Elia, المجلد 1Edward Moxon, 1836 |
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الصفحة vii
... and appearance . I have seen him sometimes in what is called good company , but where he has been a stranger , sit silent , and be suspected for an odd fellow ; till some unlucky occasion provoking it , PREFACE . vii.
... and appearance . I have seen him sometimes in what is called good company , but where he has been a stranger , sit silent , and be suspected for an odd fellow ; till some unlucky occasion provoking it , PREFACE . vii.
الصفحة viii
Charles Lamb. odd fellow ; till some unlucky occasion provoking it , he would stutter out some senseless pun ( not altogether senseless perhaps , if rightly taken ) , which has stamped his character for the evening . It was hit or miss ...
Charles Lamb. odd fellow ; till some unlucky occasion provoking it , he would stutter out some senseless pun ( not altogether senseless perhaps , if rightly taken ) , which has stamped his character for the evening . It was hit or miss ...
الصفحة 2
... till thou thyself become as fixed and motionless as the marble effigies that kneel and weep around thee . 2 Journeying northward lately , I could not resist going some few miles out of my road to look upon the remains of an old great ...
... till thou thyself become as fixed and motionless as the marble effigies that kneel and weep around thee . 2 Journeying northward lately , I could not resist going some few miles out of my road to look upon the remains of an old great ...
الصفحة 5
... till late in life , curiosity prevailing over elder devotion , I found , to my astonishment , a pretty brawling brook had been the Lacus Incognitus of my infancy . Variegated views , extensive prospects - and those at no great distance ...
... till late in life , curiosity prevailing over elder devotion , I found , to my astonishment , a pretty brawling brook had been the Lacus Incognitus of my infancy . Variegated views , extensive prospects - and those at no great distance ...
الصفحة 7
... till , every dreg of peasantry purging off , I received into myself Very Gen- tility ? Thou wert first in my morning eyes ; and of nights , hast detained my steps from bedward , till it was but a step from gazing at thee to dreaming on ...
... till , every dreg of peasantry purging off , I received into myself Very Gen- tility ? Thou wert first in my morning eyes ; and of nights , hast detained my steps from bedward , till it was but a step from gazing at thee to dreaming on ...
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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.