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Page 91
... walk homewards , had , like those of Mr. Marston , returned from general speculations to matters nearer home his starving fellow labourers in Spital Fields . What was it possible to do ? He had already reduced his own expenses to the ...
... walk homewards , had , like those of Mr. Marston , returned from general speculations to matters nearer home his starving fellow labourers in Spital Fields . What was it possible to do ? He had already reduced his own expenses to the ...
Page 106
... walk on upright , unflinching , in the plain , direct road of duty . The task appointed for the son was more difficult . He could not be as his father was . As well may the coursing antelope be compared with the noble bull . Genius ...
... walk on upright , unflinching , in the plain , direct road of duty . The task appointed for the son was more difficult . He could not be as his father was . As well may the coursing antelope be compared with the noble bull . Genius ...
Page 107
... walking down the Haymarket one full Opera night , not with de- sign to visit the Opera , but merely taking this way on his return from a late ramble in Hyde Park . The Opera , like other entertainments of that de- scription , was a ...
... walking down the Haymarket one full Opera night , not with de- sign to visit the Opera , but merely taking this way on his return from a late ramble in Hyde Park . The Opera , like other entertainments of that de- scription , was a ...
Page 143
... walking up and down his room , in a tumult , to his young inex- perience , of inexplicable feelings . All he understood , was the ineffable charm which bound him to her ; further than this he did not go . He thought not of consequences ...
... walking up and down his room , in a tumult , to his young inex- perience , of inexplicable feelings . All he understood , was the ineffable charm which bound him to her ; further than this he did not go . He thought not of consequences ...
Page 178
... walking the distance . The coach stopped at the door of a handsome house , and Jarvey descended to knock and to ring . Long he knocked , and many times he rang , before any answer was made . At last an old shabbily - dressed , dirty ...
... walking the distance . The coach stopped at the door of a handsome house , and Jarvey descended to knock and to ring . Long he knocked , and many times he rang , before any answer was made . At last an old shabbily - dressed , dirty ...
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Page 299 - Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection.
Page 299 - Samuel, and of the prophets : who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Page 19 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 217 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 209 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page 233 - The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, ' My life is dreary, He cometh not...
Page 266 - From each she nicely culls with curious toil And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box; The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transformed to combs, the speckled, and the white.
Page 187 - So let the change which comes be free To ingroove itself with that which flies, And work, a joint of state, that plies Its office, moved with sympathy.
Page 68 - He cast a look of despair around him. " When I reflect that if it had but been last year that consent was given, and that now I should have been there, and should already have satiated myself with Italy — that I should have been safely landed there, and it would have been useless to recall me — that I should there have learned that which, if not learned, what is art ? That I should have become what I feel I might, and now never can become ; for time, inexorable time, the golden years of my youth,...
Page 232 - But you will be wearied with this sad and monotonous subject. I thought to have followed in detail, the long struggles of this arduous existence, and the gradual advance of Evelyn in that path of the just, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day.