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... half - mist , half - smoke hover- ing over everything , show me other scenes and forms . Lady Here , in later days , came Hervey , the pleasing refined wit ; and Pope , the cynical unpleasing one . Mary Wortley Montagu ' the emanci ...
... half - mist , half - smoke hover- ing over everything , show me other scenes and forms . Lady Here , in later days , came Hervey , the pleasing refined wit ; and Pope , the cynical unpleasing one . Mary Wortley Montagu ' the emanci ...
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... half of every day in tying his cravat , and the other half in showing the world - his world - how it should be tied . He is not a pleasing object to contemplate through the fleecy clouds of time . Nothing worthier is recorded of him ...
... half of every day in tying his cravat , and the other half in showing the world - his world - how it should be tied . He is not a pleasing object to contemplate through the fleecy clouds of time . Nothing worthier is recorded of him ...
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... half so wonderful as will be that building and its contents . Nor did they see anything much more hu- morous , probably , than will be some of the performances we shall be treated to in Rotten Row by visitors from non - riding but ...
... half so wonderful as will be that building and its contents . Nor did they see anything much more hu- morous , probably , than will be some of the performances we shall be treated to in Rotten Row by visitors from non - riding but ...
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... half the beauty of flowers consists in the graceful shape of each especial spray . Why not let us see the beauty of the shining round camellias , with their delicate notched petals ; and the lily - shaped , slender forms of the azalea ...
... half the beauty of flowers consists in the graceful shape of each especial spray . Why not let us see the beauty of the shining round camellias , with their delicate notched petals ; and the lily - shaped , slender forms of the azalea ...
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... half the winter . A zinc pan made to fit into the dish , either in two pieces or passing overhead , would answer for this most perfectly , and the flowers , when grown in pots , may be trans- planted safely . There are , however , two ...
... half the winter . A zinc pan made to fit into the dish , either in two pieces or passing overhead , would answer for this most perfectly , and the flowers , when grown in pots , may be trans- planted safely . There are , however , two ...
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Page 44 - ... he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Page 257 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Page 265 - Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Page 44 - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit), is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way as will entice any man to enter into it...
Page 46 - ... comfort; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work and her hands kept time to her voicemusic.
Page 318 - Rescue" bullies with swords and cudgels, and termagant hags with spits and broomsticks, poured forth by hundreds ; and the intruder was fortunate if he escaped back into Fleet Street, hustled, stripped, and pumped upon. Even the warrant of the Chief Justice of England could not be executed without the help of a company of musketeers.
Page 79 - Spring's honey'd cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings He furleth close; contented so to look On mists in idleness — to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook: — He has his Winter...
Page 153 - THIS fable my lord devised, to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a college, instituted for the interpreting of nature, and the producing of great and marvellous works, for the benefit of men; under the name of Solomon's House, or the College of the Six Days
Page 154 - GOD bless thee, my son; I will give thee the greatest jewel I have. For I will impart unto thee, for the love of God and men, a relation of the true state of Salomon's House.
Page 46 - As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no two being one by the other, and yet not so far off as that it barred mutual succour : a show, as it were, of an accompanable solitariness and of a civil wildness. "I pray you...