Agnes Waring; an autobiography, ed. [Really written] by the author of 'Kate Vernon'. |
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Strona 160 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
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Strona 273 - Creditor claims his just due, and calmly gathers the object of your hatred to His harvest, far away out of your reach, there to be tried by different rules from those by which you would condemn him; while a thousand temptations you could not appreciate, a thousand palliating ignorances and good deeds your narrow, blinded, vision could not see, are mercifully cast into the scale, wherein you, too, ere the dark fire of hatred has well died out in your heart, will be weighed, and found wanting. Long...