The Juvenile Mentor; Or, Select Readings ...Picket, 1825 - 262 páginas |
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... mind fixed on this intended jaunt . 2. It often happens , with young people in particular , that all on a sudden they lose the object of which they flatter them- selves they are almost in possession . So it fared with this little boy ...
... mind fixed on this intended jaunt . 2. It often happens , with young people in particular , that all on a sudden they lose the object of which they flatter them- selves they are almost in possession . So it fared with this little boy ...
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... mind that made ample amends for the want of beauty ; but her brother was a little Cupid , on whom his mother lavished all her favours and caresses . 3. It is no wonder that the servants , to gain the favour of their mistress , were very ...
... mind that made ample amends for the want of beauty ; but her brother was a little Cupid , on whom his mother lavished all her favours and caresses . 3. It is no wonder that the servants , to gain the favour of their mistress , were very ...
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... mind was superior to her face , had no effect ; for beauty alone attracts the attention of those who examine no further than external appearances . 6. The mother , who was continually chiding Emily , and expecting from her perfections ...
... mind was superior to her face , had no effect ; for beauty alone attracts the attention of those who examine no further than external appearances . 6. The mother , who was continually chiding Emily , and expecting from her perfections ...
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... mind it , she would find her again by and by . Some said , " Do not cry so , child , there is no- body that will hurt you or run away with you . ' Some pi- tied her , and others laughed at her ; but not one offered to give her any ...
... mind it , she would find her again by and by . Some said , " Do not cry so , child , there is no- body that will hurt you or run away with you . ' Some pi- tied her , and others laughed at her ; but not one offered to give her any ...
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... mind , all her four young daughters entered her apartment with a peevish and uneasy look , each complaining of the ' ill temper of the rest . There was not one , that did not charge the other three with being the cause of it , and all ...
... mind , all her four young daughters entered her apartment with a peevish and uneasy look , each complaining of the ' ill temper of the rest . There was not one , that did not charge the other three with being the cause of it , and all ...
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affection Amelia appeared Arachne arms Balance of Happiness beauty behold bird blessing bosom brethren brother Cæsar captain cheerful Cherry child cried Cusco daughter dear death delight duty earth Egypt endeavour Euphronius eyes father favour fear feel fell flowers fortune Freeport fruit garden give glory gratitude hand Hannah Hannah Lee happiness hast heard heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human Ibraim Joseph labour Lake Ontario Lamprocles liberty little boy little girl live look louis-d'ors mankind Mazzarino Mendez mind morning mother Mount Etna Mount Vesuvius mountain nature never night obliged pain Pandarus parents passed peace Perrin person pity pleasure poor Powhatan Pythias Saguntum scene Sicily sisters slaves snow Socrates soon sorrow soul spring suffer sweet tears tenderness thee thing thou thought tion tree unto Venetian virtue voice walk wisdom wish young youth
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Página 87 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 255 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Página 252 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Página 249 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that...
Página 191 - Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I •wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the Genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. "The islands...
Página 247 - The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, 'This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Página 247 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Página 249 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour ! Enough ; no more : 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Página 248 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Página 249 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas, poor Richard ! where rides he the whilst? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...