Memoir of Robert Chambers: With Autobiographic Reminiscences of William ChambersScribner, Armstrong & Company, 1872 - 313 strán (strany) |
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Strana 108 - All this, and more endearing still than all, Thy constant flow of love, that knew no fall, Ne'er roughened by those cataracts and breaks, That humor interposed too often makes ; All this, still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age...
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Strana 85 - A prison is a house of care. A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.
Strana 180 - Mambrino's helmet -upon the crazed capital of Don Quixote, only a great deal more magnificent in shape and dimensions. There was, at first, much relief and much comfort in this new mode of carrying the pot; but mark the result. The unfortunate minister having taken a by-path, to escape observation, found himself, when still a good way from home, under the necessity of leaping over a ditch, which intercepted him, in passing from one field to another. He jumped; but surely no jump was ever taken so...
Strana 43 - A huge man was there with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot — 24 in all.