The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... birds and insects that traffic in the air , with animals innumerable , with the whole human race . Are the two positions reconcilable ? They must be since they coincide ; but their reconciliation is only a case of the eternal difficulty ...
... birds and insects that traffic in the air , with animals innumerable , with the whole human race . Are the two positions reconcilable ? They must be since they coincide ; but their reconciliation is only a case of the eternal difficulty ...
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... birds in their nest . Not beasts and birds only , but every tree and flower and blade of grass feel the difference between these opponent winds - the demon and the seraph of the air - and show their feeling palpably . It was the ...
... birds in their nest . Not beasts and birds only , but every tree and flower and blade of grass feel the difference between these opponent winds - the demon and the seraph of the air - and show their feeling palpably . It was the ...
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... bird that has come down to astonish the swans . I am not certain , by the way , that a lake would not be prefer- able to a river , if there were only a lake to be got for the purpose . When I close my eyes I can see Windermere , with ...
... bird that has come down to astonish the swans . I am not certain , by the way , that a lake would not be prefer- able to a river , if there were only a lake to be got for the purpose . When I close my eyes I can see Windermere , with ...
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... bird - haunted lawn , with a joyous wind tossing my lime - trees above me , and three dogs sleepily watching my proceedings , and wish- ing I would knock off work and take them to the Thames , and a bottle of hock close at hand . If I ...
... bird - haunted lawn , with a joyous wind tossing my lime - trees above me , and three dogs sleepily watching my proceedings , and wish- ing I would knock off work and take them to the Thames , and a bottle of hock close at hand . If I ...
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... birds , that hither wing , And thine the rarest products of the wide Ocean that isolates us . ' Tis the pride Of this sharp winter yearly hovering Over old England that its keen months bring Woodcock and snipe to tempt us . Me arride ...
... birds , that hither wing , And thine the rarest products of the wide Ocean that isolates us . ' Tis the pride Of this sharp winter yearly hovering Over old England that its keen months bring Woodcock and snipe to tempt us . Me arride ...
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The Secret of Long Life [By E.J.M. Collins] Edward James Mortimer Collins Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 32 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Página 94 - And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day — Ah ! do not we, wanderer ! await it too ? Yes, we await it! — but it still delays, And then we suffer! and amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne; And all his store of sad experience he Lays bare of wretched days...