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... live , he lives to dress . The all - importance of clothes , which a German professor of unequalled learning and acumen , writes his enormous volume to demonstrate , has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy with- out effort , like an ...
... live , he lives to dress . The all - importance of clothes , which a German professor of unequalled learning and acumen , writes his enormous volume to demonstrate , has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy with- out effort , like an ...
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... live ; it will shine in his benefactions to his fellow men - ever will he be esteemed as " INTER ATRAMENTI FACTORES FACILE PRINCEPS . " SUNSET . WHEN on the far blue mountain leans The weary sun at close of day , And o'er earth's ...
... live ; it will shine in his benefactions to his fellow men - ever will he be esteemed as " INTER ATRAMENTI FACTORES FACILE PRINCEPS . " SUNSET . WHEN on the far blue mountain leans The weary sun at close of day , And o'er earth's ...
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... live . " Deeply blushed the modest Rose , and smiled approval - and visions of happiness floated before the vine ; but alas , that -Nothing fond or bright is seen , But it hath pain and peril near " - for lo ! wafted on a gentle ...
... live . " Deeply blushed the modest Rose , and smiled approval - and visions of happiness floated before the vine ; but alas , that -Nothing fond or bright is seen , But it hath pain and peril near " - for lo ! wafted on a gentle ...
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... live to be as old as Methuselah . Miss Tabitha Tunk was the mistress of the village school , where I had the honor of studying the ' prima elementia . ' I see her now in memory with her tall and not inelegant figure , her smooth and ...
... live to be as old as Methuselah . Miss Tabitha Tunk was the mistress of the village school , where I had the honor of studying the ' prima elementia . ' I see her now in memory with her tall and not inelegant figure , her smooth and ...
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... live shut out from the common sympathies of its nature . It will wither like a plant deprived of moisture , without them . It may be compared to a mountain lake , whose waters to be kept pure must be constantly receiving tribute from ...
... live shut out from the common sympathies of its nature . It will wither like a plant deprived of moisture , without them . It may be compared to a mountain lake , whose waters to be kept pure must be constantly receiving tribute from ...
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Page 33 - A Dandy is a Clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office, and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse, and person is heroically consecrated to this one object, the wearing of Clothes wisely and well : so that as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
Page 120 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.
Page 311 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since: their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts; — not so thou. Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Page 264 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 123 - Certainly a man has a right to do what he likes with his own, but then every man who does so must make up his mind to certain little penalties.
Page 282 - The passage of the Patowmac through the Blue ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent.
Page 121 - He took the paper, and I watched, And saw him peep within ; At the first line he read, his face Was all upon the grin. He read the next ; the grin grew broad, And shot from ear to ear ; He read the third ; a chuckling noise I now began to hear. The fourth ; he broke into a roar ; • The fifth ; his waistband split ; The sixth ; he burst five buttons off, And tumbled in a fit. Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye, I watched that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can.
Page 282 - But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the fore-ground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous.
Page 121 - They were so queer, so very queer, I laughed as I would die ; Albeit, in the general way, A sober man am I. I called my servant, and he came ; How kind it was of him To mind a slender man like me, He of the mighty limb.
Page 253 - Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!