The New sporting magazine, 25. köide1853 |
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... better in France , and the Peace Society to the contrary notwithstanding - that I were better pleased to rest where Cournet and " The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep , " than suffer " every puny whipster " to " spit on me , and ...
... better in France , and the Peace Society to the contrary notwithstanding - that I were better pleased to rest where Cournet and " The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep , " than suffer " every puny whipster " to " spit on me , and ...
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... , or writhing le at the ant ” → to pole ; upt at lea cognized 1 boy ; C he Ο 3 a ng nted , only alone reprisals , fearless ls honour . pang ; but › now desolate you again in ws better than would indeed tinged by as I did having.
... , or writhing le at the ant ” → to pole ; upt at lea cognized 1 boy ; C he Ο 3 a ng nted , only alone reprisals , fearless ls honour . pang ; but › now desolate you again in ws better than would indeed tinged by as I did having.
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... better than yourself that the end of all is not here ; were it so , yours would indeed be a cheerless lot . Nor are my own reflections on the past untinged by that bitter drop which has turned your cup to gall . Knowing as I did the ...
... better than yourself that the end of all is not here ; were it so , yours would indeed be a cheerless lot . Nor are my own reflections on the past untinged by that bitter drop which has turned your cup to gall . Knowing as I did the ...
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... better man , I have been the victim of an unworthy ambition - not the noble infirmity which urges the aspirer to be great - not the heaven - born sentiment which impels him to be good ; but the paltry , and unmanly thirst for frivolous ...
... better man , I have been the victim of an unworthy ambition - not the noble infirmity which urges the aspirer to be great - not the heaven - born sentiment which impels him to be good ; but the paltry , and unmanly thirst for frivolous ...
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... better opportunities than elsewhere of arriving , if we are not completely blinded by self - conceit , at our true value amongst our fellow - creatures . The young men of the present day are not prone , without some very cogent reasons ...
... better opportunities than elsewhere of arriving , if we are not completely blinded by self - conceit , at our true value amongst our fellow - creatures . The young men of the present day are not prone , without some very cogent reasons ...
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Page 167 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 264 - that the child should be instructed in the arts which will be useful to the man;" since a finished scholar may emerge from the head of Westminster or Eton in total ignorance of the business and conversation of English gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century.
Page 268 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, lago ; All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven : 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell ! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate ! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics
Page 76 - Heaven derive their light. These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
Page 179 - Your sportive fury, pitiless, to pour Loose on the nightly robber of the fold Him, from his craggy winding haunts unearth'd, Let all the thunder of the chase pursue.
Page 14 - Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell A single recollection, not in vain He wore his sandal-shoon, and scallop-shell; Farewell ! with him alone may rest the pain, If such there were — with you, the moral of his strain!
Page 157 - Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.
Page 94 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, "While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Page 183 - How melts my beating heart ! as I behold Each lovely nymph, our island's boast and pride, Push on the generous steed, that sweeps along O'er rough, o'er smooth, nor heeds the steepy hill, Nor falters in the extended vale below ! The Chase.
Page 76 - Live! fear no heavier chastisement from me, Thou noteless blot on a remembered name! But be thyself, and know thyself to be! And ever at thy season be thou free To spill the venom when thy fangs o'erflow: Remorse and Self-contempt shall cling to thee; Hot Shame shall burn upon thy secret brow, And like a beaten hound tremble thou shalt — as now.