The Students' Cabinet Library of Useful Tracts, Volum 3T. Clark., 1836 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 260 - Being appointed to preach the sermon on the Gunpowder Plot, (1684,) at the Rolls Chapel, I took for my text, ' Save me from the lion's mouth ; thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorn.
Pàgina 262 - I need not tell you, good doctor, how little capable I have been of such an exercise as this. You will soon find how unfit I am still for it, since my yet disordered thoughts can offer me no other than such words as express the deepest sorrows, and confused as my yet amazed mind is. But such men as you, and particularly one so much my friend, will, I know, bear with my weakness, and compassionate my distress, as you have already done by your good letter and excellent prayer. I...
Pàgina 262 - ... silent under it; but yet secretly my heart mourns, too sadly I fear, and cannot be comforted, because I have not the dear companion and sharer of all my joys and sorrows. I want him to talk with, to walk with, to eat and sleep with; all these things are irksome to me now; the day unwelcome, and the night so, too; all company and meals I would avoid if it might be...
Pàgina 282 - I can say, unless thy law had been my delight, I should have perished in my trouble.
Pàgina 262 - I know I have deserved my punishment, and will be silent under it; but yet secretly my heart mourns, too sadly I fear, and cannot be comforted, because I have not the dear companion and sharer of all my joys and sorrows, I want him to talk with, to walk with, to cut and sleep with ; all these things are irksome to me...
Pàgina 197 - I hate putting people into fusses, either with themselves, or their favourites ; it looks as if one did it on purpose. The party went off very well, and the fish was very much to my gusto. But we got up too soon after the women; and Mrs. Corinne always lingers so long after dinner, that we wish her in — the drawing-room. "To-day C. called, and, while sitting here, in came Merivale. During our colloquy, C. (ignorant that M. was the writer) abused the ' mawkishness of the Quarterly Review of Grimm's...
Pàgina 256 - When he came to the scaffold, he walked about it four or five times. Then he turned to the sheriffs, and delivered his paper. He...
Pàgina 235 - I am not like to leave Stratton with greater. They will tell you how well I got hither, and how well I found our dear treasure here: your boy will please you; you will, I think, find him improved, though I tell you so beforehand. They fancy he wanted you; for, as soon as I alighted, he followed, calling Papa...
Pàgina 219 - I do merit to so desirable a blessing ; but, my best life, you that know so well how to love and to oblige, make my felicity entire, by believing my heart possessed with all the gratitude, honour, and passionate affection to your person, any creature is capable of, or can be obliged to...
Pàgina 263 - I did steadfastly believe, I could not be dejected ; for I will not injure myself to say, I offer my mind any inferior consolation to supply this loss. No ; I most willingly forsake this world, this vexatious, troublesome world, in which I have no other business, but to rid my soul...