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... wife very ill , was talking to Garrick , in exuberance of sentimentality , in praise of conjugal love and fidelity . " The husband , " said he , " who behaves unkindly to his wife , de- serves to have his house burned over his head ...
... wife very ill , was talking to Garrick , in exuberance of sentimentality , in praise of conjugal love and fidelity . " The husband , " said he , " who behaves unkindly to his wife , de- serves to have his house burned over his head ...
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... wife followed the merry example , and promised each other to correct their weakness towards their spoilt child , whose every wish they saw too well it would be difficult for them to accomplish . VOL . I. D CHARLES V. USED to say that a ...
... wife followed the merry example , and promised each other to correct their weakness towards their spoilt child , whose every wish they saw too well it would be difficult for them to accomplish . VOL . I. D CHARLES V. USED to say that a ...
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... wife sent a written request to the clergyman of the parish , which , instead of spelling and pointing properly , viz . , " A person having gone to sea , his wife desires the prayers of the con- gregation ; " she spelled and pointed as ...
... wife sent a written request to the clergyman of the parish , which , instead of spelling and pointing properly , viz . , " A person having gone to sea , his wife desires the prayers of the con- gregation ; " she spelled and pointed as ...
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... WIVES . CHUNG ATTAI and his brace of wives - his two better halves- have been introduced to the Queen and the Prince at Osborne . An illustrious lady was heard to remark that for one husband to have a couple of wives , seemed an odd way ...
... WIVES . CHUNG ATTAI and his brace of wives - his two better halves- have been introduced to the Queen and the Prince at Osborne . An illustrious lady was heard to remark that for one husband to have a couple of wives , seemed an odd way ...
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... wives shall esteem and love you . A GOOD WIFE , SAYS an American editor , is one who puts her husband in at the side of the bed next to the wall , and tucks him up to keep him warm , in the winter , splits the wood , makes the fire in ...
... wives shall esteem and love you . A GOOD WIFE , SAYS an American editor , is one who puts her husband in at the side of the bed next to the wall , and tucks him up to keep him warm , in the winter , splits the wood , makes the fire in ...
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Page 242 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 372 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease...
Page 144 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! logo.
Page 252 - Tis brightness all ; save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current. Low, the woods Bow their hoar head ; and, ere the languid Sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Page 339 - For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept : then had I been at rest...
Page 255 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 209 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like...
Page 54 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud, instead, and ever-during dark, Surrounds me...
Page 343 - O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew!
Page 298 - Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea...