The essays of Elia. A new edW. P. Hazard, 1857 |
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... sense of liberty , setting a keener edge upon them ! -How faint and languid , finally , we would return , towards night - fall , to our desired morsel , half - rejoicing , half - reluctant , that the hours of our uneasy liberty had ...
... sense of liberty , setting a keener edge upon them ! -How faint and languid , finally , we would return , towards night - fall , to our desired morsel , half - rejoicing , half - reluctant , that the hours of our uneasy liberty had ...
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... but the town did not give it their sanction . - B . used to say of it , in a way of half - compliment , half - irony , that itwas too clas- sical for representation . piecing out his imperfect sense , as if it had 24 ELIA .
... but the town did not give it their sanction . - B . used to say of it , in a way of half - compliment , half - irony , that itwas too clas- sical for representation . piecing out his imperfect sense , as if it had 24 ELIA .
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Charles Lamb. piecing out his imperfect sense , as if it had been some Devil's Litany , with the expletory yell- " and I WILL , too . " - In his gentler moods , when the rabidus furor was assuaged , he had re- sort to an ingenious method ...
Charles Lamb. piecing out his imperfect sense , as if it had been some Devil's Litany , with the expletory yell- " and I WILL , too . " - In his gentler moods , when the rabidus furor was assuaged , he had re- sort to an ingenious method ...
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... sense of neglect- ill capable of enduring the slights poor Sizars are sometimes sub- ject to in our seats of learning - exchanged their Alma Mater for the camp ; perishing , one by climate , and one on the plains of Salamanca ; Le G ...
... sense of neglect- ill capable of enduring the slights poor Sizars are sometimes sub- ject to in our seats of learning - exchanged their Alma Mater for the camp ; perishing , one by climate , and one on the plains of Salamanca ; Le G ...
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... sense and meaning in it . You are sure that he will make one hearty meal on your viands , if he can give no account of the platter after it . But what moved thee , wayward , spiteful K. , to be so importunate to carry off with thee , in ...
... sense and meaning in it . You are sure that he will make one hearty meal on your viands , if he can give no account of the platter after it . But what moved thee , wayward , spiteful K. , to be so importunate to carry off with thee , in ...
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
admired April Fool beauty Benchers better Bo-bo Bridget character child CHRIST'S HOSPITAL comedy common confess countenance cousin day's pleasuring dear dreams Elgin marble Elia face fancy fear feel gentle gentleman give Gladmans grace guests hand hath head heard heart Hertfordshire honor hour humor imagination impertinent Inner Temple kind knew lady less lived look Malvolio manner Margate matter mind moral morning nature never night occasion once passed passion person play pleasant pleasure poor present pretty quadrille Quakers reason remember ROBERT WILLIAM ELLISTON scarce scene seemed seen sense sight Sir Philip Sydney Sizar smile sometimes sort speak spirit stand sure sweet taste tender theatre thee thing thou thought tion Titian told true truth walk watchet Wheathampstead whist young younkers youth
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الصفحة 26 - CVL , with the 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 84 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
الصفحة 157 - The ears of Ho-ti tingled with horror. He cursed his son, and he cursed himself that ever he should beget a son that should eat burnt pig.
الصفحة 160 - 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...
الصفحة 114 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
الصفحة 112 - I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, I had almost said — for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that watered our pleasant places ? — these are of my oldest recollections.
الصفحة 206 - I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking I am reading ; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
الصفحة 158 - Bo-bo was strictly enjoined not to let the secret escape, for the neighbors 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. Nevertheless, strange stories got about. It was observed that Ho-ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever. Nothing but fires from this time forward. Some would break out in broad day, others in the night-time. As often as the sow farrowed, so sure was the house of...
الصفحة 40 - ... smack of the rough magnanimity of the old English vein ? Do they not fortify like a cordial ; enlarging the heart, and productive of sweet blood, and generous spirits, in the concoction? Where be those puling fears of death, just now expressed or affected ? — Passed like a...
الصفحة 158 - ... it asunder, thrust the lesser half by main force into the fists of Ho-ti, still shouting out, "Eat, eat, eat the burnt pig, father, only taste, — O Lord," — with suchlike barbarous ejaculations, cramming all the while as if he would choke.