The essays of Elia. A new edW. P. Hazard, 1857 |
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... truth is , he gave himself too little concern what he uttered , and in whose presence . He observed neither time nor place , and would e'en out with what came uppermost . With the severe religionist he would pass for a free - thinker ...
... truth is , he gave himself too little concern what he uttered , and in whose presence . He observed neither time nor place , and would e'en out with what came uppermost . With the severe religionist he would pass for a free - thinker ...
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... truth , were in the world's eye a ragged regiment . He found them floating on the surface of society ; and the color , or something else , in the weed pleased him . The burrs stuck to him - but they were good and loving burrs for all ...
... truth , were in the world's eye a ragged regiment . He found them floating on the surface of society ; and the color , or something else , in the weed pleased him . The burrs stuck to him - but they were good and loving burrs for all ...
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... truth , cared one fig about the matter . He " thought an accountant the greatest character in the world , and himself the greatest accountant in it . " Yet John was not without his hobby . The fiddle relieved his vacant hours . He sang ...
... truth , cared one fig about the matter . He " thought an accountant the greatest character in the world , and himself the greatest accountant in it . " Yet John was not without his hobby . The fiddle relieved his vacant hours . He sang ...
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... truth he wielded the cane with no great good will - holding it " like a dancer . " It looked in his hands rather like an emblem than an instrument of authority ; and an emblem , too , he was ashamed of . He was a good easy man , that ...
... truth he wielded the cane with no great good will - holding it " like a dancer . " It looked in his hands rather like an emblem than an instrument of authority ; and an emblem , too , he was ashamed of . He was a good easy man , that ...
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... truth ? —I feel these audits but too powerfully . I begin to count the probabilities of my duration , and to grudge at the expenditure of moments and shortest periods , like misers ' farthings . In pro- portion as the years both lessen ...
... truth ? —I feel these audits but too powerfully . I begin to count the probabilities of my duration , and to grudge at the expenditure of moments and shortest periods , like misers ' farthings . In pro- portion as the years both lessen ...
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admired April Fool beauty Benchers better Bo-bo Bridget character child CHRIST'S HOSPITAL comedy common confess countenance cousin day's pleasuring dear dreams Elgin marble Elia face fancy fear feel gentle gentleman give Gladmans grace guests hand hath head heard heart Hertfordshire honor hour humor imagination impertinent Inner Temple kind knew lady less lived look Malvolio manner Margate matter mind moral morning nature never night occasion once passed passion person play pleasant pleasure poor present pretty quadrille Quakers reason remember ROBERT WILLIAM ELLISTON scarce scene seemed seen sense sight Sir Philip Sydney Sizar smile sometimes sort speak spirit stand sure sweet taste tender theatre thee thing thou thought tion Titian told true truth walk watchet Wheathampstead whist young younkers youth
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Сторінка 157 - The ears of Ho-ti tingled with horror. He cursed his son, and he cursed himself that ever he should beget a son that should eat burnt pig.
Сторінка 160 - See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth ! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood ? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation — from these sins he is happily snatched away — Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care...
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Сторінка 112 - I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, I had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that watered our pleasant places ? — these are of my oldest recollections.
Сторінка 206 - I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking I am reading ; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
Сторінка 158 - Bo-bo was strictly enjoined not to let the secret escape, for the neighbors would certainly have stoned them for a couple of abominable wretches, who could think of improving upon the good meat which God had sent them. Nevertheless, strange stories got about. It was observed that Ho-ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever. Nothing but fires from this time forward. Some would break out in broad day, others in the night-time. As often as the sow farrowed, so sure was the house of...
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Сторінка 158 - ... it asunder, thrust the lesser half by main force into the fists of Ho-ti, still shouting out, "Eat, eat, eat the burnt pig, father, only taste, — O Lord," — with suchlike barbarous ejaculations, cramming all the while as if he would choke.