Cheerful thoughts of a cheery philosopher, Volumen2S. Low, Marston, 1894 |
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... so you may also find your way out by yourselves . ' With loud laughter their guides deserted them , and they were left in mute astonishment to · observe the receding lights and laughter . This practical joke IN THE ' DUKERIES . ' II.
... so you may also find your way out by yourselves . ' With loud laughter their guides deserted them , and they were left in mute astonishment to · observe the receding lights and laughter . This practical joke IN THE ' DUKERIES . ' II.
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Frederick Arnold. observe the receding lights and laughter . This practical joke was designed to teach them a great moral lesson against trespassing . How they applied the lesson , and how they escaped from the dilemma , was not told in ...
Frederick Arnold. observe the receding lights and laughter . This practical joke was designed to teach them a great moral lesson against trespassing . How they applied the lesson , and how they escaped from the dilemma , was not told in ...
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... observing that various surreptitious peeps were taken of him by the people of the place , and compliments were freely passed on his magnificent brow , his intellectual eyes , and his wildly poetic hair . My friend was doubtless ...
... observing that various surreptitious peeps were taken of him by the people of the place , and compliments were freely passed on his magnificent brow , his intellectual eyes , and his wildly poetic hair . My friend was doubtless ...
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... observe the outlet beneath the woods . Clevedon doubtless belongs the scenery of the poem- ' Break , break , break On thy cold grey crags , O Sea . ' To There is the little bay retreating from the channel just below the church , where ...
... observe the outlet beneath the woods . Clevedon doubtless belongs the scenery of the poem- ' Break , break , break On thy cold grey crags , O Sea . ' To There is the little bay retreating from the channel just below the church , where ...
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... observation , which is as much as most true Peripatetics have ever been able to do . Without being an alarmist , it is curious to note how , in some respects , this country is repeating 40 ON CERTAIN TENDENCIES IN LITERATURE AND POLITICS,
... observation , which is as much as most true Peripatetics have ever been able to do . Without being an alarmist , it is curious to note how , in some respects , this country is repeating 40 ON CERTAIN TENDENCIES IN LITERATURE AND POLITICS,
Términos y frases comunes
Aglaïa beautiful beer better bitter beer brain Brindisi Bristol Channel British called carriage Charles Kingsley charm cheap Christmas Day Christmastide church Clevedon climate clubs coast comfort committee course Crummock Water delightful dinner Dukeries dyspepsia England English Ennerdale expense eyes fact fashionable feeling fish friends give governess guineas Gulf Stream hand holiday immense interest invalids island kind Kingsley knew late literary living London Long Vacation look Lord matter mind Moulton nature never night once parliamentary train Penzance perhaps pleasant pleasure poor preachers pretty quiet railway reason rest scenery Scilly Isles seaside seems sermons sleep Smith social society sort story summer sure tables d'hôte talk taste teetotal things thought tion Torquay tour tourists town walk waterfall watering-place winter wonderful young ladies
Pasajes populares
Página 198 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Página 262 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit Accordingly he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Página 283 - Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But . teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Página 2 - O give us the man who sings at his work ; be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time — he will do it better — he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.
Página 41 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, The part that kings or IIHVB can caneo or care I ' "Now, the truth is, that kings or laws can cause or cure...
Página 274 - We cannot all have our gardens now, nor our pleasant fields to meditate in at eventide. Then the function of our architecture is, as far as may be, to replace these; to tell us about Nature; to possess us with memories of her quietness; to be solemn and full of tenderness, like her, and rich in portraitures of her; full of delicate imagery of the flowers we can no more gather, and of the living creatures now far away from us in their own solitude.
Página 2 - The way to this, is to keep our bodies in exercise,. our minds at ease' That insipid state wherein neither are in vigour, is not to be accounted any part of our portion of being. When we are in the satisfaction of some innocent pleasure, or pursuit of some laudable design, we are in the possession of life, of human life. Fortune will give us disappointments enough, and nature is attended with infirmities enough, without our adding to the unhappy side of our account by our spleen or illhumour.
Página 258 - So that, until the servants and ministers of the living God do pass the limits of pulpit theology and pulpit exhortation, and take weapons in their hand, gathered out of every region in which the life of man or his faculties are interested...
Página 274 - We are forced, for the sake of accumulating our power and knowledge, to live in cities : but such advantage as we have in association with each other is in great part counterbalanced by our loss of fellowship with nature. We cannot all have our gardens now, nor our pleasant fields to meditate in at eventide. Then the function of our architecture is, as far as may be, to replace these ; to tell us about nature...
Página 259 - They prepare for teaching gipsies, for teaching bargemen, for teaching miners, by apprehending their way of conceiving and estimating truth ; and why not prepare...