The Essays of Elia and ElianaGeorge Bell & Sons, 1890 - 512 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xxiii
... face ever rise up before us in reading his plays ? Do we ever think of Shakespeare then ? And do we feel anything like the pleasure in a portrait of Shakespeare that we do in looking at Goldsmith's ugly face , redeemed by its touching ...
... face ever rise up before us in reading his plays ? Do we ever think of Shakespeare then ? And do we feel anything like the pleasure in a portrait of Shakespeare that we do in looking at Goldsmith's ugly face , redeemed by its touching ...
Σελίδα 1
... faces of beadles , door - keepers - directors seated in form on solemn days ( to proclaim a dead dividend ) at long worm - eaten tables , that have been mahogany , with tarnished gilt- leather coverings , supporting massy silver ...
... faces of beadles , door - keepers - directors seated in form on solemn days ( to proclaim a dead dividend ) at long worm - eaten tables , that have been mahogany , with tarnished gilt- leather coverings , supporting massy silver ...
Σελίδα 2
... face of the sleeping waters . A thicker crust by this time stagnates upon it . The moths , that were then battening upon its obsolete ledgers and day - books , have rested from their depredations , but other light generations have ...
... face of the sleeping waters . A thicker crust by this time stagnates upon it . The moths , that were then battening upon its obsolete ledgers and day - books , have rested from their depredations , but other light generations have ...
Σελίδα 3
... faces , as it were , insulting thee , their poor neighbour out of business - to the idle and merely contemplative - to such as me , old house ! there is a charm in thy quiet - a cessation - a coolness from business - an indolence almost ...
... faces , as it were , insulting thee , their poor neighbour out of business - to the idle and merely contemplative - to such as me , old house ! there is a charm in thy quiet - a cessation - a coolness from business - an indolence almost ...
Σελίδα 12
... face of things , and that our ancestors wandered to and fro groping ! Above all thy rarities , old Oxenford , what do most arride and solace me , are thy repositories of mouldering learning , thy shelves- What a place to be in is an old ...
... face of things , and that our ancestors wandered to and fro groping ! Above all thy rarities , old Oxenford , what do most arride and solace me , are thy repositories of mouldering learning , thy shelves- What a place to be in is an old ...
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Σελίδα 113 - Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness — The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find: Yet it creates, transcending these. Far other worlds and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
Σελίδα 113 - The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas, Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide : There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various...
Σελίδα 29 - English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, .tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Σελίδα 158 - Ho-ti trembled every joint while he grasped the abominable thing, wavering whether he should not put his son to death for an unnatural young monster, when the crackling scorching his fingers, as it had done his son's, and applying the same remedy to them, he in his...
Σελίδα 516 - LANZI'S History of Painting In Italy, from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the i8th Century.
Σελίδα 157 - What could it proceed from ? not from the burnt cottage, he had smelt that smell before ; indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young firebrand. Much less did it resemble that of any known herb, weed, or flower. A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip.
Σελίδα 132 - ... grass, with all the fine garden smells around me — or basking in the orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening too along with the oranges and the limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a great sulky pike hanging midway down the water in silent state, as if it mocked at their impertinent friskings...
Σελίδα 158 - Bo-bo was strictly enjoined not to let the secret escape, for the neighbours would certainly have stoned them for a couple of abominable wretches, who could think of improving upon the good meat which God had sent them.
Σελίδα 132 - ... with the gilding almost rubbed out, — sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which I had almost to myself, unless when now and then a solitary gardening man would cross me ; and how the nectarines and peaches hung upon the walls, without my ever offering to pluck them, because they were forbidden fruit, unless now and then, and because I had more pleasure in strolling about among the old melancholy-looking yew-trees or the firs, and picking up the red...
Σελίδα 132 - Then, in somewhat a more heightened tone, I told how, though their great-grandmother Field loved all her grandchildren, yet in an especial manner she might be said to love their uncle, John L...