English EssaysEdward Everett Hale Globe School Book Company, 1902 - 240 стор. |
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... begin to read , we always end with a kinder and pleasanter feeling about it and , indeed , about everything else . But though Lamb is the first English essayist in point of quality , he was by no means the first in point of time . It ...
... begin to read , we always end with a kinder and pleasanter feeling about it and , indeed , about everything else . But though Lamb is the first English essayist in point of quality , he was by no means the first in point of time . It ...
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... begin to blame my own taciturnity ; and since I have neither time nor inclination to com- municate the fullness of my heart in speech , I am resolved to do it in writing , and to print myself out , if possible , before I die . I have ...
... begin to blame my own taciturnity ; and since I have neither time nor inclination to com- municate the fullness of my heart in speech , I am resolved to do it in writing , and to print myself out , if possible , before I die . I have ...
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... begin with the first vision , which I have translated word for word as follows : " On the fifth day of the moon , which according to the custom of my forefathers I always kept holy , after having washed myself , and offered up my ...
... begin with the first vision , which I have translated word for word as follows : " On the fifth day of the moon , which according to the custom of my forefathers I always kept holy , after having washed myself , and offered up my ...
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... begin the clap of themselves , and at the conclusion of their applause ratifies it with a single thwack . He is of so great use to the play - house , that it is said a former director of it , upon his not being able to pay his ...
... begin the clap of themselves , and at the conclusion of their applause ratifies it with a single thwack . He is of so great use to the play - house , that it is said a former director of it , upon his not being able to pay his ...
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... begin with a very earnest and serious exhortation to all my well - disposed readers , that they would return to the food of their fore- fathers , and reconcile themselves to beef and mut- ton . This was that diet which bred that hardy ...
... begin with a very earnest and serious exhortation to all my well - disposed readers , that they would return to the food of their fore- fathers , and reconcile themselves to beef and mut- ton . This was that diet which bred that hardy ...
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Сторінка 72 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature ; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him.
Сторінка 97 - Shovel ! a very gallant man !' As we stood before Busby's tomb, the knight uttered himself again after the same manner, ' Dr. Busby, a great man ! he whipped my grandfather; a very great man!
Сторінка ix - While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odor assailed his nostrils unlike any scent which he had before experienced.
Сторінка 56 - ... and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished, in the same promiscuous heap of matter.
Сторінка 46 - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Сторінка 43 - ... like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper and my next as prefatory discourses to my following writings, and shall give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work.
Сторінка 77 - I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length said I, " Show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant." The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing...
Сторінка 119 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Сторінка ix - It was observed that Ho-ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever. Nothing but fires from this time forward.
Сторінка 57 - As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius before they are put in execution.