Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!
The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!
My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.
"Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?"
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie.
the sight of me is good for sore eyes
... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.
Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.
Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?
If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may, no matter how generous and good his nature, one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so.
The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.
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