sympathy even of his foes, what must have been the agony of her, whose whole soul was occupied by his image? Let those tell who have had the portals of the tomb suddenly closed between them and the being they most loved on earth — who have sat at its threshold, as one shut out...
Página 179 - ... roof. But could the sympathy and kind offices of friends have reached a spirit so shocked and driven in by horror, she would have experienced no want of consolation, for the Irish are a people of quick and generous sensibilities. The most delicate and cherishing attentions were paid her by families of wealth and distinction.
Página 19 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 178 - At sea everything that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention. It proved to be the mast of a ship that must have been completely wrecked ; for there were the remains of handkerchiefs by which some of the crew had fastened themselves to this spar to prevent their being washed off by the waves.
Página 285 - And when he was asked the reason of so committing this trust, he answered to this effect : — that there was no absolute certainty in human affairs ; but, for his part, he found less corruption in such a body of citizens than in any other order or degree of mankind...
Página 48 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely, been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 18 - As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing. When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. We showed it to Congreve ; who, after reading it over, said, it would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly.
Página 178 - What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home! How often has the...
Página 179 - ... always shy and silent. Even when fortunate, she scarcely breathes it to herself; but when otherwise, she buries it in the recesses of her bosom, and there lets it cower and brood among the ruins of her peace With her the desire of the heart has failed. The great charm of existence is at an end. She neglects all the cheerful exercises •which gladden the spirits', quicken the...