English EssaysEdward Everett Hale Globe School Book Company, 1902 - 240 стор. |
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... person talks on and on all day it gets tiresome , however de- lightful it may be for a short time . So with these essays ; they cannot very well be longer than they are . Their very character depends on their being short . Other essays ...
... person talks on and on all day it gets tiresome , however de- lightful it may be for a short time . So with these essays ; they cannot very well be longer than they are . Their very character depends on their being short . Other essays ...
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... person would do well to pause too ravishing for mortal taste , she woundeth and excoriateth the lips that approach her - like lovers ' kisses , she biteth - she is a — 1 Tastes , qualities affecting the taste . pleasure bordering on ...
... person would do well to pause too ravishing for mortal taste , she woundeth and excoriateth the lips that approach her - like lovers ' kisses , she biteth - she is a — 1 Tastes , qualities affecting the taste . pleasure bordering on ...
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... persons of his profession in past and in present times . Rest to the souls of those fine old Pedagogues ; the breed , long since extinct , of the Lilys , and the Linacres ; who , believing that all learning was contained in the ...
... persons of his profession in past and in present times . Rest to the souls of those fine old Pedagogues ; the breed , long since extinct , of the Lilys , and the Linacres ; who , believing that all learning was contained in the ...
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... person of very superior capacity to my own , -not , if I know myself at all , from any considerations of jealousy or self - comparison , for the occasional com- munion with such minds has constituted the fortune and felicity of my life ...
... person of very superior capacity to my own , -not , if I know myself at all , from any considerations of jealousy or self - comparison , for the occasional com- munion with such minds has constituted the fortune and felicity of my life ...
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... persons in my situation are more to be pitied , than can well be imagined . We are surrounded by young , and , consequently , ardently affectionate hearts , but we can never hope to share an atom of their affections . The relation of ...
... persons in my situation are more to be pitied , than can well be imagined . We are surrounded by young , and , consequently , ardently affectionate hearts , but we can never hope to share an atom of their affections . The relation of ...
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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.