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... PERSON IS A • 433 · 439 LORD • • • • 443 LETTER TO AN OLD GENTLEMAN WHOSE EDUCATION HAS BEEN NEGLECTED . 446 · ON THE AMBIGUITIES ARISING FROM PROPER NAMES 452 • ELIA ON HIS " CONFESSIONS OF A DRUNKARD THE LAST x CONTENTS .
... PERSON IS A • 433 · 439 LORD • • • • 443 LETTER TO AN OLD GENTLEMAN WHOSE EDUCATION HAS BEEN NEGLECTED . 446 · ON THE AMBIGUITIES ARISING FROM PROPER NAMES 452 • ELIA ON HIS " CONFESSIONS OF A DRUNKARD THE LAST x CONTENTS .
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... person who I am inclined to think was the more immediate cause of my temporary phrensy . " However it was , the wooing was of short duration . In the autumn of 1796 came the tragical event that clouded , if it did not altogether sadden ...
... person who I am inclined to think was the more immediate cause of my temporary phrensy . " However it was , the wooing was of short duration . In the autumn of 1796 came the tragical event that clouded , if it did not altogether sadden ...
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... persons of a curious and speculative turn of mind . Old - fashioned , for a reason mentioned before ; humourists , for they were of all descriptions ; and , not having been brought together in early life ( which has a tendency to ...
... persons of a curious and speculative turn of mind . Old - fashioned , for a reason mentioned before ; humourists , for they were of all descriptions ; and , not having been brought together in early life ( which has a tendency to ...
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... person , which it was evident she had not sinned in over - pampering ; but in its veins was noble blood . She traced her descent , by some labyrinth of relationship , which I never thoroughly under- stood , much less can explain with ...
... person , which it was evident she had not sinned in over - pampering ; but in its veins was noble blood . She traced her descent , by some labyrinth of relationship , which I never thoroughly under- stood , much less can explain with ...
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... person to have remedied these abuses , always affected , perhaps felt , a delicacy in interfering in a province not strictly his own . I have not been without my sus- picions , that he was not altogether displeased at the con- trast we ...
... person to have remedied these abuses , always affected , perhaps felt , a delicacy in interfering in a province not strictly his own . I have not been without my sus- picions , that he was not altogether displeased at the con- trast we ...
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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...