A Century of English Essays: An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson, & the Writers of Our TimeJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1915 - 474 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 23
... believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider . Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be chewed and digested : that is , some books are to be read only in ...
... believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider . Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be chewed and digested : that is , some books are to be read only in ...
الصفحة 37
... believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse , as have never since left ringing there : for I remember when I began to read , and take some pleasure in it , there was wont to lie in ...
... believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse , as have never since left ringing there : for I remember when I began to read , and take some pleasure in it , there was wont to lie in ...
الصفحة 49
... believe , the most learned body of men now in the world and yet this art of speaking , with the proper orna- ments of voice and gesture , is wholly neglected among them ; and I will engage , were a deaf man to behold the greater part of ...
... believe , the most learned body of men now in the world and yet this art of speaking , with the proper orna- ments of voice and gesture , is wholly neglected among them ; and I will engage , were a deaf man to behold the greater part of ...
الصفحة 54
... believe or not : the only remedy is to suppose that you have heard some inarticulate sounds , without any meaning at all ; and besides , that will take off the horror you might be apt to conceive at the oaths wherewith he perpetually ...
... believe or not : the only remedy is to suppose that you have heard some inarticulate sounds , without any meaning at all ; and besides , that will take off the horror you might be apt to conceive at the oaths wherewith he perpetually ...
الصفحة 55
... believe , I have been perplexed what to do with that maxim so frequent in everybody's mouth , that truth will at last prevail . Here has this island of ours , for the greatest part of twenty years , lain under the influence of such ...
... believe , I have been perplexed what to do with that maxim so frequent in everybody's mouth , that truth will at last prevail . Here has this island of ours , for the greatest part of twenty years , lain under the influence of such ...
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الصفحة xiii - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
الصفحة 164 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. 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 189 - MANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period is not obscurely hinted at by their great Confucius in the second chapter of his Mundane Mutations, where he designates a kind of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks
الصفحة 295 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
الصفحة 180 - ... by herself in a lone chamber of the great lone house; and how she believed that an apparition of two infants was to be seen at midnight gliding up and down the great staircase near where she slept, but she said, "those innocents would do her no harm...
الصفحة 183 - I seem to remember having been told, that a bad sweep was once left in a stack with his brush, to indicate which way the wind blew. It was an awful spectacle certainly ; not much unlike the old stage direction in Macbeth, where the "Apparition of a child crowned with a tree in his hand rises.
الصفحة 1 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
الصفحة xiii - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
الصفحة 305 - Praise ye him, all his angels : Praise ye him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light.
الصفحة 73 - Some of them could not refrain from tears at the sight of their old master ; every one of them pressed forward to do something for him, and seemed discouraged if they were not employed.