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الصفحة xvi
... half humour- ous , more than half melancholy , under - tone of assumed surprise or incredulity , “ Coleridge is dead ! Coleridge is dead ! " And almost the last words he wrote were a tribute to the memory of his friend , perhaps the ...
... half humour- ous , more than half melancholy , under - tone of assumed surprise or incredulity , “ Coleridge is dead ! Coleridge is dead ! " And almost the last words he wrote were a tribute to the memory of his friend , perhaps the ...
الصفحة xvii
... half - indicated name was a real or assumed one , or whether her name was Anna , to whom some of his love sonnets are addressed , perhaps no one can now determine . Whether his suit prospered or not , we cannot tell . There is a hint in ...
... half - indicated name was a real or assumed one , or whether her name was Anna , to whom some of his love sonnets are addressed , perhaps no one can now determine . Whether his suit prospered or not , we cannot tell . There is a hint in ...
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... half - yearly dividends ( supposing thou art a lean annuitant like myself ) -to the Flower Pot , to secure a place for Dalston , or Shacklewell , or some other thy suburban retreat northerly - didst thou never observe a melancholy ...
... half - yearly dividends ( supposing thou art a lean annuitant like myself ) -to the Flower Pot , to secure a place for Dalston , or Shacklewell , or some other thy suburban retreat northerly - didst thou never observe a melancholy ...
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... half- forgotten humours of some old clerks defunct , in an old house of business , long since gone to decay , doubtless you have already set me down in your mind as one of the self- same college - a votary of the desk - a notched and ...
... half- forgotten humours of some old clerks defunct , in an old house of business , long since gone to decay , doubtless you have already set me down in your mind as one of the self- same college - a votary of the desk - a notched and ...
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... half Januses * are we , that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert ! The mighty future is as nothing , being everything ! the past is everything , being nothing ! What were thy dark ages ? Surely the ...
... half Januses * are we , that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert ! The mighty future is as nothing , being everything ! the past is everything , being nothing ! What were thy dark ages ? Surely the ...
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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...