His eyes peruse But thoughts meander far away-- Ideas, desires and woes confuse His intellect in close array.
VI Now for the first time I my Muse Lead into good society, Her steppe-like beauties I peruse With jealous fear, anxiety.
Captain, your love Is ever welcome; I intreat your patience While I peruse these.
Indeed, the picture she drew was so moving, and her expressions so sensibly pathetic, that no person, whose heart was not altogether callous, couldperuse it without emotion.
He was so much affected at sight of those well-known characters, that he stood motionless as a statue, eager to know the contents, yet afraid to peruse the billet.
Our hero was so well pleased with this picture, that he longed toperuse the original, and, before these two friends parted, they settled all the operations of the campaign.
I am a traveller, who, having surveyed most of the terrestrial angles of this globe, am hither arrived, to peruse this little spot.
I am a traveller who, having surveyed most of the terrestrial angles of this globe, am hither arrived, to peruse this little spot.
In leisure moments it was one of his chief recreations to peruse lovingly those aged pictures, and at the image of John Bull he never failed to think: 'Fancy making an Englishman out a fat fellow like that!
After having detained the reader so long with our own dull remarks, it will be refreshing to him to peruse a few specimens of Mr Scott's more enlivening strains.
God forbid that I should write these lines, or that my Catholic readers should peruse them in a boasting and vaunting spirit.
Not only are Catholics instructed in church on Sundays but they are exhorted to peruse the Word of God, and manuals of devotion, at home.
Peruse and observe all the directions in the last chapter against evil-speaking and backbiting, that I may not need to repeat them: especially avoid, 1.
We are accustomed to peruse our Willoughby, and we know him by a shadow.
And if you ask whether a man, sensitive and a lover, can be so blinded, you are condemned to re-peruse the foregoing paragraph.
To understand this, we have only to perusesuch documents as the address of Tertullian to Scapula.
Who can peruse the annals of the emperors without being shocked at the manner in which men died, meeting their fate with the obtuse tranquillity that characterizes beasts?
We may pit the one critic against the other, and so leave them, while we peruse the letters, and form an opinion for ourselves.
Miss Sneyd, who was in the secret, led him to peruse it quickly.
Having given you these directions, I most earnestly beseech you to peruse and practise them, that my labour may not rise up as a witness against you, which I intend for your conversion and salvation.
But a book we may read over and over till we remember it; and if we forget it, may again peruse it at our pleasure, or at our leisure.
To this end, peruse well the covenant of grace which is offered thee in the gospel: understand it well.
We use strong language, but should any of our readers peruse the book, (from which calamity Heaven preserve them!
His success in the end was well deserved, and perhaps the lesson his doings teach will not be lost upon those who peruse these pages.
I then set myself to perusesuch books as Flavia recommended, and heard her opinion of their beauties and defects.
Peruse this writing here, and thou shalt know The treason that my haste forbids me show.
Men that look upon my outside, and who peruse only my conditions and my fortunes, do err in my altitude.
