Men of Capital, المجلد 3Henry Colburn, 1846 |
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الصفحة 330 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased, but all The multitude of angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy...
الصفحة 184 - No might nor greatne'ss in mortality Can censure 'scape ; back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes : What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ? But who comes here ? Enter ESCALUS, Provost, Bawd, and Officers.
الصفحة 157 - Wise wretch! with pleasures too refin'd to please; With too much spirit to be e'er at ease; With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
الصفحة 171 - ... together in a niche of a vestibule opening to the refreshment-room, escape his observation. " Conceive what an interesting creature we have here to-night, my dear Mr. Mordaunt !" cried she, pushing forward to accost them. " A young Jesuit, in whom the late pope had such confidence, that he was despatched by his order to Constantinople as a missionary ; where, instead of converting others, he became converted in his turn ; but, from his origin, he was so much an object of suspicion among the Turks,...
الصفحة 24 - And at the last, a path of litel brede I found, that gretly had not used be, For it forgrowen was with gras and weede, 4= That wel unneth a wight [ther] might it see.
الصفحة 290 - ... on earth, at a moment so trying. On rising from the breakfast-table, he was glad to find that obstacles still retarded his departure. — An absence of some days from home had caused a world of business to accrue upon his hands ; — justice-business, — farming-business, — parish-business ; — complaints of the injured, — claims of the poor, — and appeals to the Briarean power of the Man of Capital. — For the wealth of Mordaunt ran like molten gold in the languid veins of the district....
الصفحة 241 - L'intelligence ne trouve qu'en elle-même l'aliment de sa vie : sois juste et fort. Nul ne connaît le jour qui doit suivre: tu ne trouveras point de paix dans les choses ; cherche-la dans ton cœur. La force est la loi de la nature : la puissance c'est la volonté ; l'énergie dans les peines est meilleure que l'apathie dans les voluptés. Celui qui obéit et qui souffre est souvent plus grand que celui qui jouit ou qui commande. Ce que tu crains est vain, ce que tu désires est vain.
الصفحة 114 - Roman history by heart, and a tendency to verse-making at the neb of their pen, — amazing in what magnanimities they indulge ! — But if laurel-wreaths were devised to hide the bald head of a victorious emperor, they have done far severer duty in fostering the sprouting of ass's ears ! — What a fine fellow was Reresby at Eton ! — what a fine fellow when...
الصفحة 171 - Rowlandson, a chatterbox nearly as flighty as herself, had persuaded her that the lion of Lady Belvedere's party was a renegade Jesuit, an accredited spy of the Sultan, who had been despatched to London on a secret mission to keep watch over the proceedings of Ibrahim Pasha; and scarcely a man present whose face happened to be strange to her, and sufficiently mahogany of complexion to avouch an Oriental origin, but was exposed to the annoyance of her scrutiny. At length, having fixed, as the hero...