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... better fate . It was accepted , produced , and decisively damned on the first night . 66 The Essays of Elia , " on which alone Lamb's claim to a name great in literature can be founded , were almost all published during the last ...
... better fate . It was accepted , produced , and decisively damned on the first night . 66 The Essays of Elia , " on which alone Lamb's claim to a name great in literature can be founded , were almost all published during the last ...
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... better our thoughts of them should be vague . But with Goldsmith and Charles Lamb it is not so . We cannot know too much of them . We cannot spare one touch from the picture ; not even a defect . They appeal to us not only as writers ...
... better our thoughts of them should be vague . But with Goldsmith and Charles Lamb it is not so . We cannot know too much of them . We cannot spare one touch from the picture ; not even a defect . They appeal to us not only as writers ...
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... better library - are very agreeable and edifying spectacles . I can look upon these defunct dragons with complacency . Thy heavy odd - shaped ivory - handled penknives ( our an- cestors had everything on a larger scale than we have ...
... better library - are very agreeable and edifying spectacles . I can look upon these defunct dragons with complacency . Thy heavy odd - shaped ivory - handled penknives ( our an- cestors had everything on a larger scale than we have ...
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... - ation ( and none better than such as at first sight seems most abhorrent from his beloved studies ) -- to while away some good hours of my time in the contemplation of OXFORD IN THE VACATION . 9 OXFORD IN THE VACATION ·
... - ation ( and none better than such as at first sight seems most abhorrent from his beloved studies ) -- to while away some good hours of my time in the contemplation of OXFORD IN THE VACATION . 9 OXFORD IN THE VACATION ·
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... memories sacred : -only methought I a little grudged at the coalition of the better Jude with Simon- alubbing ( as it were ) their sanctities together , to make up one poor gaudy - day between them - as an 10 OXFORD IN THE VACATION .
... memories sacred : -only methought I a little grudged at the coalition of the better Jude with Simon- alubbing ( as it were ) their sanctities together , to make up one poor gaudy - day between them - as an 10 OXFORD IN THE VACATION .
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الصفحة 113 - 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.
الصفحة 113 - 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. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, 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...
الصفحة 29 - 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.
الصفحة 158 - Ho-ti trembled every joint while he grasped the abominable thing, wavering whether he should not put his son to death for an unnatural young monster, when the crackling scorching his fingers, as it had done his son's, and applying the same remedy to them, he in his...
الصفحة 516 - LANZI'S History of Painting In Italy, from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the i8th Century.
الصفحة 157 - What could it proceed from ? not from the burnt cottage, he had smelt that smell before ; indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young firebrand. Much less did it resemble that of any known herb, weed, or flower. A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip.
الصفحة 132 - ... grass, with all the fine garden smells around me — or basking in the orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening too along with the oranges and the limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond, at the bottom of the garden, with here and there a great sulky pike hanging midway down the water in silent state, as if it mocked at their impertinent friskings...
الصفحة 158 - Bo-bo was strictly enjoined not to let the secret escape, for the neighbours would certainly have stoned them for a couple of abominable wretches, who could think of improving upon the good meat which God had sent them.
الصفحة 132 - ... with the gilding almost rubbed out, — sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which I had almost to myself, unless when now and then a solitary gardening man would cross me ; and how the nectarines and peaches hung upon the walls, without my ever offering to pluck them, because they were forbidden fruit, unless now and then, and because I had more pleasure in strolling about among the old melancholy-looking yew-trees or the firs, and picking up the red...
الصفحة 132 - Then, in somewhat a more heightened tone, I told how, though their great-grandmother Field loved all her grandchildren, yet in an especial manner she might be said to love their uncle, John L...