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Page 40 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 303 - SEE amid the winter's snow, Born for us on earth below — See the tender Lamb appears. Promised from eternal years.
Page 304 - Lo, within a manger lies He who built the starry skies ; He who throned in height sublime Sits amid the cherubim : 3 Say, ye holy shepherds, say What your joyful news to-day ; Wherefore have ye left your sheep On the lonely mountain steep ? 4 ' As we watched at dead of night, Lo, we saw a wondrous light; Angels singing " Peace on earth " Told us of the Saviour's birth...
Page 294 - A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes — the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives — all bear secret relations to our destinies."* * Chateaubriand.
Page 247 - Mast that all his life as far back as he could remember he had...
Page 2 - We hope that, as a sprig of Lavender, or a Cowslip, by his pillow might for a moment relieve the blood-tinted vision of a stricken soldier, so, perhaps, some unquiet heart labouring under the strain of long-drawn suspense, will find a passing relaxation, a forgotten smile, in the company of Loki and his companions.
Page 292 - I wouldn't put it past him. I wouldn't put anything past him.
Page 93 - I could not have been more than eight years old. In those days...