Fish-tails, and Some True OnesE.Arnold, 1897 - 255 Seiten |
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Seite 7
... the next , from the friendship and conversation of a few select com- panions . · ADDISON . But , O , how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes ! SHAKESPEARE . CONTENTS . PAGE I. WHY II . THE BENT PIN.
... the next , from the friendship and conversation of a few select com- panions . · ADDISON . But , O , how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes ! SHAKESPEARE . CONTENTS . PAGE I. WHY II . THE BENT PIN.
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... Look at that Turner engraving : it is the small Lucerne . ' ( Do you suppose you would have seen it like that ? " He waved his pipe towards a picture on the wall , and I examined the beautiful print with admiration , but confessed that ...
... Look at that Turner engraving : it is the small Lucerne . ' ( Do you suppose you would have seen it like that ? " He waved his pipe towards a picture on the wall , and I examined the beautiful print with admiration , but confessed that ...
Seite 67
... third , small fish were rising and leaping everywhere , but no- thing , small or large , would look at a fly ; so at length I decided to try the minnow . It was soon on a gut trace , and made a most The Gold Devon . 67.
... third , small fish were rising and leaping everywhere , but no- thing , small or large , would look at a fly ; so at length I decided to try the minnow . It was soon on a gut trace , and made a most The Gold Devon . 67.
Seite 69
... look at a fly , attacked the minnow with a most obliging ferocity , and soon reposed in the basket : the brace scaled over three pounds . I was then reluctantly obliged to hurry away ; but I had fully persuaded myself that , under ...
... look at a fly , attacked the minnow with a most obliging ferocity , and soon reposed in the basket : the brace scaled over three pounds . I was then reluctantly obliged to hurry away ; but I had fully persuaded myself that , under ...
Seite 73
... go for a walk before breakfast , and on this occasion I strolled down to look at the river . There was a bridge handy , upon which I took my stand to admire the view , wishing , as was natural , that people got up The Competition . 73.
... go for a walk before breakfast , and on this occasion I strolled down to look at the river . There was a bridge handy , upon which I took my stand to admire the view , wishing , as was natural , that people got up The Competition . 73.
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Seite 7 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self ; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions...
Seite 105 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Seite 35 - To-morrow is saint Crispian :' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.' Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day...
Seite 241 - No where by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. But here will sigh thine alder tree, And here thine aspen shiver; And here by thee will hum the bee, For ever and for ever. A...
Seite 244 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Seite 46 - Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.
Seite 130 - NOT a breath of air Ruffles the bosom of this leafy glen. From the brook's margin, wide around, the trees Are steadfast as the rocks ; the brook itself, Old as the hills that feed it from afar, Doth rather deepen than disturb the calm Where all things else are still and motionless.
Seite 63 - And, seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits, You cannot but forbear to murder me.
Seite 113 - Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass— at least, to all intent; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him, to any great extent.
Seite 13 - Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species...