Essays of Elia: Y Charles Lamb; Illustrated by R. Swain Gifford, James D. Smillie, Charles A. Platt, F. S. ChruchG. P. Putnam's sons, 1884 - 501 σελίδες |
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... bring together whatever can be said in praise of them , dropping all the other side of the argument most ingeniously . I remember L. at school ; and can well recollect that he had some peculiar advantages , which I and others of his ...
... bring together whatever can be said in praise of them , dropping all the other side of the argument most ingeniously . I remember L. at school ; and can well recollect that he had some peculiar advantages , which I and others of his ...
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... ; and the contending passions of L. at the unfolding . There was love for the bringer ; shame for the thing brought , and the manner of its bringing ; sympathy for those who were too many to share in it ; and , at top 22 CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.
... ; and the contending passions of L. at the unfolding . There was love for the bringer ; shame for the thing brought , and the manner of its bringing ; sympathy for those who were too many to share in it ; and , at top 22 CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.
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... bring with them a gloom from the haunting memory of those whole - day leaves , when by some strange arrangement we were turned out , for the livelong day , upon our own hands , whether we had friends to go to , or none . I re- member ...
... bring with them a gloom from the haunting memory of those whole - day leaves , when by some strange arrangement we were turned out , for the livelong day , upon our own hands , whether we had friends to go to , or none . I re- member ...
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... bringing him to the gal lows ) . This petty Nero actually branded a boy , who had offended him , with a redhot iron ; and nearly starved forty of us , with exacting contributions , to the FIVE - AND - THIRTY YEARS AGO . 25.
... bringing him to the gal lows ) . This petty Nero actually branded a boy , who had offended him , with a redhot iron ; and nearly starved forty of us , with exacting contributions , to the FIVE - AND - THIRTY YEARS AGO . 25.
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... have noticed as inherent in men of the great race , he took almost immediate measures entirely to dissipate and bring to nothing ; for there is something revolting in the idea of a king holding a private 42 THE TWO RACES OF men .
... have noticed as inherent in men of the great race , he took almost immediate measures entirely to dissipate and bring to nothing ; for there is something revolting in the idea of a king holding a private 42 THE TWO RACES OF men .
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admired April Fool beauty Belshazzar Benchers better Bo-bo Bridget character Christ's Hospital comedy common confess countenance cousin day's pleasuring dear dreams Elgin marble Elia ESSAYS OF ELIA face fancy fear feel gardens gentle gentleman give Gladmans grace hand hath head heard heart Hertfordshire honor hour humor imagination impertinent Inner Temple kind knew lady less lived look manner Margate matter mind moral morning nature never night occasion once passed passion person play pleasant pleasure poor present preter pretty quadrille Quakers reason remember ROBERT WILLIAM ELLISTON scene seemed seen sense Shacklewell sight smile sort speak spirit stand stood story Street supposed sure sweet taste tender theatre thee thing thou thought tion told true truth walk watchet Wheathampstead whist young younkers youth
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Σελίδα 470 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Σελίδα 155 - 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 155 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Σελίδα 35 - CVL, with the 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 54 - ... game and lose another ; that they can while away an hour very agreeably at a card-table, but are indifferent whether they play or no ; and will desire an adversary who has slipped a wrong card to take it up and play another.
Σελίδα 181 - 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, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice...
Σελίδα 218 - ... be pronounced, when the foreman of the jury begged that some of the burnt pig, of which the culprits stood accused, might be handed into the box. He handled it, and they all handled it, and burning their fingers, as Bo-bo and his father had done before them, and nature prompting to each of them the same remedy, against the face of all the facts, and the clearest charge which judge had ever given — to the surprise of the whole court, townsfolk, strangers, reporters, and all present — without...
Σελίδα 182 - We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name...
Σελίδα 218 - It was observed that Ho-ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever. Nothing but fires from this time forward.
Σελίδα 294 - Andrewes' sermons? Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which, who listens, had need bring docile thoughts, and purged ears.