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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... - I was as good as an almanac in those days . I could have told you such a saint's day falls out next week , or the week after . Per- adventure the Epiphany , by some periodical infelicity , would 14 OXFORD IN THE VACATION .
... - I was as good as an almanac in those days . I could have told you such a saint's day falls out next week , or the week after . Per- adventure the Epiphany , by some periodical infelicity , would 14 OXFORD IN THE VACATION .
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... told he had run away . This was the punishment for the first offence . As a novice I was soon after taken to see the dungeons . These were little , square , Bedlam cells , where a boy could just lie at his length upon straw and a ...
... told he had run away . This was the punishment for the first offence . As a novice I was soon after taken to see the dungeons . These were little , square , Bedlam cells , where a boy could just lie at his length upon straw and a ...
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... told me , was her first love ; but whist had engaged her maturer esteem . The former , she said , was showy and specious , and likely to allure young persons . The uncertainty and quick shifting of partners a thing which the constancy ...
... told me , was her first love ; but whist had engaged her maturer esteem . The former , she said , was showy and specious , and likely to allure young persons . The uncertainty and quick shifting of partners a thing which the constancy ...
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... you . I love the safety , which a palpable hallucination warrants ; the security , which a word out of season rati- fies . And take my word for this , reader , and say a fool told it to you , if you please , that ALL FOOL'S DAY . 79.
... you . I love the safety , which a palpable hallucination warrants ; the security , which a word out of season rati- fies . And take my word for this , reader , and say a fool told it to you , if you please , that ALL FOOL'S DAY . 79.
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... told it to you , if you please , that he who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture , hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition . It is observed , that " the foolisher the fowl or fish , -woodcocks - dotterels - cods ' heads ...
... told it to you , if you please , that he who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture , hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition . It is observed , that " the foolisher the fowl or fish , -woodcocks - dotterels - cods ' heads ...
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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.