The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The note-books of Samuel Butler

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J. Cape, 1926
 

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Página 23 - The barks of trees thou browsed'st: on the Alps, It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh, Which some did die to look on ; and all this (It wounds thine honour that I speak it now) Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek So much as lank'd not. Lep. Tis pity of him. Cces. Let his shames quickly Drive him to Rome. 'Tis time we twain Did show ourselves i...
Página 20 - OUT of the deep have I called unto thee, O LORD ; LORD, hear my voice. 0 let thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint. If thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss; O LORD, who may abide it ? For there is mercy with thee: therefore shalt thou be feared.
Página 161 - What then? Notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached ; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Página 214 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Página 266 - Hey, Diddle, Diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.
Página 54 - In the moral government of the world, it seems evidently necessary, that the sins of the fathers should be visited upon the children...
Página 221 - The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Página 421 - if ever there was a sober creetur to be got at eighteen pence a day for working people, and three and six for gentlefolks - night watching,"' said Mrs Gamp with emphasis, '"being a extra charge - you are that inwallable person.
Página 208 - Solid is a man of much reading, who utters nothing but quotations ; but having been, I suppose, too confident of his memory, he has for some time neglected his books, and his stock grows every day more scanty. Mr. Solid has found an opportunity every night to repeat, from Hudibras, Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat...
Página 203 - All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

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