In the Dozy Hours, and Other PapersHoughton Mifflin, 1894 - 235 من الصفحات |
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... feel as if I had read all the books I want to read , " he wrote disconso- lately to Bernard Barton . " Oh ! to forget Fielding , Steele , etc. , and read ' em new ! " This is a wistful fancy in which many of us have had our share ...
... feel as if I had read all the books I want to read , " he wrote disconso- lately to Bernard Barton . " Oh ! to forget Fielding , Steele , etc. , and read ' em new ! " This is a wistful fancy in which many of us have had our share ...
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... feel his stir and animation pleasantly from without , just as we feel the motion of a carriage when we are heavy with sleep . Pea- cock is too clever , and his cleverness has too much meaning and emphasis for this lazy de- light . Yet ...
... feel his stir and animation pleasantly from without , just as we feel the motion of a carriage when we are heavy with sleep . Pea- cock is too clever , and his cleverness has too much meaning and emphasis for this lazy de- light . Yet ...
الصفحة 13
... cease thinking , and are content to feel . It is an elfin storm we hear beating against the casement ; it is the foam of fairy seas that washes on the shore . " Blissfully havened both from joy and pain , " IN THE DOZY HOURS . 13.
... cease thinking , and are content to feel . It is an elfin storm we hear beating against the casement ; it is the foam of fairy seas that washes on the shore . " Blissfully havened both from joy and pain , " IN THE DOZY HOURS . 13.
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... feeling " that he presses his visitor's " unresisting hands ; " but even this indulgence is of brief duration . Miss Bellenden quickly recovers her hands , and begins to discuss the situation with a great deal of sense and good feeling ...
... feeling " that he presses his visitor's " unresisting hands ; " but even this indulgence is of brief duration . Miss Bellenden quickly recovers her hands , and begins to discuss the situation with a great deal of sense and good feeling ...
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... feeling apparently that the original wrong of having it taken away from her remained in all its force . " But to some of us the anecdote of Edwin and his wheelbarrow is more disheart- ening than droll . The revelation of such ad ...
... feeling apparently that the original wrong of having it taken away from her remained in all its force . " But to some of us the anecdote of Edwin and his wheelbarrow is more disheart- ening than droll . The revelation of such ad ...
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الصفحة 35 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
الصفحة 59 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
الصفحة 194 - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
الصفحة 16 - As, timing well the equal sound, Thy clutching feet bepat the ground, And all their harmless claws disclose, Like prickles of an early rose; While softly from thy whiskered cheek Thy half-closed eyes peer mild and meek.
الصفحة 231 - ... and whether thou art drowsy or satisfied with sleep; and whether ill-spoken of or praised; and whether dying or doing something else. For it is one of the acts of life, this act by which we die: it is sufficient then in this act also to do well what we have in hand. 3. Look within. Let neither the peculiar quality of anything nor its value escape thee.
الصفحة 18 - But gently borne on good man's spade, Beneath the decent sod be laid, And children show, with glistening eyes, The place where poor old Pussy lies.
الصفحة 7 - Thereupon he made her eat up the whole dish ; and afterwards much importuning him to know what it was, he told her at last, she had eaten Coucy's heart, and so drew the box out of his pocket, and showed her the note and the bracelet. In a sudden exultation of joy, she with a farfetch'd sigh said, 'This is a precious cordial indeed ; ' and so lick'd the dish, saying ' It is so precious, that 'tis pity to put ever any meat upon't.
الصفحة 18 - When thou becom'st a cat demure, Full many a cuff and angry word, Chid roughly from the tempting board. And yet, for that thou hast, I ween, So oft our favoured playmate been, Soft be the change which thou shalt prove...
الصفحة 73 - ... which is to keep man from a self-satisfaction which is retarding and vulgarizing, to lead him towards perfection, by making his mind dwell upon what is excellent in itself, and the absolute beauty and fitness of things.