The Essays of Elia: 1st [and 2d] seriesE. Moxon, 1841 |
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... means of his parents ; who now were unable , by their own exertions , to increase it , his mother being in ill health , which con- fined her to her bed , and his father sinking into dotage . On their comfort , however , this , and what ...
... means of his parents ; who now were unable , by their own exertions , to increase it , his mother being in ill health , which con- fined her to her bed , and his father sinking into dotage . On their comfort , however , this , and what ...
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... means , by the exercise of generous principle . Another circumstance , akin to these , tended also to impart a tinge of venerableness to his early musings . His mater- nal grandmother was for many years house- keeper in the old and ...
... means , by the exercise of generous principle . Another circumstance , akin to these , tended also to impart a tinge of venerableness to his early musings . His mater- nal grandmother was for many years house- keeper in the old and ...
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... mean simply bad men and good men ) , a portion as it were of His Omnipresence ! ' Now , high as the human intellect comparatively will soar , and wide as its influence , malign or salutary , can extend , is there not , Coleridge , a ...
... mean simply bad men and good men ) , a portion as it were of His Omnipresence ! ' Now , high as the human intellect comparatively will soar , and wide as its influence , malign or salutary , can extend , is there not , Coleridge , a ...
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... mean- ing which the primitive users of them , the simple fisher of Galilee for instance , never in- " Have you seen Bowles's new poem on he exhausted his stores of tender plaintiveness ? or is he the same in this last as in all his ...
... mean- ing which the primitive users of them , the simple fisher of Galilee for instance , never in- " Have you seen Bowles's new poem on he exhausted his stores of tender plaintiveness ? or is he the same in this last as in all his ...
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... mean not to lay myself open by saying they exceed Milton , and perhaps Collins , in subli- mity . But don't you conceive all poets after Shakspeare yield to ' em in variety of genius ? Massinger treads close on their heels ; but you are ...
... mean not to lay myself open by saying they exceed Milton , and perhaps Collins , in subli- mity . But don't you conceive all poets after Shakspeare yield to ' em in variety of genius ? Massinger treads close on their heels ; but you are ...
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Σελίδα 12 - reckoned, in particular, on my aunt's living many years ; she was a very hearty old woman. But she was a mere skeleton before she died, looked more like a corpse that had lain weeks in the grave, than one fresh dead. ' Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes tobehold the sun; but
Σελίδα 5 - witcombats," (to dally awhile with the words of old Fuller), between him and CV Le G , " which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man of war ; Master C'oleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances.
Σελίδα 32 - love, thou feel'st a lover's case ; I read it in thy looks; thy languish! grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries. Then, even of fellowship, О Moon, tell me, Is constant love deem'd there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they
Σελίδα 32 - sweet pillows, sweetest bed A chamber deaf to noise, and blind to light ; A rosy garland, and a weary head. And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shall in me, Livelier than elsewhere, STELLA'S image see.
Σελίδα 5 - PASS their annals by. Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the day-spring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee—the dark pillar not yet turned—Samuel Taylor Coleridge—Logician, Metaphysician, Bard !—How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still, intranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the
Σελίδα 68 - who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision : and when the court was dismissed, went privily, and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town-house was observed to
Σελίδα 54 - and think what we might spare it out of, and what saving we could hit upon, that should be an equivalent. A thing was worth buying then, when we felt the money that we paid for it. " Do you remember the brown suit, which you made to hang upon
Σελίδα 69 - impart a share of the good things of this life which fall to their lot (few as mine are in this kind) to a friend. I protest I take as great an interest in my friend's pleasures, his relishes, and proper satisfactions, as in mine own. "Presents," I often say, " endear Absents.
Σελίδα 56 - crying, and asked if their little mourning which they had on was not for uncle John, and they looked up, and prayed me not to go on about their uncle, but to tell them some stories about their pretty dead mother. Then I told how for seven long years, in