The Essays of EliaMacmillan, 1894 - 425 էջ |
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... fancy , the mark of these writers , and many more in whom genius and eccentricity went together , was no matter of choice . It was this that constituted the " self- pleasing quaintness " of his literary manner . The phrase could not be ...
... fancy , the mark of these writers , and many more in whom genius and eccentricity went together , was no matter of choice . It was this that constituted the " self- pleasing quaintness " of his literary manner . The phrase could not be ...
Էջ viii
... fancy . ous . He Another feature of his style is its allusiveness . is rich in quotations , and in my notes I have succeeded in tracing most of them to their source , a matter of some difficulty in Lamb's case , for his inaccuracy is ...
... fancy . ous . He Another feature of his style is its allusiveness . is rich in quotations , and in my notes I have succeeded in tracing most of them to their source , a matter of some difficulty in Lamb's case , for his inaccuracy is ...
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... fancy myself ripening too along with the oranges and limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish pond at the bottom of the garden , with here and there a great sulky pike hanging midway ...
... fancy myself ripening too along with the oranges and limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish pond at the bottom of the garden , with here and there a great sulky pike hanging midway ...
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... fancy — in the fore - part of the day , when the mind of your man of letters requires some relaxation ( and none better than such as at first sight seems most abhorrent from his beloved studies ) — to while away some good hours of my ...
... fancy — in the fore - part of the day , when the mind of your man of letters requires some relaxation ( and none better than such as at first sight seems most abhorrent from his beloved studies ) — to while away some good hours of my ...
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... fancy myself of what degree or standing I please . I seem admitted ad eundem . I fetch up past opportunities . I can rise at the chapel - bell , and dream that it rings for me . In moods of humility I can be a Sizar , or a Servitor ...
... fancy myself of what degree or standing I please . I seem admitted ad eundem . I fetch up past opportunities . I can rise at the chapel - bell , and dream that it rings for me . In moods of humility I can be a Sizar , or a Servitor ...
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Էջ 32 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Էջ 309 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Էջ 310 - 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.
Էջ 171 - See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth ! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood ? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation — from these sins he is happily snatched away — Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care...
Էջ 122 - 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.
Էջ xiii - ... out of doors to come just in time to see the sable phenomenon emerge in safety, the brandished weapon of his art victorious like some flag waved over a conquered citadel!
Էջ 32 - Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben 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.
Էջ 290 - Then, even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me, Is constant love deem'd there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call 'virtue' there — ungratefulness? 94. Sleep /^OME, 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, Th...
Էջ 177 - It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness : for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Էջ 291 - The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness Bewray itself in my long-settled eyes, Whence those same fumes of melancholy rise, With idle pains, and missing aim, do guess. Some, that know how my spring I did address, Deem that my Muse some fruit of knowledge plies ; Others, because...