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Passatges populars
Pàgina 85 - As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman ; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows ; Useless each without the other...
Pàgina 21 - He used the left after the same manner, when on a sudden, to my great surprise, he stooped himself incredibly low, and turned gently on his toes. After this circular motion, he continued bent in that humble posture for some time, looking on his book. After this, he recovered himself with a sudden spring, and flew round the room in all the violence and disorder imaginable, until he made a full pause for want of breath. In this interim my woman asked,
Pàgina 32 - Tis a stone, And not a stone; a spirit, a soul, and a body: Which if you do dissolve, it is dissolved; If you coagulate, it is coagulated; If you make it to fly, it flieth. SUB. Enough. [EXIT FACE.] This is heathen Greek to you! What are you, sir? ANA. Please you, a servant of the exiled brethren, That deal with widows
Pàgina 4 - My slumbers — if I slumber — are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not : in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within ; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.
Pàgina 25 - Boschi-like be always in a rage,' to which the following note is appended: 'A useful performer for several years in the Italian operas, for if any of the audience chanced unhappily to be lulled to sleep by these soothing entertainments, he never failed of rousing them up again, and by the extraordinary fury both of his voice and action, made it manifest that, though only a tailor by profession, he was nine times more a man than any of his fellowwarblers.
Pàgina 91 - Books that can be held in the hand, and carried to the fireside, are the best, after all." — Samuel Johnson, "The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Pàgina 5 - Romans, and others, with their concern for and care to prevent the abuse thereof; and also an account of the immorality and profaneness which is occasioned by the corruption of that most noble science in the present age.
Pàgina 21 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Pàgina 3 - Sur les fonctions du cerveau et sur celles de chacune de ses parties, avec des observations sur la possibilité...