Elia and The last essays of EliaMacmillan, 1913 |
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Strana 4
... mean that gentle bending of the body forwards , which , in great men , must be supposed to be the effect of an habitual condescending attention to the ap- plications of their inferiors . While he held you in converse , you felt strained ...
... mean that gentle bending of the body forwards , which , in great men , must be supposed to be the effect of an habitual condescending attention to the ap- plications of their inferiors . While he held you in converse , you felt strained ...
Strana 29
... mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections , spoilers of the symmetry of shelves , and creators of odd volumes . There is Comberbatch , matchless in his depredations ! That foul gap in the bottom shelf facing you ...
... mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections , spoilers of the symmetry of shelves , and creators of odd volumes . There is Comberbatch , matchless in his depredations ! That foul gap in the bottom shelf facing you ...
Strana 42
... means for disproportioned ends ; quite as diverting , and a great deal more innoxious , than many of those more serious games of life , which men play , without esteeming them to be such.- With great deference to the old lady's judgment ...
... means for disproportioned ends ; quite as diverting , and a great deal more innoxious , than many of those more serious games of life , which men play , without esteeming them to be such.- With great deference to the old lady's judgment ...
Strana 43
... mean nothing . I am subdued to an inferior interest . Those shadows of winning amuse me . That last game I had with my sweet cousin ( I capotted her ) - ( dare I tell thee , how foolish I am ? ) - I wished it might have lasted for ever ...
... mean nothing . I am subdued to an inferior interest . Those shadows of winning amuse me . That last game I had with my sweet cousin ( I capotted her ) - ( dare I tell thee , how foolish I am ? ) - I wished it might have lasted for ever ...
Strana 44
... mean - for music . - To say that this heart never melted at the concourse of sweet sounds , would be a foul self - libel.- " Water parted from the sea " never fails to move it strangely . } So does " In Infancy . " But they were used to ...
... mean - for music . - To say that this heart never melted at the concourse of sweet sounds , would be a foul self - libel.- " Water parted from the sea " never fails to move it strangely . } So does " In Infancy . " But they were used to ...
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Strana 74 - 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.
Strana 291 - 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.
Strana 25 - Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. 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.
Strana 92 - twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there : Two paradises 'twere in one, To live in paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new; Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run, And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we ! How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers...
Strana 360 - Why, then the world, and all that's in't, is nothing; The covering sky is nothing; Bohemia nothing; My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings, If this be nothing.
Strana 135 - His father might lay on, but he could not beat him from his pig, till he had fairly made an end of it, when, becoming a little more sensible of his situation, something like the following dialogue ensued. "You graceless whelp,1 what have you got there devouring?
Strana 54 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Strana 111 - It was in this spirit that my little ones crept about me the other evening to hear about their great-grandmother Field, who lived in a great house in Norfolk (a hundred times bigger than that in which they and papa lived...
Strana 27 - ... private purse ; and the thoughts of Bigod were all regal. Thus furnished, by the very act of disfurnishment ; getting rid of the cumbersome luggage of riches, more apt (as one sings) To slacken virtue and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise...
Strana 243 - Town-folks my strength; a daintier judge applies His praise to sleight which from good use doth rise; Some lucky wits impute it but to chance...