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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... observe a melancholy - looking , handsome , brick and stone edifice , to the left - where Threadneedle - street abuts upon Bishopsgate ? I dare say thou hast often ad- mired its magnificent portals , ever gaping wide , and disclosing to ...
... observe a melancholy - looking , handsome , brick and stone edifice , to the left - where Threadneedle - street abuts upon Bishopsgate ? I dare say thou hast often ad- mired its magnificent portals , ever gaping wide , and disclosing to ...
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... observation of these holy tides to be papistical , superstitious . Only in a custom of such long standing , methinks , if their Holinesses the Bishops had , in decency , been first sounded - but I am wading out of my depths . I am not ...
... observation of these holy tides to be papistical , superstitious . Only in a custom of such long standing , methinks , if their Holinesses the Bishops had , in decency , been first sounded - but I am wading out of my depths . I am not ...
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... observed , after dinner , carefully to gather up the remnants left at his table ( not many , nor very choice fragments you may credit me , ) — and , in an especial man- ner , these disreputable morsels , which he would convey away , and ...
... observed , after dinner , carefully to gather up the remnants left at his table ( not many , nor very choice fragments you may credit me , ) — and , in an especial man- ner , these disreputable morsels , which he would convey away , and ...
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... observed by two of his school - fellows , who were determined to get at the secret , and had traced him one leave - day for that purpose , to enter a large worn - out building , such as there exist speci- mens of in Chancery - lane ...
... observed by two of his school - fellows , who were determined to get at the secret , and had traced him one leave - day for that purpose , to enter a large worn - out building , such as there exist speci- mens of in Chancery - lane ...
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... observe to one of his upper boys " how neat and fresh the twigs looked . " While his pale students were battering their brains over Xenophon and Plato , with a silence as deep as that enjoined by the Samite , we were enjoying ourselves ...
... observe to one of his upper boys " how neat and fresh the twigs looked . " While his pale students were battering their brains over Xenophon and Plato , with a silence as deep as that enjoined by the Samite , we were enjoying ourselves ...
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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.