'Turnovers' from The Globe: essays and sketches by the best writers of the day, Količina 2

Sprednja platnica
1884
 

Vsebina

Del 19
122
Del 20
141

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Stran 91 - Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do if she find him jealous. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses...
Stran 18 - Who, in their coaches, roll along the turnpikeRoad, what hard work 'tis crying all day, " Knives and Scissors to grind, O ! " Tell me, Knife-grinder, how came you to grind knives? Did some rich man tyrannically use you ? Was it the squire or parson of the parish, Or the attorney...
Stran 29 - Whatever poet, orator, or sage May say of it, old age is still old age. It is the waning, not the crescent moon; The dusk of evening, not the blaze of noon; It is not strength, but weakness; not desire, But its surcease; not the fierce heat of fire, The burning and consuming element, But that of ashes and of embers spent, In which some living sparks we still discern, Enough to warm, but not enough to burn.
Stran 109 - In good years the migrating body of rein-deer consists of many thousands ; and though they are divided into herds of two or three hundred each, yet the herds keep so near together as to form only one immense mass, which is sometimes from fifty to one hundred wersts in breadth.

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