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... young lady novelist , and find scattered through her pages sou- briquet and double entendre and à l'outrance and artiste and other choice specimens of the French which is spoken by those who do not speak French , we need read no further ...
... young lady novelist , and find scattered through her pages sou- briquet and double entendre and à l'outrance and artiste and other choice specimens of the French which is spoken by those who do not speak French , we need read no further ...
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... young men , being brought before a London magistrate , described themselves as ' gents . ' The magistrate said he considered that a designa- tion little better than ' blackguard . ' The abbreviate form has never been able to recover ...
... young men , being brought before a London magistrate , described themselves as ' gents . ' The magistrate said he considered that a designa- tion little better than ' blackguard . ' The abbreviate form has never been able to recover ...
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... young ladies were expected to read . " 7 " Seated on an upright tombstone , close to him , was a strange unearthly figure , whom , Gabriel felt at once , was no being of this world . " 8 " Those whom he feels would gain most advantage ...
... young ladies were expected to read . " 7 " Seated on an upright tombstone , close to him , was a strange unearthly figure , whom , Gabriel felt at once , was no being of this world . " 8 " Those whom he feels would gain most advantage ...
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... young man does not go to college , because he is afraid that he will be raised above his business . " 5 " I would be very much obliged to you if you would see to this . I would hate to fail in this course . " 6 " I would not have wanted ...
... young man does not go to college , because he is afraid that he will be raised above his business . " 5 " I would be very much obliged to you if you would see to this . I would hate to fail in this course . " 6 " I would not have wanted ...
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... young Browning [ at eighteen ] was definitely to adopt literature as his profession , he qualified himself for it by reading and digesting the whole of Johnson's Dictionary . " Mrs. Sutherland Orr : Life of Robert Browning , vol . i ...
... young Browning [ at eighteen ] was definitely to adopt literature as his profession , he qualified himself for it by reading and digesting the whole of Johnson's Dictionary . " Mrs. Sutherland Orr : Life of Robert Browning , vol . i ...
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Page 61 - The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Page 162 - Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock ; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 152 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Page 163 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 392 - The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up. But I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
Page 78 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand.
Page 126 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
Page 164 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 152 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 219 - VENERABLE MEN! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed ! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes...