The West India Sketch Book ...Whittaker & Company, 1834 |
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The West India sketch book [by T. Wentworth]. Trelawney Wentworth Náhled není k dispozici. - 1834 |
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Strana 1 - I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow; And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts ; Show thee a jay's nest, and instruct thee how To snare the nimble marmozet.
Strana 154 - Let me play the fool:— With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
Strana 165 - in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic, He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute:
Strana 110 - A lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful and successful war, Might never reach us more.
Strana 186 - For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those that toil; And all that Freedom's highest aims can reach, Is but to lay proportion'd loads on each.
Strana 332 - Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's.
Strana 86 - Infirmity doth still neglect all office, Whereto our health is bound, we are not ourselves When nature being oppress'd, commands the mind To suffer with the body:
Strana 346 - envy an unblemished reputation, and what they envy they are busy to destroy; they are unwilling to suppose themselves meaner and more corrupt than others, and therefore willingly pull down from their elevation those with whom they cannot rise to an equality;
Strana 225 - Write them together, it is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well: