A System of Practical and Scientific Physiognomy: Or, How to Read Faces ...

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F. A. Davis, 1890

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200. lappuse - t; I have use for it. Go, leave me. — (Exit Emilia). I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ.
368. lappuse - Will you walk into my parlor ? " said the spider to the fly, "'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy. The way into my parlor is up a winding stair, And I have many curious things to show when you are there." " Oh, no, no," said the little fly, " to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair, can ne'er come down again.
454. lappuse - ... one of the most useful as well as one of the most eminent traits in the human character.
298. lappuse - O'er globes, and sceptres, now on thrones it swells ; Now; trims the midnight lamp in college cells : ?Tis tory, whig ; it plots, prays, preaches, pleads, Harangues in senates, squeaks in masquerades.
181. lappuse - ... instrument of a gentleman's education. To teach the meaning of a word thoroughly is to teach the nature of the spirit that coined it ; the secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
475. lappuse - He flapped i" th' air, that from him issued still Three winds, wherewith Cocytus to its depth Was frozen. At six eyes he wept : the tears Adown three chins distilled with bloody foam. At every mouth his teeth a sinner champed, Bruised as with ponderous engine ; so that three Were in this guise tormented.
118. lappuse - They are of weak and defective intellect, though excessively cunning ; and not a few of them are weak-minded and imbecile. The women are ugly in features, and without grace of expression or movement. The children, who become juvenile criminals, do not evince the educational aptitude of the higher industrial classes ; they are deficient in the power of attention and application, have bad memories, and make slow progress in learning ; many of them are weak in mind and body, and some of them actually...
403. lappuse - I wish I had the wings of an angel, to ' have ascended into Paradise, and there to have ' beheld the forms of those beatified spirits, from which ' I might have copied my Archangel : but not being ' able to mount so high, it was in vain for me to search...
298. lappuse - The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns, more or less, and glows, in every heart : The proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure ; The modest shun it, but to make it sure.
298. lappuse - It aids the dancer's heel, the writer's head, And heaps the plain with mountains of the dead ; Nor ends with life, but nods in sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs.

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