On the Nature of Things |
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الصفحة xxii - The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S : but the earth hath he given to the children of men. 17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
الصفحة 176 - And from her womb children of divers kind We sucking on her natural bosom find, Many for many virtues excellent, None but for some, and yet all different.
الصفحة 117 - Be absolute for death ; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : — If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict.
الصفحة 221 - So, take and use Thy work : Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o' the stuff, what warpings past the aim ! My times be in Thy hand ! Perfect the cup as planned ! Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same ! A DEATH IN THE DESERT.
الصفحة 207 - Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store: They poor, I rich; they beg, I give; They lack, I leave; they pine, I live.
الصفحة 114 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
الصفحة 164 - L'orgueilleuse a le cœur digne d'une couronne; La fourbe a de l'esprit, la sotte est toute bonne; La trop grande parleuse est d'agréable humeur, Et la muette garde une honnête pudeur. C'est ainsi qu'un amant dont l'ardeur est extrême, Aime jusqu'aux défauts des personnes qu'il aime.
الصفحة 129 - HAMLET. Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel ? POLONIUS. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. HAMLET. Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS. It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET. Or like a whale? POLONIUS. Very like a whale.
الصفحة 269 - tis terrible no way — for consider, brother Toby, — when we are — death is not; — and when death is — we are not.
الصفحة 119 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...