Elia and The last essays of EliaMacmillan, 1913 |
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Strana 6
... seemed ruled with a ruler . His pen was , not less err- ing than his heart . He made the best executor in the world : he was plagued with incessant executorships accordingly , which excited his spleen and soothed his vanity in equal ...
... seemed ruled with a ruler . His pen was , not less err- ing than his heart . He made the best executor in the world : he was plagued with incessant executorships accordingly , which excited his spleen and soothed his vanity in equal ...
Strana 7
... seemed pleased whenever it was , with all gentleness , insinuated . But , besides his family pretensions , Plumer was an engaging fellow , and sang glori- ously.- Not so sweetly sang Plumer as thou sangest , mild , child- like ...
... seemed pleased whenever it was , with all gentleness , insinuated . But , besides his family pretensions , Plumer was an engaging fellow , and sang glori- ously.- Not so sweetly sang Plumer as thou sangest , mild , child- like ...
Strana 15
... seemed to them to recur too often , though I thought them few enough ; and , one after another , they all failed me , and I felt myself alone among six hundred playmates . O the cruelty of separating a poor lad from his early home ...
... seemed to them to recur too often , though I thought them few enough ; and , one after another , they all failed me , and I felt myself alone among six hundred playmates . O the cruelty of separating a poor lad from his early home ...
Strana 28
... seemed pleased to be " stocked with so fair a herd . " With such sources , it was a wonder how he contrived to keep his treasury always empty . He did it by force of an aphorism , which he had often in his mouth , that " money kept ...
... seemed pleased to be " stocked with so fair a herd . " With such sources , it was a wonder how he contrived to keep his treasury always empty . He did it by force of an aphorism , which he had often in his mouth , that " money kept ...
Strana 33
... seemed to raise hilarity in all around me , never failed to bring a train of pen- sive imagery into my fancy . Yet I then scarce conceived what it meant , or thought of it as a reckoning that concerned me . Not childhood alone , but the ...
... seemed to raise hilarity in all around me , never failed to bring a train of pen- sive imagery into my fancy . Yet I then scarce conceived what it meant , or thought of it as a reckoning that concerned me . Not childhood alone , but the ...
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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...