Elia and The last essays of EliaMacmillan, 1913 |
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... present volume is that of the first edition of each book - Elia , 1823 , and The Last Essays of Elia , 1833. The principal differences between the essays as they were printed in the London Magazine and elsewhere , and as they were ...
... present volume is that of the first edition of each book - Elia , 1823 , and The Last Essays of Elia , 1833. The principal differences between the essays as they were printed in the London Magazine and elsewhere , and as they were ...
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... present prosperity , with their important faces , as it were , insulting thee , their poor neighbour out of business -to the idle and merely contemplative , -to such as me , old house ! there is a charm in thy quiet : -a cessation -- a ...
... present prosperity , with their important faces , as it were , insulting thee , their poor neighbour out of business -to the idle and merely contemplative , -to such as me , old house ! there is a charm in thy quiet : -a cessation -- a ...
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... present day could lift from their enshrining shelves - with their old fantastic flourishes , and decorative rubric interlacings -- their sums in triple columniations , set down with formal superfluity of cyphers - with pious sentences ...
... present day could lift from their enshrining shelves - with their old fantastic flourishes , and decorative rubric interlacings -- their sums in triple columniations , set down with formal superfluity of cyphers - with pious sentences ...
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... present in the thick of their books , here in the heart of learning , under the shadow of the mighty Bodley . I can here play the gentleman , enact the student . Το such a one as myself , who has been defrauded in his young years of the ...
... present in the thick of their books , here in the heart of learning , under the shadow of the mighty Bodley . I can here play the gentleman , enact the student . Το such a one as myself , who has been defrauded in his young years of the ...
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... present with the Lord . At the very time when , personally encountering thee , he passes on with no recognition -- or , being stopped , starts like a thing surprised --- at that moment , reader , he is on Mount Tabor - or Parnassus - or ...
... present with the Lord . At the very time when , personally encountering thee , he passes on with no recognition -- or , being stopped , starts like a thing surprised --- at that moment , reader , he is on Mount Tabor - or Parnassus - or ...
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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...