Eastford; Or, Household Sketches

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Crocker & Brewster, 1855 - 328 páginas

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Página 25 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise,— The son of parents passed into the skies!
Página 44 - In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Página 154 - The happiness of the world is the concern of him who is the Lord and the Proprietor of it ; nor do we know what we are about, when we endeavour to promote the good of mankind in any ways but those which he has directed ; that is, indeed, in all ways not contrary to veracity and justice.
Página 271 - Alas! Love, I would thou couldst as well defend thyself as thou canst offend others! I would those on whom thou dost attend could either put thee away, or yield good reason why they keep thee! But grant love of beauty to be a beastly fault, although...
Página 200 - If none regard; heaven wakes with all his eyes, Whom to behold but thee, nature's desire? In whose sight all things joy with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.
Página 180 - Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
Página 69 - How oft by these at sixty are undone The virtues of a saint at twenty-one! To whom can riches give repute or trust, Content, or pleasure, but the good and just?
Página 79 - Adversity is like the period of the former and of the latter rain — cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from that season have their birth the flower and the fruit — the date, the rose, and the pomegranate.
Página 212 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Página 248 - ... me no more : what answer should I give ? I love not hollow cheek or faded eye : Yet, O my friend, I will not have thee die ! Ask me no more, lest I should bid thee live ; Ask me no more.

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