Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: To which are Added a Few Poems, Том 1J. Munroe, 1845 |
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... eye - lashes , to which she occasionally alludes herself in her letters . Bussy , however , in his better moods , does justice to her appearance , as well as character , and repeatedly pronounces her , in his letters , the handsomest ...
... eye - lashes , to which she occasionally alludes herself in her letters . Bussy , however , in his better moods , does justice to her appearance , as well as character , and repeatedly pronounces her , in his letters , the handsomest ...
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... eye in traversing this long and well - stored gallery . The collection opens with two or three letters to Ménage , a sort of pedant , who then enjoyed the reputa- tion of a wit . He had some share in the education of Madame de Sévigné ...
... eye in traversing this long and well - stored gallery . The collection opens with two or three letters to Ménage , a sort of pedant , who then enjoyed the reputa- tion of a wit . He had some share in the education of Madame de Sévigné ...
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... eyes and mouth two or three times , and then expired . The ball had carried away a portion of his heart . Funeral orations were delivered in honor of Turenne by the great pulpit orators , Mascaron and Fléchier , upon both of which we ...
... eyes and mouth two or three times , and then expired . The ball had carried away a portion of his heart . Funeral orations were delivered in honor of Turenne by the great pulpit orators , Mascaron and Fléchier , upon both of which we ...
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... eyes at the Court festivals have long since mouldered into dust . Yet we still cling with the deepest interest to the memory of the age of Louis XIV . , because it was the age of Pascal and Corneille , of Racine , Molière , and La ...
... eyes at the Court festivals have long since mouldered into dust . Yet we still cling with the deepest interest to the memory of the age of Louis XIV . , because it was the age of Pascal and Corneille , of Racine , Molière , and La ...
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... eye- sight of the Signor Llorente , that of all the streets and lanes , ( eight in number , ) which open upon the Puerta del Sol , this is by much the smallest , and may not unnat- urally have escaped the notice of an observer whose vis ...
... eye- sight of the Signor Llorente , that of all the streets and lanes , ( eight in number , ) which open upon the Puerta del Sol , this is by much the smallest , and may not unnat- urally have escaped the notice of an observer whose vis ...
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Сторінка 207 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Сторінка 207 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Сторінка 210 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Сторінка 404 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Сторінка 460 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Сторінка 318 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Сторінка 407 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: 850 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Сторінка 317 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.
Сторінка 241 - Greek mythology, a. monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull.
Сторінка 248 - WHILE, lost to all his former mirth, Britannia's genius bends to earth, And mourns the fatal day : While stain'd with blood he strives to tear Unseemly from his sea-green hair...