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... told us , did not get up till some one called to rouse him , whether it was ten , eleven , twelve , or one o'clock . ' Life of W. Wilberforce , ed . 1838 , ii . 179 . 2 Perhaps the resolutions made when his wife lay dead before him ...
... told us , did not get up till some one called to rouse him , whether it was ten , eleven , twelve , or one o'clock . ' Life of W. Wilberforce , ed . 1838 , ii . 179 . 2 Perhaps the resolutions made when his wife lay dead before him ...
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... told me , ' writes Boswell , ' that he had fasted two days without inconvenience . ' Life , i . 468 ; iii . 306 ; v . 284 . 3 Baxter describes the doubts of his own salvation which exercised him many years . Reliquiae Bax- terianae , ed ...
... told me , ' writes Boswell , ' that he had fasted two days without inconvenience . ' Life , i . 468 ; iii . 306 ; v . 284 . 3 Baxter describes the doubts of his own salvation which exercised him many years . Reliquiae Bax- terianae , ed ...
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... told . He took me to see the play at Drury Lane . When we came out of the house it rained hard . There were then few hackney coaches , and we got both into one sedan - chair . Turning out of Fleet Street into Fetter Lane there was a ...
... told . He took me to see the play at Drury Lane . When we came out of the house it rained hard . There were then few hackney coaches , and we got both into one sedan - chair . Turning out of Fleet Street into Fetter Lane there was a ...
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... told her that we were to part for ever , that as Christians we should part with prayer , and that I would , if she was willing say a short prayer beside her . She expressed great desire to hear me , held up her poor hands , as she lay ...
... told her that we were to part for ever , that as Christians we should part with prayer , and that I would , if she was willing say a short prayer beside her . She expressed great desire to hear me , held up her poor hands , as she lay ...
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... told me of it , and , what pleased me less , told the family at Dunvegan 6 . preceding Meditations on Good Friday and Easter Sunday are writ- ten . Note by G. Strahan . For the influence that weather and seasons have on study , see Life ...
... told me of it , and , what pleased me less , told the family at Dunvegan 6 . preceding Meditations on Good Friday and Easter Sunday are writ- ten . Note by G. Strahan . For the influence that weather and seasons have on study , see Life ...
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Page 439 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become 120 A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 428 - Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, " Don't tell where I come from." —" From Scotland," cried Davies, roguishly. " Mr. Johnson," said I, " I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.
Page 428 - That, sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.' This stroke stunned me a good deal, and when we had sat down I felt myself not a little embarrassed and apprehensive of what might come next.
Page 252 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 260 - Oft in danger, yet alive, We are come to thirty-five ; Long may better years arrive, Better years than thirty-five. Could philosophers contrive Life to stop at thirty-five, Time his hours should never drive O'er the bounds of thirty-five. High to soar, and deep to dive, Nature gives at thirty-five. Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five ; For howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five ; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five ; And all who wisely...
Page 186 - Thus to mine eyes. —Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Page 196 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 473 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Pol. ' That's very true, my lord. Ham. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion — 'Have you a daughter ? Pol. I have, my lord. Ham. Let her not walk i' the sun : conception is a blessing ; but not as your daughter may conceive.
Page 466 - No author ever kept his verse and his prose at a greater distance from each other. His thoughts are natural, and his style has a smooth and placid equability, which has never yet obtained its due commendation. Nothing is far-sought, or hard-laboured ; but all is easy without feebleness, and familiar without grossness.
Page 296 - him to whom much is given, much will be required," seems to have been ever present to his mind in a rigorous sense, and to have made him dissatisfied with his labours and acts of goodness, however comparatively great ; so that the unavoidable consciousness of his superiority was in that respect a cause of disquiet. He suffered so much from this, and...