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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... meet it smilingly , as it were half - way . Come , a handsome sacrifice ! See how light he makes of it ! Strain not courtesies with a noble enemy . Reflections like the foregoing were forced upon my mind by the death of my old friend ...
... meet it smilingly , as it were half - way . Come , a handsome sacrifice ! See how light he makes of it ! Strain not courtesies with a noble enemy . Reflections like the foregoing were forced upon my mind by the death of my old friend ...
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... meet , And renders e'en Disaster sweet : And though the Princess turn her back , Let us but line ourselves with sack , We better shall by far hold out , Till the next Year she face about . How say you , reader - do not these verses ...
... meet , And renders e'en Disaster sweet : And though the Princess turn her back , Let us but line ourselves with sack , We better shall by far hold out , Till the next Year she face about . How say you , reader - do not these verses ...
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... meets me in the forest to - day , shall meet with no wiseacre , I can tell him . Stultus sum . Trans- late me that , and take the meaning of it to yourself for your pains . What ! man , we have four quarters of the globe on our side at ...
... meets me in the forest to - day , shall meet with no wiseacre , I can tell him . Stultus sum . Trans- late me that , and take the meaning of it to yourself for your pains . What ! man , we have four quarters of the globe on our side at ...
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... meet you on the square . He wants a point given him , like an indifferent whist - player . He is so used to teach- ing , that he wants to be teaching you . One of these professors , upon my complaining that these little sketches of mine ...
... meet you on the square . He wants a point given him , like an indifferent whist - player . He is so used to teach- ing , that he wants to be teaching you . One of these professors , upon my complaining that these little sketches of mine ...
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... Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity . I have felt yearnings of ten- derness towards some of those faces - or rather masks- that have looked out kindly upon one in casual encoun- IMPERFECT SYMPATHIES . 107.
... Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity . I have felt yearnings of ten- derness towards some of those faces - or rather masks- that have looked out kindly upon one in casual encoun- IMPERFECT SYMPATHIES . 107.
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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.