Essays from Elia ...J.R. Osgood and Company, 1877 - 94 σελίδες |
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... tion of my arguments on her favorite topic that evening I have always fancied myself indebted to the legacy of a curious cribbage- board , made of the finest Sienna marble , which her maternal uncle ( old Walter Plumer , whom I have ...
... tion of my arguments on her favorite topic that evening I have always fancied myself indebted to the legacy of a curious cribbage- board , made of the finest Sienna marble , which her maternal uncle ( old Walter Plumer , whom I have ...
Σελίδα 27
... tion doubles ( by taking off the invidiousness ) your glory . Two losing to two are better reconciled than one to one in that close butch- ery . The hostile feeling is weakened by multiplying the channels . War becomes a civil game ...
... tion doubles ( by taking off the invidiousness ) your glory . Two losing to two are better reconciled than one to one in that close butch- ery . The hostile feeling is weakened by multiplying the channels . War becomes a civil game ...
Σελίδα 36
... Court of Illyria ? You used to say that the gallery was the best place of all for enjoying a play socially ; that the relish of such exhibitions must be in propor- tion to the infrequency of going ; that the company 36 ESSAYS FROM ELIA .
... Court of Illyria ? You used to say that the gallery was the best place of all for enjoying a play socially ; that the relish of such exhibitions must be in propor- tion to the infrequency of going ; that the company 36 ESSAYS FROM ELIA .
Σελίδα 37
Charles Lamb. tion to the infrequency of going ; that the company we met there , not being in general readers of plays , were obliged to attend the more , and did attend , to what was going on on the stage , because a word lost would ...
Charles Lamb. tion to the infrequency of going ; that the company we met there , not being in general readers of plays , were obliged to attend the more , and did attend , to what was going on on the stage , because a word lost would ...
Σελίδα 42
... tion . He sticketh by the port , yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret , if a stranger press it upon him . He is a puzzle to the servants , who are fearful of being too obsequious , or not civil enough , to ...
... tion . He sticketh by the port , yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret , if a stranger press it upon him . He is a puzzle to the servants , who are fearful of being too obsequious , or not civil enough , to ...
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acquaintance ALFRED TENNYSON Alice animal appetite banquet better blessing Bo-bo boards BOSTON Bridget burnt pig called capot cards CHARLES DICKENS CHARLES LAMB china Chinese Congregationalist cousin cribbage DAY'S PLEASURE dear dinner dish Elba Elliston EMERSON epicure esteem fancied father favor FAVORITE POEMS FAVORITE feel gallery gentleman glory grace gratitude great-grandmother Field guest H. W. LONGFELLOW hand Ho-ti holiday humble husband impertinent JAMES John John L kind knew lady lame-footed less Little Classics look manner marriage married meat nectarines ness never nice observed OSGOOD palate person play pleasant pleasure POEMS FAVORITE POEMS Poor Relation pretext pretty proper quadrille Quaker quarrel relish remember rich ROAST Sarah Battle savory seems sort spirit stood sweet T. B. ALDRICH taste tender theatre thing thought tion uncle W. D. HOWELLS walk whist woman young
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Σελίδα 58 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness...
Σελίδα 20 - These insufferable triflers are the curse of a table. One of these flies will spoil a whole pot. Of such it may be said that they do not play at cards, but only play at playing at them.
Σελίδα 79 - Into the desert, and how there he slept Under a juniper ; then how, awaked, He found his supper on the coals prepared, And by the angel was bid rise and eat, And eat the second time after repose, The strength whereof sufficed him forty days : Sometimes that with Elijah he partook, Or as a guest with Daniel at his pulse.
Σελίδα 6 - Bo-bo was in the utmost consternation, as you may think, not so much for the sake of the tenement, which his father and he could easily build up again with a few dry branches and the labour of an hour or two at any time, as for the loss of the pigs.
Σελίδα 16 - ... my recollection, and the pleasure, and the curiosity I had taken in seeing her make it, and her joy when she sent it to the oven, and how disappointed she would feel that I had never had a bit of it in my mouth at last — and I blamed my impertinent spirit of alms-giving, and out-of-place...
Σελίδα 78 - Him thought, he by the brook of Cherith stood, And saw the ravens with their horny beaks Food to Elijah bringing, even and morn, Though ravenous, taught to abstain from what they brought...
Σελίδα 7 - ... surrendering himself up to the newborn pleasure, he fell to tearing up whole handfuls of the scorched skin with the flesh next it, and was cramming it down his throat in his beastly fashion, when his sire entered amid the smoking rafters, armed with...
Σελίδα 54 - ... decay, and was nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments stripped and carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " that would be foolish indeed.
Σελίδα 13 - Death came with timely care — his memory is odoriferous — no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon — no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages — he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure — and for such a tomb might be content to die.
Σελίδα 5 - MANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period is not obscurely hinted at by their great Confucius in the second chapter of his Mundane Mutations, where he designates a kind of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks