Tales, Viz. Meredith, Strathern, Femme de Chambre, Marmaduke Herbert, Country Quarters, Band 5 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 145 - Lord, thou hast been our refuge, from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.
Seite 159 - Cure her of that : Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Haze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuff 'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Seite 200 - One fatal remembrance, one sorrow that throws Its bleak shade alike o'er our joys and our woes, To which life nothing darker or brighter can bring, For which joy has no balm and affliction no sting...
Seite 146 - For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday seeing that is past as a watch in the night. As soon as Thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep and fade away suddenly like the grass. In the morning it is green and groweth up, but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.
Seite 42 - I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, the reason why I cannot tell, But this I know and know full well, I do not love thee, Dr. Fell...
Seite 165 - If you wish for change," replied I, coldly, "I can have no objection; but 1 thought that you liked retirement, and preferred our home to all other places.
Seite 61 - ... of stage-coach in Smollet's time. Smollet, Humphrey Clinker p. 73. Shall I commit myself to the high-roads of London or Bristol , to be stifled with dust, or pressed to death in the midst of post-chaises, flyingmachines, waggons and coal-horses. fogram, fogey? Lady Blessington, Marm. Herb. I, p. 61. The old fograms of a college take a very different view of such matters from what military men do. fox-squirrel, sciurus niger.