The Essays of Elia and ElianaGeorge Bell & Sons, 1890 - 512 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xxi
... sort of reading , that is to be carelessly glanced through and then laid aside : this is to miss their greatest beauties and their highest use . Even a short sketch of Lamb's life , such as this , would be culpably imperfect did we omit ...
... sort of reading , that is to be carelessly glanced through and then laid aside : this is to miss their greatest beauties and their highest use . Even a short sketch of Lamb's life , such as this , would be culpably imperfect did we omit ...
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Charles Lamb. • as into a common stock . Hence they formed a sort of Noah's ark . Odd fishes . A lay - monastery . Domestic retainers in a great house , kept more for show than use . Yet pleasant fellows , full of chat - and not a few ...
Charles Lamb. • as into a common stock . Hence they formed a sort of Noah's ark . Odd fishes . A lay - monastery . Domestic retainers in a great house , kept more for show than use . Yet pleasant fellows , full of chat - and not a few ...
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... sort of creature . Thence all ideas , that were purely orna- mental , were banished . You could not speak of anything romantic without rebuke . Politics were excluded . A newspaper was thought too refined and abstracted . The whole duty ...
... sort of creature . Thence all ideas , that were purely orna- mental , were banished . You could not speak of anything romantic without rebuke . Politics were excluded . A newspaper was thought too refined and abstracted . The whole duty ...
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... sort of timidity ( his few enemies used to give it a worse name ) a something which , in re- verence to the dead , we will place , if you please , a little on this side of the heroie . Nature certainly had been pleased to endow John ...
... sort of timidity ( his few enemies used to give it a worse name ) a something which , in re- verence to the dead , we will place , if you please , a little on this side of the heroie . Nature certainly had been pleased to endow John ...
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... sort . I confess that it is my humour , my fancy - in the fore - part of the day , when the mind of your man of letters requires some relax- ation ( and none better than such as at first sight seems most abhorrent from his beloved ...
... sort . I confess that it is my humour , my fancy - in the fore - part of the day , when the mind of your man of letters requires some relax- ation ( and none better than such as at first sight seems most abhorrent from his beloved ...
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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...