In solitude which thou dost share, For crowds there is no room.
Thou art my rest in grief and care, My light in blackest gloom; In solitude which thou dost share, For crowds there is no room.
Wordsworth has nobly said of Duty what we may more truly say of God: 'Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong, And the most ancient heavens through Thee are fresh and strong.
Who art Thou that dost thus plant Thyself opposite the race, sure that Thou hast no needs like them, but, contrariwise, canst refresh and satiate the thirsty lips of them all?
The way of the just is uprightness: Thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the Just.
Trust in Him, and thou hast come, thou hast asked, thou hast drawn, thou dost possess.
Wherefore the cleaner are thy teeth, the more surely stale dost thou accuse thyself of having drunk.
Dost call it Christian duty and reverence to mother church to kidnap the servants of the altar and put them to the rack as thy people have done?
Dost call the seizing of priests and monks upon the highway loyalty?
Dost not know that the Earl of Gloucester is at hand, to do the thing which he did aforetime at Lincoln?
They tell me thou dost govern as if thou wert a man, and art a man as if thou wert a beast, so great is the humility wherewith thou dost comport thyself.
Ass thou art, ass thou wilt be, and ass thou wilt end when the course of thy life is run; for I know it will come to its close before thou dost perceive or discern that thou art a beast.
Tell me, who bas frenchified thee, and how dostthou dare to return to Spain, where if they catch thee and recognise thee it will go hard enough with thee?
Is it possible, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that thou dost still think that he yonder is a real lacquey?
Thou knowest that my voice is sweet, That is if thou dost hear; And I am moulded in a form Somewhat below the mean.
Dost thou not see--shortsighted being that thou art, and unlucky mortal that I am!
Dost thou mean to say now, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that I did not feel when they were blanketing thee?
Adventures seeking thou dost rove, To others bringing woe; Thou scatterest wounds, but, ah, the balm To heal them dost withhold!
Sancho Panza, that thou dost not know thy neighbour Ricote, the Morisco shopkeeper of thy village?
After this Artabanos said: "O king, since thou dost urge us not to have fear of anything, do thou I pray thee accept a counsel from me; for when speaking of many things it is necessary to extend speech to a greater length.
Thou dost not well in changing thy counsel, nor will he who is here present with thee excuse thee from it; 1301 but as thou didst take counsel in the day to do, by that way go.
Do thou then, since thou didst readily receive us and dost now entertain us magnificently as thy guests, and since thou art willing to give to king Dareios earth and water, consent to follow our custom.
He made answer: "O king, if thou dost in very earnest take counsel with me, it is right that I declare to thee the best thing.
This being so, the Ephors summoned him before them and said: "If thou dost not for thyself take thought in time, yet we cannot suffer this to happen, that the race of Eurysthenes should become extinct.
Thus he spoke, and she made answer as follows: "My son, since thou dost beseech me with entreaties to speak the truth, the whole truth shall be told to thee.
How can I toil, if thus thou dost renew Toil's guerdon, which the daytime should forget?
Well dost thou, Love, thy solemn Feast to hold In vestal February; Not rather choosing out some rosy day From the rich coronet of the coming May, When all things meet to marry!
And king Solomon answered, and said to his mother: Why dost thou ask Abisag, the Sunamitess, for Adonias?
And when he was come thither, he abode in a cave and behold the word of the Lord came unto him, and he said to him: What dost thou here, Elias?
Ahias heard the sound of her feet, coming in at the door, and said: Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why dost thou feign thyself to be another?
Let me quote some words from a teacher you will not accuse of holding to the slave-moralities: Free dost thou call thyself?
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Dost thou think Alexander look'd o' this fashion i' th' earth?
For thoudost know, O Damon dear, This realm dismantled was Of Jove himself; and now reigns here A very, very- pajock.
Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine.
Burnes replied in general terms that the withdrawal of the Sikhs to the eastward of the Indus would be a vast benefit to the Afghan nation; and asked Dost Mahomed whether he would rather see the Sikhs or Sultan Mahomed in Peshawur.
So Shah Soojah—who, however, does not allude to the outrage committed by Dost Mahomed.
Whether this step was taken by Dost Mahomed on his own account, or whether it was recommended or agreed to by his principal partisans, does not very clearly appear.
We refused to detach Kohun Dil Khan from the Persian alliance, and we deliberately drove Dost Mahomed Khan into it.
It was intended to satisfyDost Mahomed on the one hand, and to be suspected by the European allies of Russia upon the other.
He does not appear to have earned a very good name during his connexion with the Company’s army, which he soon quitted, and obtained service with Runjeet Singh—afterwards to seek the patronage of Dost Mahomed, whom he had so foully betrayed.
How sweetly dost thou mix with the blood, and help it through the most difficult and tortuous passages to the heart.
To Riddel, much-lamented man, This ivied cot was dear; Reader, dostvalue matchless worth?
As thy day grows warm and high, Life's meridian flaming nigh, Dost thou spurn the humble vale?
Ay, the same indeed, thou anatomized son of Saint Patrick; why dost thou not get fat?
Dost thou profess the name of Christ, and dost thou pretend to be a man departing from iniquity?
Therefore I unto Tarshish took my flight before: For that thou art a gracious God I know, Of tender mercy, and to anger slow, Of great compassion, and dost oft recall The evil thou dost threat mankind withal.
Thou art engaged because of the profession thou makest of the word of God; for by thy profession thou dost lay both God and his word before thy master, and he hath no other wit but to blaspheme them, if thou behave thyself unworthily.
And he could not; him then was his companion addressing with scornful words: "Arnold, why dost thou strive with me since I am much wiser?
Shame while thou dost live, and a dishonoured grave, for this is the portion of those who would hinder faithful preachers from speaking the Word of the Lord to the men who are setting up GOLD FOR GOD.
And dost Thou subtly, mystically now drip it through the air invisibly upon me?
Thou comest forth in this land, and dost come in peace to make Egypt to live, O thou hidden one, thou guide of the darkness whensoever it is thy pleasure to be its guide.
Thou dost o'er my fields extend Thy sweet soothing eye, Watching, like a gentle friend, O'er my destiny.
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