Our Colonial HomesLee and Shepard, 1894 - 211 pages |
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Page 177 - Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw ; And, as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return — and die at home at last.
Page 46 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Page 71 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 91 - It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Page 87 - ... Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? 32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. 33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
Page 155 - In the next place, you know, I love pleasure; but I have renounced all amusement for ten years. What is that worth to a man of pleasure?' 'No great matter,' said Molineux; 'you have made politics your amusement.
Page 56 - I remember it as yesterday ; — I seem still to hold by one hand for protection, (I was of the valiant age of three years) to an elder sister's apron ; — with the other I grasped my primer, a volume of about two and a half inches in length, which formed then the sum...
Page 126 - No, my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out they are another's. Their master.. Magistrate. Their Master: Who do you think is their Master? Martin. If they be dealing in the Black Art, you may know as well as I.
Page 11 - Did not a reverence for religion sensibly decay? Did not our infants almost learn to lisp out curses before they knew their horrid import? Did not our youth forget they were Americans and regardless of the admonitions of the wise and aged, servilely copy from their tyrants those vices which finally must overthrow the empire of Great Britain?
Page 123 - ... you are a liar; I am no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life, God will give you blood to drink.