Wild Rose, Volume 3Tinsley Bros., 1882 |
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Popular passages
Page 30 - OUT of the golden remote wild west where the sea without shore is, Full of the sunset, and sad, if at all, with the fulness of joy, As a wind sets in with the autumn that blows from the region of stories, Blows with a perfume of songs and of memories beloved from a boy...
Page 195 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Page 124 - ... with love: if he be sad, he wants money. BENEDICK: I have the toothache. DON PEDRO: Draw it. BENEDICK: Hang it! CLAUDIO: You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards. DON PEDRO: What! sigh for the toothache? LEONATO: Where is but a humour or a worm? BENEDICK: Well, everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
Page 195 - ... of hearts affected, The seat of peace, the throne which is erected Of human life to be the quiet measure ; Be victor still of Phoebus' golden treasure, Who hath our sight with too much sight infected ; Whose light is cause we have our lives neglected, Turning all Nature's course to self displeasure.
Page 115 - I don't know why I should not tell you all about it, Madelon, though I have said nothing about it to anyone yet — but it will be no secret. I had a letter this morning telling me that there is an opening for a physician at L. — that small place on the Mediterranean, you know, that has come so much into fashion lately as a winter place for invalids.
Page 38 - I don't want you to tell me anything you had rather not. I may depend on your coming to me in any more trouble of this or any other kind V