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 25
... once , shame whips them all the week after . Such natures he useth with all gentleness . 2. Those that are ingenious and idle . These think with the hare in the fable , that running with snails - so they count the rest of their ...
... once , shame whips them all the week after . Such natures he useth with all gentleness . 2. Those that are ingenious and idle . These think with the hare in the fable , that running with snails - so they count the rest of their ...
الصفحة 32
... once offer to hinder you from obtaining the title of an insolent , over- weening Coxcombe . By sitting on the stage , you may ( without travelling for it ) at the very next doore aske whose play it is and , by that Quest of Inquiry ...
... once offer to hinder you from obtaining the title of an insolent , over- weening Coxcombe . By sitting on the stage , you may ( without travelling for it ) at the very next doore aske whose play it is and , by that Quest of Inquiry ...
الصفحة 41
... once been seen in an attentive Posture . This the Church - Wardens are ready to attest upon Oath . " ANDREW TERROR , of the Middle - Temple , Mohock , was almost induced by an aged Bencher of the same House to leave off bright ...
... once been seen in an attentive Posture . This the Church - Wardens are ready to attest upon Oath . " ANDREW TERROR , of the Middle - Temple , Mohock , was almost induced by an aged Bencher of the same House to leave off bright ...
الصفحة 47
... once knew in a flourishing state in a forest ; it was full of sap , full of leaves , and full of boughs ; but now in vain does the busy art of man pretend to vie with nature , by tying that withered bundle of twigs to its sapless trunk ...
... once knew in a flourishing state in a forest ; it was full of sap , full of leaves , and full of boughs ; but now in vain does the busy art of man pretend to vie with nature , by tying that withered bundle of twigs to its sapless trunk ...
الصفحة 59
... once more crossed our walks , desiring our pity , and blessing our limbs . I was for going on without taking any notice , but my friend looking wistfully upon the poor petitioner , bid me stop , and he would show me with how much ease ...
... once more crossed our walks , desiring our pity , and blessing our limbs . I was for going on without taking any notice , but my friend looking wistfully upon the poor petitioner , bid me stop , and he would show me with how much ease ...
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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.