Essays of Elia: And Other PiecesG. Routledge, 1885 - 288 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 13
... present prosperity , with their im- portant 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 ...
... present prosperity , with their im- portant 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 ...
Σελίδα 14
... present tenant of them is a Mr. Lamb , a gentle- man who is happy in the possession of some choice pictures , and among them a rare portrait of Milton , which I mean to do myself the pleasure of going to see , and at the same time to ...
... present tenant of them is a Mr. Lamb , a gentle- man who is happy in the possession of some choice pictures , and among them a rare portrait of Milton , which I mean to do myself the pleasure of going to see , and at the same time to ...
Σελίδα 17
... present in the thick of their books , here in the heart of learning , under the shadow of the mighty Bodley . I can here play the gentleman , enact the student . To such a one as my- self , who has been defrauded in a young years of the ...
... present in the thick of their books , here in the heart of learning , under the shadow of the mighty Bodley . I can here play the gentleman , enact the student . To such a one as my- self , who has been defrauded in a young years of the ...
Σελίδα 20
... present with the Lord . At the very time when , personally encountering thee , he passes on with no recognition - or , being stopped , starts like a thing surprised - at that moment , reader , he is on Mount Tabor - or Parnassus - or co ...
... present with the Lord . At the very time when , personally encountering thee , he passes on with no recognition - or , being stopped , starts like a thing surprised - at that moment , reader , he is on Mount Tabor - or Parnassus - or co ...
Σελίδα 21
... present worthy sub - treasurer to the Inner Temple can explain how that happened . He had his tea and hot rolls in the morning , while we were battening upon our quarter of a penny loaf -our crug - moistened with attenuated small beer ...
... present worthy sub - treasurer to the Inner Temple can explain how that happened . He had his tea and hot rolls in the morning , while we were battening upon our quarter of a penny loaf -our crug - moistened with attenuated small beer ...
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Σελίδα 70 - 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 251 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Σελίδα 28 - English man-ofwar, 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 209 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Σελίδα 251 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate : For thy sweet love remembered...
Σελίδα 28 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge — logician, metaphysician, bard ! How have I seen the casual passer through the cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula), to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of Jamblichus or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar — while the walls of the old Grey Friars...
Σελίδα 70 - 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 light.
Σελίδα 209 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Σελίδα 118 - See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth ! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood ? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation — from these sins he is happily snatched away — Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care...
Σελίδα 149 - I wish the good old times would come again," she said, "when we were not quite so rich. I do not mean, that I want to be poor ; but there was a middle state " — so she was pleased to ramble on, — "in which I am sure we were a great deal happier. A purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money enough and to spare. Formerly it used to be a triumph. When we coveted a cheap luxury (and...