The Great Exhibition: With Continental Sketches, Practical and Humorous

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Hurd & Houghton, 1868 - 486 pages
 

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Page 76 - Johnson — laughed heartily when I mentioned to him a saying of his concerning Mr. Thomas Sheridan, which Foote took a wicked pleasure to circulate. ' Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull ; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in nature.
Page 356 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep ; the more I give to thee The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 418 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth, but a good book is a precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to
Page 13 - her, nor custom stale her infinite variety ; others cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies, for vilest things become themselves in her.
Page 56 - continuance of the same. Would Mr. Boswell name the house to his extensive acquaintance, it would be a singular favor conferred on one who has it not in her power to make any other return, but her most grateful thanks and sincerest prayers for his happiness in time, and in a blessed eternity.
Page 210 - rapidity of their conceptions, the fire of their genius, their sense of beauty, — and amidst all the disadvantages of repeated revolutions, the desolation of battles, and the despair of ages, their still unquenched 'longing after immortality,' — the immortality of independence.
Page 486 - tine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold; — For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for lesse be told.
Page 467 - Since light so necessary is to life And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part.
Page 107 - Each lonely place shall him restore, For him the tear be duly shed; Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned till Pity's self be dead.
Page 480 - troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; in

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