The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp].Robert Kemp Philp 1861 |
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... father's relations were living . Madame raised few objections , and that was how it was the child first became ours . * * * " As long as my dear wife lived she would never willingly part with the child for an hour . It was her constant ...
... father's relations were living . Madame raised few objections , and that was how it was the child first became ours . * * * " As long as my dear wife lived she would never willingly part with the child for an hour . It was her constant ...
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... father's birth- day , exhibiting to the people splendid shows , and scenes in the arena with the wild beasts and captives . Agrippa , also , laid out a vast sum of money in building a theatre , bestowed corn and oil upon the people ...
... father's birth- day , exhibiting to the people splendid shows , and scenes in the arena with the wild beasts and captives . Agrippa , also , laid out a vast sum of money in building a theatre , bestowed corn and oil upon the people ...
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... father , replied , " Yes , sure enough , he's the parent iv me ; but he trates me as if I was his son by another father and mother ! POETRY permits her votaries to indulge in many metaphorical ideas , but the latest one we have met with ...
... father , replied , " Yes , sure enough , he's the parent iv me ; but he trates me as if I was his son by another father and mother ! POETRY permits her votaries to indulge in many metaphorical ideas , but the latest one we have met with ...
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... father , whose birth- day it was , and for whose dinner the de- licious bird was to be roasted . " It's a nice bird , " said Claude . " It'll be nicer when the sage and onions are in it , " remarked the gipsy boy . " The feathers are ...
... father , whose birth- day it was , and for whose dinner the de- licious bird was to be roasted . " It's a nice bird , " said Claude . " It'll be nicer when the sage and onions are in it , " remarked the gipsy boy . " The feathers are ...
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... father's house , had grown up among them . The billows helped on the boat - they seemed to run down the sides of the mount - they rushed across the plains they went sounding towards the sea , bearing with them a freight of boats , for ...
... father's house , had grown up among them . The billows helped on the boat - they seemed to run down the sides of the mount - they rushed across the plains they went sounding towards the sea , bearing with them a freight of boats , for ...
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Page 37 - That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Page 208 - He had lived for his love, for his country he died — They were all that to life had entwined him ; Nor soon shall the tears of his country be dried, Nor long will his love stay behind him...
Page 222 - Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house ; he took all : he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Page 208 - In a word, he at length succeeded in gaining her hand, though with the solemn assurance, that her heart was unalterably another's. He took her with him to Sicily, hoping that a change of scene might wear out the remembrance of early woes. She was an amiable and exemplary wife, and made an effort to be a happy one ; but nothing could cure the silent and devouring melancholy that had entered into her very soul.
Page 35 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely Tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear...
Page 120 - ... in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught : then with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness to render lightsome, clear, and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion, and our country's liberty...
Page 158 - After I had, with- the best attention, read it through, I made him another visit, and returned him his book, with due acknowledgment of the favour he had done me in communicating it to me. He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it, which I modestly but freely told him ; and, after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost...
Page 225 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Page 158 - After some common discourses had passed between us, he called for a manuscript of his ; which being brought he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me, and read it at my leisure ; and when I had so done, return it to him with my judgment thereupon. When I came home, and had set myself to read it, I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled
Page 177 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?