The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... epigram and scholarship for the male readers , of love - songs and gossip and light essay for the ladies . Let it combine clarity of thought with politure of style . If the commonalty demand something more fescennine , a village Lloyd ...
... epigram and scholarship for the male readers , of love - songs and gossip and light essay for the ladies . Let it combine clarity of thought with politure of style . If the commonalty demand something more fescennine , a village Lloyd ...
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... epigram . But the fault is with the mistresses . Ladies should not be above obtaining that dainty knowledge of cookery ( a branch of chymistry ) , which in these days is supplied by the most elegant scientific manuals . Servants are ...
... epigram . But the fault is with the mistresses . Ladies should not be above obtaining that dainty knowledge of cookery ( a branch of chymistry ) , which in these days is supplied by the most elegant scientific manuals . Servants are ...
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... himself to write anything heavier than a lyric or an epigram . Walker is quite right in his asser- tion that incomplete men are the most likely to succeed in life . The very desire of change The Classic Character . 107.
... himself to write anything heavier than a lyric or an epigram . Walker is quite right in his asser- tion that incomplete men are the most likely to succeed in life . The very desire of change The Classic Character . 107.
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The Secret of Long Life [By E.J.M. Collins] Edward James Mortimer Collins Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
65 Cornhill Adjutant Apollo apprehended Asgill beauty birds boys brain CHAPTER Charles Kingsley charm Church classic character connexion COUNTESS VON BOTHMER crown 8vo daughter destiny dine dinner divine dreams England English enjoy faculties Felice Orsini flower French Empire girls Greek grow happiness Holme Lee Homer husband ideas indolent infinite intellectual iodine Kathie Brande KING ladies laze literature live long lobster London longevity look marriage of completion married master Matthew Arnold mean mind modern MORTIMER COLLINS NASSAU WILLIAM SENIOR never noble novels oyster perfect pleasant POEMS poet poetic political port wine post 8vo Pythagoras racter Sauterne Scholar Gipsy Second Edition SECRET OF LONG sermons sleep soul spirit sunset supreme theory things Thomas Archer thought tion Tom Hood trees true verse village West India Regiment whitebait wife Windermere wine write young
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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...