Tales of Real LifeS.G. Goodrich, 1827 - 380 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 183 - And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them ; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived : And Israel said, It is enough ; Joseph my son is yet alive : I will go and see him before I die.
الصفحة 226 - And such the curse entail'd upon our kind, That man, the lawless libertine, may rove, Free and unquestion'd, through the wilds of love; While woman, sense and nature's easy fool, If poor weak woman swerve from, virtue's rule, If, strongly charm'd, she...
الصفحة 59 - And cheaply circulates, thro' distant climes, The fairest relics of the purest times. Here from the mould to conscious being start Those finer forms, the miracles of art; Here chosen gems, imprest on sulphur, shine, That slept for ages in a second mine; ' 11 .•••' • And here the faithful graver dares to trace ' •' . < A MICHAEL'S grandeur, and a RAPHAEL'S grace! , Thy gallery, Florence, gilds my humble walls, And my low roof the Vatican recalls!
الصفحة 205 - That eye dropt sense distinct and clear, As any Muse's tongue could speak, When from its lid a pearly tear Ran trickling down her beauteous cheek. Dissembling what I knew too well, My love, my life...
الصفحة 268 - I'll return ere long. ^EXEUNT Victoria and Isabella. Alb. (sola.} Ay, go, and every blessing with thee go, My most tormenting and most pleasing charge ! Like vapour from the mountain stream art thou, Which lightly rises on the morning air, And shifts its fleeting form with ev'ry breeze, For ever varying, and for ever graceful.
الصفحة 268 - No dissonance, nor striking contrast make ; For still thy good and amiable gifts The sober dignity of virtue wear not, And such a 'witching mien thy follies show, They make a very idiot of reproof, And smile it to disgrace.
الصفحة 135 - ... sometimes very naughty in those of a more advanced age, are in them, they suppose, altogether innocent and inoffensive. But, however innocent they may be, as to their intention then, yet, as the practice may grow upon them unobserved, and root itself into a habit, they ought to be checked and discountenanced in their first efforts towards...
الصفحة 210 - ... radiance, and light her with safety and certainty on her' way. It may be thought surprising, and even impossible, that I could discern so easily the defects in this lady's character, and see so evidently the marks in her of some mysterious sorrow, some probably guilty secret, while Lord D remained perfectly unconscious of both. To this I reply, that Lord D was a man wholly devoid of suspicion, and not gifted with much penetration. He was, on the contrary, even blind to the faults of those he...
الصفحة 378 - I have always inculcated on those under my care, what has been the result of my own painful experience, that the woman violates her duty both to society and herself, who gives any one reason to say, or even to insinuate, that APPEARANCE IS AGAINST HER.