The Wishing-cap PapersSampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1874 - 455 стор. |
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actor admiration amusing angels appears beautiful better called character Charles Charles Lamb charming Cottington court Covent Garden dancing dear delightful devil dinner Drury Lane Duke eyes face fair fancy feel French garden genius Genoa gentleman George Selwyn give grace green Hampstead hand happy head hear heart heaven Hierarchie of Angels honor imagination King lady Lane laugh Leigh Hunt lived London look Lord Lord Carlisle Lord Cottington lover Madame du Deffand Madame Pasta manner melancholy Molière nature never night noble once one's opera perhaps person play pleasant pleasure poet poor Pope pretty Pygmalion reader scene seems Selwyn sitting sort speak spirit story Street talk Tartuffe taste Tatler tell thee Theoph thing thou thought tion told took trees turn Vale of Health voice walk wish write young
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Сторінка 216 - Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, While the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Сторінка 185 - AND is there care in heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base...
Сторінка 424 - That first excites desire, and then supplies ; Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame.
Сторінка 192 - To Paradise, the happy seat of man, His journey's end, and our beginning woe. But first he casts to change his proper shape ; Which else might work him danger or delay : And now a stripling cherub he appears, Not of the prime, yet such as in his face Youth smiled celestial, and to every limb Suitable grace diffused...
Сторінка 257 - For I was reared In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Сторінка 257 - How oft, at school, with most believing mind, Presageful, have I gazed upon the bars, To watch that fluttering stranger! and as oft With unclosed lids, already had I dreamt Of my sweet birth-place, and the old church-tower, Whose bells, the poor man's only music...
Сторінка 185 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant Against foul fiends, to aid us militant?
Сторінка 143 - He thought he saw an unusual blaze of light fall upon the book which he was reading, which he at first imagined might happen by some accident in the candle ; but lifting up his eyes, he apprehended, to his extreme amazement, that there was before him, as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory...
Сторінка 347 - Falkland was wont to say that they who hated bishops hated them worse than the devil, and that they who loved them did not love them so well as their dinner.
Сторінка 385 - I ever knew, and (what was quite peculiar to himself) had at all times his wit under entire control. Others appeared struck by the unwonted association of brilliant images, but every possible combination of ideas seemed always present to his mind, and he could at once produce whatever he desired. I was one of those who met to spend an evening in memory of Shakespeare, at the Boar's Head, Eastcheap. Many professed wits were present, but Pitt was the most amusing of the party, and the readiest and...