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 70
... followed ; we now turned to the right , then to the left ; as we went forward he still went faster , but in vain ; the person whom he attempted to escape , hunted us through every doubling , and gained upon us each moment ; so that at ...
... followed ; we now turned to the right , then to the left ; as we went forward he still went faster , but in vain ; the person whom he attempted to escape , hunted us through every doubling , and gained upon us each moment ; so that at ...
الصفحة 87
... followed by Sir ROGER and the CAPTAIN : Who all agreed that I should be at Liberty to carry the War into what Quarter I pleased ; provided I continued to combat with Criminals in a Body , and to assault the Vice without hurting the ...
... followed by Sir ROGER and the CAPTAIN : Who all agreed that I should be at Liberty to carry the War into what Quarter I pleased ; provided I continued to combat with Criminals in a Body , and to assault the Vice without hurting the ...
الصفحة 97
... followed by Bankruptcy . served his Country as Knight of this Shire to his dying Day : He found it no easie matter to maintain an Integrity in his Words and Actions , even in things that regarded the Offices which were incumbent upon ...
... followed by Bankruptcy . served his Country as Knight of this Shire to his dying Day : He found it no easie matter to maintain an Integrity in his Words and Actions , even in things that regarded the Offices which were incumbent upon ...
الصفحة 103
... followed a profound Silence ; and I was not dis- pleased to observe my Friend falling so naturally into a Discourse , which I had ever before taken Notice he indus- triously avoided . After a very long Pause , he entered upon an Account ...
... followed a profound Silence ; and I was not dis- pleased to observe my Friend falling so naturally into a Discourse , which I had ever before taken Notice he indus- triously avoided . After a very long Pause , he entered upon an Account ...
الصفحة 105
... Awe as made me speechless . This she no sooner observed but she made her Advantage of it , and began a Discourse to me concerning Love and Honour , as they both are followed by Pretenders , and the real Votaries Sir Roger on the Widow 105.
... Awe as made me speechless . This she no sooner observed but she made her Advantage of it , and began a Discourse to me concerning Love and Honour , as they both are followed by Pretenders , and the real Votaries Sir Roger on the Widow 105.
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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.