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... character in the world , and himself the greatest accountant in it . " Yet John was not without his hobby . The fiddle relieved his vacant hours . He sang , certainly , with other notes than to the Orphean lyre . He did , indeed ...
... character in the world , and himself the greatest accountant in it . " Yet John was not without his hobby . The fiddle relieved his vacant hours . He sang , certainly , with other notes than to the Orphean lyre . He did , indeed ...
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... character . I have seen your dim - eyed vergers , and bed- makers in spectacles , drop a bow or a curtsy , as I pass , wisely mistaking me for something of the sort . I go about in black , which favours the notion . Only in Christ ...
... character . I have seen your dim - eyed vergers , and bed- makers in spectacles , drop a bow or a curtsy , as I pass , wisely mistaking me for something of the sort . I go about in black , which favours the notion . Only in Christ ...
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... character was as different as that of the inhabitants on the two sides of the Pyrenees . The Rev. James Boyer was the Upper Master ; but the Rev. Matthew Field presided over that portion of the apartment of which I had the good fortune ...
... character was as different as that of the inhabitants on the two sides of the Pyrenees . The Rev. James Boyer was the Upper Master ; but the Rev. Matthew Field presided over that portion of the apartment of which I had the good fortune ...
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... character not likely to let slip the sacred observance of any old institution ; and the ringing out of the Old Year was kept by them with cir- cumstances of peculiar ceremony . - In those days the sound of those midnight chimes , though ...
... character not likely to let slip the sacred observance of any old institution ; and the ringing out of the Old Year was kept by them with cir- cumstances of peculiar ceremony . - In those days the sound of those midnight chimes , though ...
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... character and talents " ( so he was pleased to say ) , " but had not given himself much thought about the degree of my personal pretensions . " The mis- conception staggered me , but did not seem much to disconcert him . - Persons of ...
... character and talents " ( so he was pleased to say ) , " but had not given himself much thought about the degree of my personal pretensions . " The mis- conception staggered me , but did not seem much to disconcert him . - Persons of ...
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Сторінка 115 - s made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside My soul into the boughs does glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Сторінка 84 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Сторінка 27 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare with the English man-ofwar, 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 114 - 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 158 - Bo-bo was strictly enjoined not to let the secret escape, for the neighbors would certainly have stoned them for a couple of abominable wretches, who could think of improving upon the good meat which God had sent them. Nevertheless, strange stories got about. It was observed that Ho-ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever. Nothing but fires from this time forward.
Сторінка 89 - Despair at me doth throw; 0 make in me those civil wars to cease : 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed ; A chamber, deaf to noise, and blind to light; A rosy garland, and a weary head.
Сторінка 33 - Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection, be shy of showing it ; or if thy heart overfloweth to lend them, lend thy books ; but let it be to such a one as STC — he will return them (generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury ; enriched with annotations tripling their value.
Сторінка 26 - Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the dayspring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Logician, Metaphysician, Bard ! — How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula) to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of...
Сторінка 59 - For the first day or two I felt stunned — overwhelmed. I could only apprehend my felicity ; I was too confused to taste it sincerely. I wandered about, thinking I was happy, and knowing that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years
Сторінка 134 - 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, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was...