A Little English GalleryHarper and Brothers, 1894 - 291 стор. |
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Сторінка 197 - Taylor; and is returned to his old haunts at Mrs. Thrale's. Burke is a farmer, en attendant a better place; but visiting about too. Every soul is a visiting about and merry but myself.
Сторінка 21 - No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Сторінка 100 - I GOT me flowers to straw Thy way; I got me boughs off many a tree: But Thou wast up by break of day, And brought'st Thy sweets along with Thee. The sun arising in the east, Though he give light, and th' east perfume; If they should offer to contest With Thy arising, they presume.
Сторінка 85 - Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge- — That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Сторінка 100 - But groans are quick, and full of wings, And all their motions upward be ; And ever as they mount, like larks they sing: The note is sad, yet music for a King.
Сторінка 101 - Either disperse these mists, which blot and fill My perspective still as they pass ; Or else remove me hence unto that hill, Where I shall need no glass.
Сторінка 69 - ... Charles, and who'll do him right now? King Charles, and who's ripe for fight now ? Give a rouse: here's, in hell's despite now, King Charles!
Сторінка 276 - Noble masses of exquisite marble are there, which might be fashioned to support a glorious temple; and gems of peerless lustre, which would adorn the holiest shrine. He has no lack of the deepest feelings, the profoundest sentiments of humanity, or the loftiest aspirations after ideal good. But there are no great leading principles of taste to give singleness to his aims, nor any central points in his mind, around which his feelings may revolve, and his imaginations cluster.
Сторінка 186 - If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk to converse.
Сторінка 192 - Talking of melancholy, he said, " Some men, and very thinking men too, have not those vexing thoughts. Sir Joshua Reynolds is the same all the year round. Beauclerk, except when ill and in pain, is the same.