Yorkshire Reminiscences (with Others)H. Milford, 1922 - 359 עמודים |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 155 - Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
עמוד 71 - What is the question now placed before society with a glib assurance the most astounding ? The question is this — Is man an ape or an angel ? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels.
עמוד 344 - Here lies the body of Lady O'Looney, great-niece of Burke. commonly called the sublime. She was bland, passionate, and deeply religious; also, she painted in water-colors, and sent several pictures to the exhibition. She was first cousin to Lady Jones; and of such is the kingdom of heaven.
עמוד 344 - She was, — but words are wanting to say what ; Think what a wife should be, and she was that !" Pope was fond of writing epitaphs.
עמוד 344 - Under this stone lies Meredith Morgan, Who blew the bellows of our church organ ; Tobacco he hated, to smoke most unwilling, Yet never so pleased as when pipes he was filling ; No reflection on him for rude speech could be cast, Though he made our old organ give many a blast. No puffer was he, though a capital blower, He could fill double G, and now lies a note lower.
עמוד 200 - ON Jordan's stormy banks I stand, And cast a wishful eye To Canaan's fair and happy land, Where my possessions lie.
עמוד 345 - On a gravestone in the churchyard of Great Wolford : — " Here old JOHN RANDALL lies, Who, counting from his tale, Lived three-score years and ten, Such virtue was in ale. Ale was his meat, Ale was his drink, Ale did his heart revive. — And if he could have drunk his ale He still had been alive.
עמוד 245 - ... wine is surpassed by no product of nature or of art. " The nobler wines of the Rhine, and many of those of Bordeaux, are distinguished above all others by producing a minimum of injurious after-effect.
עמוד 282 - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it's had it head bit off by it young.
עמוד 70 - And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into...