Elia. The last essays of EliaW. J. Widdleton, 1871 |
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... thing on a larger scale than we have hearts for ) are as good as anything from Herculaneum . The pounce- boxes of our days have gone retrograde . The very clerks which I remember in the South - Sea House - I speak of forty years back ...
... thing on a larger scale than we have hearts for ) are as good as anything from Herculaneum . The pounce- boxes of our days have gone retrograde . The very clerks which I remember in the South - Sea House - I speak of forty years back ...
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... things ( as they call them in the city ) in his beloved house , or did not sigh for a return of the old stirring days when South - Sea hopes were young- ( he was indeed equal to the wielding of any the most in- tricate accounts of the ...
... things ( as they call them in the city ) in his beloved house , or did not sigh for a return of the old stirring days when South - Sea hopes were young- ( he was indeed equal to the wielding of any the most in- tricate accounts of the ...
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... things , and that our ancestors wandered to and fro groping ! Above all thy rarities , old Oxenford , what do most arride and solace me , are thy repositories of mouldering learning , thy shelves- Januses of one face . - SIR THOMAS ...
... things , and that our ancestors wandered to and fro groping ! Above all thy rarities , old Oxenford , what do most arride and solace me , are thy repositories of mouldering learning , thy shelves- Januses of one face . - SIR THOMAS ...
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... thing surprised at that moment , reader , he is on Mount Tabor- or Parnassus or co - sphered with Plato - or , with Harrington , framing " immortal commonwealths " devising some plan of amelioration to thy country , or thy species ...
... thing surprised at that moment , reader , he is on Mount Tabor- or Parnassus or co - sphered with Plato - or , with Harrington , framing " immortal commonwealths " devising some plan of amelioration to thy country , or thy species ...
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... thing ) , and brought him daily by his maid or aunt ! I remember the good old relative ( in whom love forbade pride ) squatting down upon some odd stone in a by - nook of the cloisters , disclosing the viands ( of higher regale than ...
... thing ) , and brought him daily by his maid or aunt ! I remember the good old relative ( in whom love forbade pride ) squatting down upon some odd stone in a by - nook of the cloisters , disclosing the viands ( of higher regale than ...
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الصفحة 375 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace ; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
الصفحة 148 - 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 43 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
الصفحة 353 - Despair at me doth throw; 0 make in me those civil wars to cease; 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
الصفحة 377 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
الصفحة 355 - Doth lour, nay chide, nay threat, for only this. Sweet, it was saucy LOVE, not humble I. But no 'scuse serves ; she makes her wrath appear In beauty's throne — see now who dares come near Those scarlet judges, threat'ning bloody pain ? O heav'nly Fool, thy most kiss-worthy face Anger invests with such a lovely grace, That anger's self I needs must kiss again.
الصفحة 317 - Tis not sic cauld that makes me cry, But my Love's heart grown cauld to me. When we came in by Glasgow town We were a comely sight to see : My Love was clad in the black velvet, And I myself in cramasie.
الصفحة 171 - I in particular used to spend many hours by myself in gazing upon the old busts of the twelve Caesars, that had been Emperors of Rome, till the old marble heads would seem to live again, or I to be turned into marble with them...
الصفحة 146 - Themmes brode aged back doth ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers. There whylome wont the Templer knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride.
الصفحة 260 - ... prosperity, — an unwelcome remembrancer, — a perpetually recurring mortification, — a drain on your purse, a more intolerable dun upon your pride, — a drawback upon success, — a rebuke to your rising, — a stain in your blood, — a blot on your 'scutcheon...