James Hain Friswell: A Memoir

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G. Redway, 1898 - 316 páginas
 

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Página 149 - It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner.
Página 118 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Página 2 - NORMAN PEOPLE (The). The Norman People, and their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States of America.
Página 89 - The room looked very dark, the lamp began to smoke a little, the conversation grew dimmer and more dim, the ladies sat round still expectant, my father was too much perturbed by the gloom and the silence to be able to cope with it at all. Mrs. Brookfield, who was in the doorway by the study, near the corner in which Miss Bronte was sitting, leant forward with a little commonplace, since brilliance was not to be the order of the evening. "Do you like London, Miss Bronte?
Página 89 - Every one waited for the brilliant conversation which never began at all. Miss Bronte retired to the sofa in the study, and murmured a low word now and then to our kind governess, Miss Truelock. The room looked very dark, the lamp began to smoke a little, the conversation grew dimmer and more dim, the ladies sat round still expectant, my father was too much perturbed by the gloom and the silence to be able to cope with it at all.
Página 20 - LORD, from thy blessed throne, Sorrow look down upon ! God save the poor ! Teach them true liberty, Make them from tyrants free, Let their homes happy be ! God save the poor ! 2 The arms of wicked men Do thou with...
Página 193 - It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born Child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature in awe to Him Had doffed her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize : It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour.
Página 111 - Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Página 189 - Incurtained round I here entrust, Whilst my more pure and nobler part Lyes entomb'd in every heart. Then passe on gently ye y1 mourne, Touch not this mine hollowed Unie. These Ashes web doe here remaine A vitall tincture still retaine A seminall forme within y...
Página 313 - Life portraits of William Shakespeare. A history of the various representations of the poet, with an examination into their authenticity.

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