The essays of Elia. A new edW. P. Hazard, 1857 |
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... tion , and hopeless ambition of rivalry , as would become the puny face of modern conspiracy contemplating the Titan size of Vaux's superhuman plot . Peace to the manes of the BUBBLE ! Silence and destitution are upon thy walls , proud ...
... tion , and hopeless ambition of rivalry , as would become the puny face of modern conspiracy contemplating the Titan size of Vaux's superhuman plot . Peace to the manes of the BUBBLE ! Silence and destitution are upon thy walls , proud ...
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... life ; or leaned against the rails of a balcony ; or walked upon the ridge of a parapet ; or looked down a precipice ; or let off a gun ; or went upon a water - party ; tion . or would willingly let you go , if he could 6 ELIA .
... life ; or leaned against the rails of a balcony ; or walked upon the ridge of a parapet ; or looked down a precipice ; or let off a gun ; or went upon a water - party ; tion . or would willingly let you go , if he could 6 ELIA .
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... tion . How profoundly would he nib a pen - with what delibera- tion would he wet a wafer ! — But it is time to close -- night's wheels are rattling fast over —it is proper to have done with this solemn mockery . me- Reader , what if I ...
... tion . How profoundly would he nib a pen - with what delibera- tion would he wet a wafer ! — But it is time to close -- night's wheels are rattling fast over —it is proper to have done with this solemn mockery . me- Reader , what if I ...
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... tion of charters , relative to C—— , by which he hopes to settle some disputed points - particularly that long controversy between them as to priority of foundation . The ardour with which he engages in these liberal pursuits , I am ...
... tion of charters , relative to C—— , by which he hopes to settle some disputed points - particularly that long controversy between them as to priority of foundation . The ardour with which he engages in these liberal pursuits , I am ...
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... tion of C. , when he heard that his old master was on his death- bed : " Poor J. B . ! — may all his faults be forgiven ; and may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub boys all head and wings , with no bottoms to reproach his sublunary ...
... tion of C. , when he heard that his old master was on his death- bed : " Poor J. B . ! — may all his faults be forgiven ; and may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub boys all head and wings , with no bottoms to reproach his sublunary ...
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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.