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 xiii
... Walks >. I . . % Diekens, The Uncommercial Traveller 87. " A Penny Plain and TwopenceCbloured " R. L. Stevenson, Memories and Portraits 419 58. July Grass. ~' . . Richard Jefferies, Field and Hedgerow 425 59. Worn-out Types ...
... Walks >. I . . % Diekens, The Uncommercial Traveller 87. " A Penny Plain and TwopenceCbloured " R. L. Stevenson, Memories and Portraits 419 58. July Grass. ~' . . Richard Jefferies, Field and Hedgerow 425 59. Worn-out Types ...
الصفحة xii
... Walking Stewart 244 " " 257 271 Hazlitt , The New Monthly Magazine 280 Coleridge , A Lay Sermon , 1817 292 Wordsworth 297 John Brown , Rab and His Friends 311 Shelley , Essays 323 De Quincey , Notes of an Opium Eater 78. On the Knocking ...
... Walking Stewart 244 " " 257 271 Hazlitt , The New Monthly Magazine 280 Coleridge , A Lay Sermon , 1817 292 Wordsworth 297 John Brown , Rab and His Friends 311 Shelley , Essays 323 De Quincey , Notes of an Opium Eater 78. On the Knocking ...
الصفحة xiii
... Walks PAGE Carlyle , Miscellanies 366 Thackeray , Roundabout Papers 404 Dickens , The Uncommercial Traveller 410 87. " A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured " 88. July Grass . 89. Worn - out Types 90. Book - buying · R. L. Stevenson ...
... Walks PAGE Carlyle , Miscellanies 366 Thackeray , Roundabout Papers 404 Dickens , The Uncommercial Traveller 410 87. " A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured " 88. July Grass . 89. Worn - out Types 90. Book - buying · R. L. Stevenson ...
الصفحة xiii
... Walking Stewart 244 79 357 271 Hazlitt , The New Monthly Magazine 280 Coleridge , A Lay Sermon , 1817 292 Wordsworth ... Walks PAGE xii Conte .
... Walking Stewart 244 79 357 271 Hazlitt , The New Monthly Magazine 280 Coleridge , A Lay Sermon , 1817 292 Wordsworth ... Walks PAGE xii Conte .
الصفحة xiii
... Walks PAGE Earlyle , Miscellanies 366 Thackeray , Roundabout Papers 404 Dickens , The Uncommercial Traveller 410 87. " A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured " 88. July Grass . 89. Worn - out Types R. L. Stevenson , Memories and Portraits ...
... Walks PAGE Earlyle , Miscellanies 366 Thackeray , Roundabout Papers 404 Dickens , The Uncommercial Traveller 410 87. " A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured " 88. July Grass . 89. Worn - out Types R. L. Stevenson , Memories and Portraits ...
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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.