The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... light to the eye , music to the voice , life to the lips , grace to the form . A long series of such thoughts and impulses makes the soul stronger for its next effort ; and the poet or sage who leaves this world ( to write vaguely ) ...
... light to the eye , music to the voice , life to the lips , grace to the form . A long series of such thoughts and impulses makes the soul stronger for its next effort ; and the poet or sage who leaves this world ( to write vaguely ) ...
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... 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 or Cassell will probably arise to supply it : but our Villager shall be classic ...
... 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 or Cassell will probably arise to supply it : but our Villager shall be classic ...
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... light . In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be . It may . At the same time the short - lived ' flower of light , ' with all its dainty beauty and subtle odour , is not precisely so grand a ...
... light . In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be . It may . At the same time the short - lived ' flower of light , ' with all its dainty beauty and subtle odour , is not precisely so grand a ...
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... light canoe may be lazily : paddled , and a pretty girl seated in one , gliding along the stream , looks like some marvellous aquatic bird that has come down to astonish the swans . I am not certain , by the way , that a lake would not ...
... light canoe may be lazily : paddled , and a pretty girl seated in one , gliding along the stream , looks like some marvellous aquatic bird that has come down to astonish the swans . I am not certain , by the way , that a lake would not ...
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... light wines according to the season . Your ghost Of a breakfast in England , your curst tea and toast , as Tom Moore puts it , is an utter absurdity . The man who has heavy and definite work to do is most unwise to begin his day in such ...
... light wines according to the season . Your ghost Of a breakfast in England , your curst tea and toast , as Tom Moore puts it , is an utter absurdity . The man who has heavy and definite work to do is most unwise to begin his day in such ...
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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
Pasajes populares
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...