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Page 88 - Unlike my subject now shall be my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
Page 29 - On the bare earth exposed he lies With not a friend to close his eyes. With downcast looks the joyless victor sate, Revolving in his alter'd soul The various turns of chance below; And now and then a sigh he stole, And tears began to flow.
Page 25 - Are we not here now, continued the corporal (striking the end of his stick perpendicularly upon the floor, so as to give an idea of health and stability) — and are we not — (dropping his hat upon the ground) gone!
Page 3 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Page 14 - Suspends the infant audience with her tales, Breathing astonishment! of witching rhymes, And evil spirits; of the death-bed call Of him who robb'd the widow, and devour'd...
Page 13 - Speaking of the newfangled French Constitution, and in particular of the King (Louis XVI.) as the chief power in form and appearance only, he repeated the famous lines in Milton describing Death, and concluded with peculiar emphasis, What seem'd its head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. The person who heard him make the speech said, that, if ever a poet's language had been finely applied by an orator to express his thoughts and make out his purpose, it was in this instance. The passage, I...
Page 14 - Breathing astonishment! of witching rhymes, And evil spirits; of the death-bed call Of him who robb'd the widow, and devour'd The orphan's portion...
Page 25 - Are we not here now, — and gone in a moment?" — There was nothing in the sentence ; — 'twas one of your self-evident truths we have the advantage of hearing every day ; and if Trim had not trusted more to his hat than his head, — he had made nothing at all of it " Are we not here now," continued the Corporal, " and are we not" dropping his hat plump upon the ground, — and pausing, before he pronounced the word) —
Page 28 - as well as possible, to conceal the sorrow that oppressed her ; but, notwithstanding her magnanimity, a picture betrayed her distress. The subject was the parting of Hector and Andromache. He was represented delivering his son Astyanax into her arms, and the eyes of Andromache were fixed upon him. The resemblance that this picture bore to her own distress, made Porcia burst into tears the moment she beheld it.
Page 141 - ... children. It will be but just to provide our pupils with convenient places for the preservation and arrangement of their little goods. Order is necessary to economy ; and we cannot more certainly create a taste for order, than by showing early its advantages in practice as well as in theory. The aversion to old things, should, if possible, be prevented in children : we should not express contempt for old things, but we should treat them with increased reverence, and exult in their having arrived...