Elia, المجلد 1Edward Moxon, 1836 |
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الصفحة ix
... took it , he would say , as a solvent of speech . Marry - as the friendly vapour ascended , how his prattle would curl up sometimes with it ! the liga- ments which tongue - tied him , were loosened , and the stammerer proceeded a ...
... took it , he would say , as a solvent of speech . Marry - as the friendly vapour ascended , how his prattle would curl up sometimes with it ! the liga- ments which tongue - tied him , were loosened , and the stammerer proceeded a ...
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... took occasion in the course of the evening , when some argument had intervened between them , to utter with an emphasis which chilled the company , and which chills me now as I write it- " Woman , you are superannuated . " John Billet ...
... took occasion in the course of the evening , when some argument had intervened between them , to utter with an emphasis which chilled the company , and which chills me now as I write it- " Woman , you are superannuated . " John Billet ...
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... took him for ? We saw all the common symptoms of the malady upon him ; the quivering lip , the cowering knees , the teeth chattering ; and could have sworn " that man was frightened . " But we forgot all the while or kept it almost a ...
... took him for ? We saw all the common symptoms of the malady upon him ; the quivering lip , the cowering knees , the teeth chattering ; and could have sworn " that man was frightened . " But we forgot all the while or kept it almost a ...
الصفحة 42
... took his roast mutton with us in the Temple , to which I had superadded a pre- liminary haddock . After a rather plentiful par- taking of the meagre banquet , not unrefreshed with the humbler sort of liquors , I made a sort of apology ...
... took his roast mutton with us in the Temple , to which I had superadded a pre- liminary haddock . After a rather plentiful par- taking of the meagre banquet , not unrefreshed with the humbler sort of liquors , I made a sort of apology ...
الصفحة 43
... took thee back to thy latest exercise of imagination , to the days when , undreaming of Theatres and Managerships , thou wert a scholar , and an early ripe one , under the roofs builded by the munificent and pious Colet . For thee the ...
... took thee back to thy latest exercise of imagination , to the days when , undreaming of Theatres and Managerships , thou wert a scholar , and an early ripe one , under the roofs builded by the munificent and pious Colet . For thee the ...
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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.