Elia, المجلد 1Edward Moxon, 1836 |
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الصفحة 32
... hour of life lightened by thy harmless extravaganzas , public or domestic . Rhadamanthus , who tries the lighter causes below , leaving to his two brethren the heavy calendars - honest Rhadamanth , always partial to players , weighing ...
... hour of life lightened by thy harmless extravaganzas , public or domestic . Rhadamanthus , who tries the lighter causes below , leaving to his two brethren the heavy calendars - honest Rhadamanth , always partial to players , weighing ...
الصفحة 35
... hour I judged him , with no after repentance , to be a person , with whom it would be a felicity to be more acquainted . To descant upon his merits as a Comedian would be superfluous . With his blended private and professional habits ...
... hour I judged him , with no after repentance , to be a person , with whom it would be a felicity to be more acquainted . To descant upon his merits as a Comedian would be superfluous . With his blended private and professional habits ...
الصفحة 36
... through the two or three hours of their dramatic exis- tence ; but no sooner does the curtain fall with its leaden clatter , but a spirit of lead seems to seize on all their faculties . Thy emerge sour , 36 ELLISTONIANA ,
... through the two or three hours of their dramatic exis- tence ; but no sooner does the curtain fall with its leaden clatter , but a spirit of lead seems to seize on all their faculties . Thy emerge sour , 36 ELLISTONIANA ,
الصفحة 47
... hour , ill spared from sleep , to steep her cares , as in some Lethean cup , in spelling out their enchanting contents ! Who would have them a whit less soiled ? What better condition could we desire to see them in ? In some respects ...
... hour , ill spared from sleep , to steep her cares , as in some Lethean cup , in spelling out their enchanting contents ! Who would have them a whit less soiled ? What better condition could we desire to see them in ? In some respects ...
الصفحة 53
... hours of ten and eleven in the morning , study- ing a volume of Lardner . I own this to have been a strain of abstraction beyond my reach . I used to admire how he sidled along , keeping clear of secular contacts . An illiterate ...
... hours of ten and eleven in the morning , study- ing a volume of Lardner . I own this to have been a strain of abstraction beyond my reach . I used to admire how he sidled along , keeping clear of secular contacts . An illiterate ...
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الصفحة 47 - But where a book is at once both good and rare — where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine...
الصفحة 174 - 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.
الصفحة 141 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries...
الصفحة 223 - ... pushed about and squeezed, and elbowed by the poorest rabble of poor gallery scramblers — could I once more hear those anxious shrieks of yours — and the delicious Thank God, we are safe, which always followed when the topmost stair, conquered, let in the first light of the whole cheerful theatre down beneath us — I know not the fathom line that ever touched a descent so deep as I would be willing to bury more wealth in than Croesus had, or the great Jew R is supposed to have, to purchase...
الصفحة 142 - Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low!
الصفحة 142 - 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 149 - 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.
الصفحة vi - I grant you — a sort of unlicked, incondite things — villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than to affect a naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him.
الصفحة 11 - He remembereth birth-days, and professeth he is fortunate to have stumbled upon one. He declareth against fish, the turbot being small, yet suffereth himself to be importuned into a slice against his first resolution. He sticketh by the port, yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are fearful of being too obsequious, or not civil enough to him. The guests think
الصفحة 177 - 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.