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I took up a chair softly, and set it down between the hatch and the fireplace, so that while warming my knees I could catch any word spoken more than ordinary loud on the other side of the wall. The chambermaid stirr'd the fire briskly, and moved about singing as she fetch'd down bottles and glasses from the dresser
He found himself repeating them, and there was no doubt that he realized more vividly than do boys generally of his age the meaning of the author: "The world was void: The populous and powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless; A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes and ocean, all stood still, And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths."
But to prevent this, as the Liquor falls or shrinks, add Vinegar to them, which will continue them firm and free from Rotting for two Years. To Roast a Shoulder of Mutton like Venison. From the same. Take a Shoulder of Mutton, and skin it; then lay it in the fresh Blood of a Sheep, well stirr'd with a little Salt, as it is bleeding, for six or eight Hours.
Their Souls one wou'd think shou'd be vex'd at such daring Impieties, and their Spirits stirr'd in them to see such Vices Adored; to find Lewdness vaunting it over Religion and Virtue, and usurping their place in a bold recommending itself to the affections of Men, with all those Advantages God design'd for the Adorning of Things that were really Good.
"Sweeter far than all things heard, Hand of harper, tone of bird, Sound of woods at sundawn stirr'd, Welling water's winsome ward, Wind in warm wan weather," or expressing his fierce hatred for any condition or place where "...a curse was or a chain A throne for torment or a crown for bane Rose, moulded out of poor men's molten pain," or singing the song of a lover
Take as a specimen his translation Of a celebrated passage in the Aeneid: "This child our parent earth, stirr'd up with spite Of all the gods, brought forth, and, as some write, She was last sister of that giant race That sought to scale Jove's court, right swift of pace, And swifter far of wing, a monster vast And dreadful.
"...they could not be Meant to grow old, but die in happy spring, Before one charm or hope had taken wing." As she lightly slept "...her face so fair Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air; Or as the stirring of a deep clear stream Within an Alpine hollow, when the wind Walks o'er it." General Characteristics.
To every quarter of a Pound of Seeds use two Pounds of fine Sugar beaten; unless to Anise-Seeds, use two Pounds of Sugar to half a Pound of Seeds. To begin the Work, put three Pounds of fine Sugar into the Bason with one Pint of Water, to be stirr'd well together till the Sugar is wet; and boil it gently, till the Sugar will rope from the Ladle like Turpentine, and it is enough.
My uncle Toby never felt the consciousness of his existence with more complacency than what the corporal's, and his own reflections, made him do at that moment; he lighted his pipe, Yorick drew his chair closer to the table, Trim snuff'd the candle, my father stirr'd up the fire, took up the book, cough'd twice, and begun. 'Twas natural, said Yorick.
So saying, he pressed her arm forcibly, pulled the bonnet over his brows, and strode out of the apartment. After you're gone, I grew acquainted with my heart, and search'd, What stirr'd it so. Alas! I found it love. Yet far from lust, for could I but have lived In presence of you, I had had my end.
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