Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill: An Australian NovelHarper & Brothers, 1889 - 267 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 62 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
الصفحة 18 - True, I talk of dreams; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind...
الصفحة 73 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
الصفحة 61 - The tear down childhood's cheek that flows Is like the dewdrop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
الصفحة 93 - The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown ; No traveller ever reach'd that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briers in his road.
الصفحة 226 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
الصفحة 105 - Y' had best (quoth Ralpho), as the Ancients Say wisely, Have a care o' th' main chance, And Look before you ere you leap ; For As you sow, y' are like to reap : And were y...
الصفحة 111 - Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury...
الصفحة 160 - tis in my custody. Oth. Ha! lago. O, beware, my lord, of jealousy ; It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on : that cuckold lives in bliss Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger ; But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves ! Oth.
الصفحة 3 - I absolve: all my evasions vain, And reasonings, though through mazes, lead me still But to my own conviction...