Essays of Elia: And Other PiecesG. Routledge, 1885 - 288 pages |
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... believe , little consola- tory to him , or us , the living ones , who saw the better part of our provisions carried away before our faces by harpies ; and ourselves reduced ( with the Trojan in the hall of Dido To feed our mind with ...
... believe , little consola- tory to him , or us , the living ones , who saw the better part of our provisions carried away before our faces by harpies ; and ourselves reduced ( with the Trojan in the hall of Dido To feed our mind with ...
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... believe , would not be lost upon his auditory . I had left school then , but I well remember He was a tall , shambling youth , with a cast in his eye , not at all calculated to conciliate hostile prejudices . I have since seen him ...
... believe , would not be lost upon his auditory . I had left school then , but I well remember He was a tall , shambling youth , with a cast in his eye , not at all calculated to conciliate hostile prejudices . I have since seen him ...
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... believe , beyond all preceding ages , since Jubal stumbled upon the gamut ) -to remain as it were singly unimpressible to the magic influences of an art which is said to have such an especial stroke at soothing , elevating , and ...
... believe , beyond all preceding ages , since Jubal stumbled upon the gamut ) -to remain as it were singly unimpressible to the magic influences of an art which is said to have such an especial stroke at soothing , elevating , and ...
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... believe that , while all the world were gasping in apprehension about me , I alone should stand unterrified , from sheer incuriosity and want of observation . Of history and chronology I possess some vague points , such as one cannot ...
... believe that , while all the world were gasping in apprehension about me , I alone should stand unterrified , from sheer incuriosity and want of observation . Of history and chronology I possess some vague points , such as one cannot ...
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... believe the story of two persons meeting ( who never saw one another before in their lives ) and instantly fighting . -We by proof find there should be " Twixt man and man such an antipathy , That though he can show no just reason why ...
... believe the story of two persons meeting ( who never saw one another before in their lives ) and instantly fighting . -We by proof find there should be " Twixt man and man such an antipathy , That though he can show no just reason why ...
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Page 70 - 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.
Page 251 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 28 - 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.
Page 209 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Page 251 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate : For thy sweet love remembered...
Page 28 - 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 Jamblichus or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar — while the walls of the old Grey Friars...
Page 70 - 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 claps its silver wings; And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Page 209 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Page 118 - See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth ! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood ? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation — from these sins he is happily snatched away — Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care...
Page 149 - I wish the good old times would come again," she said, "when we were not quite so rich. I do not mean, that I want to be poor ; but there was a middle state " — so she was pleased to ramble on, — "in which I am sure we were a great deal happier. A purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money enough and to spare. Formerly it used to be a triumph. When we coveted a cheap luxury (and...