Meliora, 7–8. köidePartridge & Company, 1865 |
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... carried into other countries by the traders who came for commerce or shelter to the roads of Smyrna ; and Homer ... carrying on business in the Agora ( being , perhaps , as we should say , a huckster ) was liable to a penalty . A third ...
... carried into other countries by the traders who came for commerce or shelter to the roads of Smyrna ; and Homer ... carrying on business in the Agora ( being , perhaps , as we should say , a huckster ) was liable to a penalty . A third ...
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... carried on without it , and even those most mechanical are open to many improvements from their being followed by better workmen , who could possibly find out how it could be done without a workman at all . The closer we probe into the ...
... carried on without it , and even those most mechanical are open to many improvements from their being followed by better workmen , who could possibly find out how it could be done without a workman at all . The closer we probe into the ...
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... carried his venture safely ' adown the fretful tide of circumstance , ' even to our days ; and the more we examine the wealth of poetry with which it is freighted , the more astounded we become at the niggardly pittance of biographical ...
... carried his venture safely ' adown the fretful tide of circumstance , ' even to our days ; and the more we examine the wealth of poetry with which it is freighted , the more astounded we become at the niggardly pittance of biographical ...
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... carrying their scars , they went forth stronger than ever to do battle with evil . Falk lived long enough after this to organize a plan for the decay of beggary , and to found a seminary in which schoolmasters were to be properly ...
... carrying their scars , they went forth stronger than ever to do battle with evil . Falk lived long enough after this to organize a plan for the decay of beggary , and to found a seminary in which schoolmasters were to be properly ...
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... carried out . In early spring the foundation - stone was laid , and in July the boys , swelled in number to a large band , marched into the new building , whilst the organ ( a present from a friend ) pealed out the notes of triumph ...
... carried out . In early spring the foundation - stone was laid , and in July the boys , swelled in number to a large band , marched into the new building , whilst the organ ( a present from a friend ) pealed out the notes of triumph ...
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Page 69 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Page 74 - Poor stuff! No, sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 38 - His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.
Page 37 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Page 37 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an. open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 113 - All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Page 26 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 29 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 38 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 42 - To leave for nothing all thy sum of good; For nothing this wide universe I call Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all.