Essays and Tales in Prose, Հատոր 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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... Sophy Ellesmere ( for that was her name ) was the daughter of a small landed proprietor in Charwood . She was an only child the offspring of a selfish , wilful father , and a patient , housewife - like little woman , who , through ...
... Sophy Ellesmere ( for that was her name ) was the daughter of a small landed proprietor in Charwood . She was an only child the offspring of a selfish , wilful father , and a patient , housewife - like little woman , who , through ...
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... Sophy was about sixteen years of age she became an orphan . Both her parents died in the same week - the one through some fit ( of apoplexy or paralysis , ) caused by violent passion ; the other by incessant watching , by exposure and ...
... Sophy was about sixteen years of age she became an orphan . Both her parents died in the same week - the one through some fit ( of apoplexy or paralysis , ) caused by violent passion ; the other by incessant watching , by exposure and ...
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... Sophy , who had originally begun with her a course of French and Italian , now took lessons in a more useful science— namely , that of practical philosophy . Madame de Mercet at first wept with her pupil , afterwards soothed her , and ...
... Sophy , who had originally begun with her a course of French and Italian , now took lessons in a more useful science— namely , that of practical philosophy . Madame de Mercet at first wept with her pupil , afterwards soothed her , and ...
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... Sophy ; to whom it is now time to return . ' Six days after the death of her parents , Sophy Elles- mere ( now sixteen years of age ) heard the will of her father read , and found herself placed under the guar- dianship of Mr. Dacre , a ...
... Sophy ; to whom it is now time to return . ' Six days after the death of her parents , Sophy Elles- mere ( now sixteen years of age ) heard the will of her father read , and found herself placed under the guar- dianship of Mr. Dacre , a ...
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... Sophy Ellesmere . We shall cut the matter short , by saying simply that they fell over head - and - ears in love according to the most approved fashion . They sighed , and whispered , and languished , and looked unutterable things . The ...
... Sophy Ellesmere . We shall cut the matter short , by saying simply that they fell over head - and - ears in love according to the most approved fashion . They sighed , and whispered , and languished , and looked unutterable things . The ...
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Էջ 23 - and, when I have required Some heavenly music (which even now I do), To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I '11 break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I '11 drown my book.
Էջ 16 - honor his memory, on this side of idolatry, as much as any : he was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature ;' and the editors of the folio edition of the plays, say that they have collected them ' to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakspere.
Էջ 15 - Englishman 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
Էջ 15 - galleon and an English man of war. Master Jonson, like the former, was built far higher in learning; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakspere, like an
Էջ 16 - retired to his native town of Stratford. He had previously purchased one of the best houses there, called ' New Place,' and in this house he lived and died. He was buried on the 25th of April, 1616, on the north side of the chancel of the great church of Stratford. A monument was shortly
Էջ 14 - The following is Fuller's account of Shakspere, in his ' WORTHIES OF ENGLAND :' 'He was an eminent instance of the truth of that rule, ' poeta non fit, sed nasdtur: one is not made but born a poet.
Էջ 17 - to his memory. The artist has represented him in a sitting posture, with a pen in his right hand, and his left resting on a scroll of paper; and on the cushion which appears spread out before him, are engraved the following lines
Էջ 53 - and are involved (parenthetically) in the dialogue, without impeding it; such as, in ' ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA,' where Antony speaks of ' Our slippery people ( Whose love is never linked to the deserver, Till his deserts
Էջ 56 - or infirmity peculiar to himself. But I should do neither. For his great merit, as it appears to me, is, that he had no peculiar or prominent merit. His mind was so well constituted, so justly and admirably balanced, that it had nothing in excess. It was the harmonious combination, the