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... head and front of the universe ; but Max O'Rell told us the same thing a good many years ago , and many others said it long before Max O'Rell . In fact , the Englishman himself will not strenuously deny the impeachment , and so there is ...
... head and front of the universe ; but Max O'Rell told us the same thing a good many years ago , and many others said it long before Max O'Rell . In fact , the Englishman himself will not strenuously deny the impeachment , and so there is ...
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... head just shows above the wall of his for- tress : If you mean to invade us , why make such a rout ? I say , little ... head of King George on a platter in- scribed : " Oh , de beef of Old England ! " A hand above holds out the scales of ...
... head just shows above the wall of his for- tress : If you mean to invade us , why make such a rout ? I say , little ... head of King George on a platter in- scribed : " Oh , de beef of Old England ! " A hand above holds out the scales of ...
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... head . This ministry's futile negotiations for peace with France are frequently bur- lesqued . Gillray published on April 5th " Pacific Overtures ; or , a Flight from St. Cloud's ' over the water to Charley , ' in which the negotiations ...
... head . This ministry's futile negotiations for peace with France are frequently bur- lesqued . Gillray published on April 5th " Pacific Overtures ; or , a Flight from St. Cloud's ' over the water to Charley , ' in which the negotiations ...
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... head : " I have long wished to strike my talons . into that diabolical head - piece ; " the Brit- ish bulldog has been enjoying portions of the joints , and thinks that he would " like to have the picking of that head . " The Russian ...
... head : " I have long wished to strike my talons . into that diabolical head - piece ; " the Brit- ish bulldog has been enjoying portions of the joints , and thinks that he would " like to have the picking of that head . " The Russian ...
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... head and bust of the Emperor , drawn on a colossal scale , a hangman's noose around his throat , is mounted on a vast pyramid of human heads , his decap- itated victims . Demons are flying through the air to place upon his brow a crown ...
... head and bust of the Emperor , drawn on a colossal scale , a hangman's noose around his throat , is mounted on a vast pyramid of human heads , his decap- itated victims . Demons are flying through the air to place upon his brow a crown ...
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Página 561 - Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbow'd.
Página 224 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 300 - I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding.
Página 278 - No more firing was heard at Brussels — the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city : and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart.
Página 366 - My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of fact, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.
Página 561 - Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate : I am the captain of my soul.
Página 328 - Perhaps the eighteen months which I passed in this condition, walking to and fro on those miserably dirty lanes, was the worst period of my life. I was now over fifteen, and had come to an age at which I could appreciate at its full the misery of expulsion from all social intercourse. I had not only no friends, but was despised by all my companions.
Página 141 - strange yearning That such souls have, most to lavish Where there's chance of least returning." Oh, we're sunk enough here, God knows! But not quite so sunk that moments, Sure though seldom, are denied us, When the spirit's true endowments Stand out plainly from its false ones, And apprise it if pursuing Or the right way or the wrong way, To its triumph or undoing.
Página 367 - I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.