Essays of Elia: Y Charles Lamb; Illustrated by R. Swain Gifford, James D. Smillie, Charles A. Platt, F. S. ChruchG. P. Putnam's sons, 1884 - 501 стор. |
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... least , such it was forty years ago , when I knew it , a magnificent relic ! What alterations may have been made in it since , I have had no opportunities of verifying . Time , I take for granted , has not freshened it . No wind has ...
... least , such it was forty years ago , when I knew it , a magnificent relic ! What alterations may have been made in it since , I have had no opportunities of verifying . Time , I take for granted , has not freshened it . No wind has ...
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... least , with the idea of the possibility of his becoming one ; his trustful visage clearing up a little over his roast neck of veal at Anderton's at two ( where his picture still hangs , taken a little before his death by desire of the ...
... least , with the idea of the possibility of his becoming one ; his trustful visage clearing up a little over his roast neck of veal at Anderton's at two ( where his picture still hangs , taken a little before his death by desire of the ...
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... least so much from other sources , for D. is not a man to complain . D. started like an unbroke heifer , when I interrupted him . A priori it was not very probable that we should have met in Oriel . But D. would have done the same , had ...
... least so much from other sources , for D. is not a man to complain . D. started like an unbroke heifer , when I interrupted him . A priori it was not very probable that we should have met in Oriel . But D. would have done the same , had ...
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... least we under- stood it ) , but to enforce the uttermost stripe . Old Bamber Gascoigne , and Peter Aubert , I remember , were colleagues on one occasion , when the beadle turning rather pale , a glass of brandy was ordered to prepare ...
... least we under- stood it ) , but to enforce the uttermost stripe . Old Bamber Gascoigne , and Peter Aubert , I remember , were colleagues on one occasion , when the beadle turning rather pale , a glass of brandy was ordered to prepare ...
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... least . He is the true taxer who " calleth all the world up to be taxed " ; and the distance is as vast between him and one of us , as subsisted between the Augustan Majesty and the poorest obolary Jew that paid it tribute - pittance at ...
... least . He is the true taxer who " calleth all the world up to be taxed " ; and the distance is as vast between him and one of us , as subsisted between the Augustan Majesty and the poorest obolary Jew that paid it tribute - pittance at ...
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Сторінка 470 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Сторінка 155 - Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
Сторінка 155 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Сторінка 35 - CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Сторінка 54 - ... game and lose another ; that they can while away an hour very agreeably at a card-table, but are indifferent whether they play or no ; and will desire an adversary who has slipped a wrong card to take it up and play another.
Сторінка 181 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W — n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice...
Сторінка 218 - ... be pronounced, when the foreman of the jury begged that some of the burnt pig, of which the culprits stood accused, might be handed into the box. He handled it, and they all handled it, and burning their fingers, as Bo-bo and his father had done before them, and nature prompting to each of them the same remedy, against the face of all the facts, and the clearest charge which judge had ever given — to the surprise of the whole court, townsfolk, strangers, reporters, and all present — without...
Сторінка 182 - We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name...
Сторінка 218 - It was observed that Ho-ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever. Nothing but fires from this time forward.
Сторінка 294 - Andrewes' sermons? Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which, who listens, had need bring docile thoughts, and purged ears.