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Atheism beautiful Betty bless body boiled bread broiled called CHAPTER cheerful child Cloth comfort Common Sense corruptor dear delight Demosthenes dinner disease dress duty Eidlitz English language enjoy enjoyment error to suppose evil exercise eyes father feel fingers gibbet give gold grum grumbling habits hand happiness head honest Horace Walpole hundred years hence husband idea Isle of Axholme Jamie JOHN MILTON keep kind king labour laugh live look Lord Lord Chesterfield lungs means ment mind miserable sinners moral nature never night oakum perhaps pleasure poor proverb Providence prudence quadrupeds rich shillings society soul sound of music spirit sure things Thomas Brown thou thought tion tongue trade truth vulgar error walk whole wife wisdom wonder words worth young
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Page 89 - AH, what is love ? It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king, And sweeter too ; For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown : Ah then ! ah then ! If country loves such sweet desires do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain...
Page 126 - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap...
Page 32 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Page 90 - When shepherds laugh and love upon the land: Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain?
Page 126 - ... of the flock; sitting round, and looking on all the winter, whilst this one was devouring, throwing about, and wasting it ; and if a pigeon more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces ; if you should see this, you would see nothing more than what is every day' practised and established among men.
Page 90 - As doth the king upon his bed of down; More sounder too, For cares cause kings full oft their sleep to spill, Where weary shepherds lie and snort their fill: Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires do gain, What lady would not love a shepherd swain?
Page 92 - Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old To the very verge of the church-yard mould; Price of many a crime untold; Gold ! gold ! gold ! gold ! Good or bad a thousand fold!
Page 188 - Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. There is such a rush of all other kinds of words in our days, that it seems desirable to give kind words a chance among them. There are vain words, and idle words, and hasty words, and spiteful words, and silly words, and empty words, and profane words, and boisterous words, and warlike words.
Page 183 - ... and turn thought into an implement of trade, — this is not life. In all this, but a poor fraction of the consciousness of humanity is awakened : and the sanctities still slumber which make it most worth while to be. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone give vitality to the mechanism of existence...
Page 89 - The Shepherd's Wife's Song Ah what is love ? It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king, And sweeter too : For kings have cares that wait upon a Crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown: Ah then, ah then, If country loves such sweet desires do gain, What Lady would not love a Shepherd Swain...