Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Հատոր 21856 |
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... person descending should be suspended in the air without being able to get down lower . Besides these we made several other ropes of shorter lengths , to fasten our ladder to a cannon , and for other un- foreseen occasions . When all ...
... person descending should be suspended in the air without being able to get down lower . Besides these we made several other ropes of shorter lengths , to fasten our ladder to a cannon , and for other un- foreseen occasions . When all ...
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... person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge , of that inimitable sweet- ness and delight in conversation , of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind , and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of ...
... person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge , of that inimitable sweet- ness and delight in conversation , of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind , and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of ...
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... person in those troops which he thought , by the forwardness of the commanders , to be most like to be farthest engaged ; and in all such encounters , he had about him an extraordinary cheerfulness , without at all affecting the ...
... person in those troops which he thought , by the forwardness of the commanders , to be most like to be farthest engaged ; and in all such encounters , he had about him an extraordinary cheerfulness , without at all affecting the ...
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... person . ' In the morning before the battle , as always upon action , he was very cheerful , and put himself in the first rank of the Lord Byron's regiment , then advancing upon the enemy , who had lined the hedges on both sides with ...
... person . ' In the morning before the battle , as always upon action , he was very cheerful , and put himself in the first rank of the Lord Byron's regiment , then advancing upon the enemy , who had lined the hedges on both sides with ...
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... person . Though , quoth I , it was his good fortune to send from his school unto the University one of the best scholars indeed of all our time , yet wise men do think that that came so to pass rather by the great towardness of the ...
... person . Though , quoth I , it was his good fortune to send from his school unto the University one of the best scholars indeed of all our time , yet wise men do think that that came so to pass rather by the great towardness of the ...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Հատոր 2 Half hours Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1847 |
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Էջ 276 - ... pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.
Էջ 44 - And ye five other wand'ring fires that move In mystic dance, not without song, resound His praise, who out of darkness call'd up light. Air, and ye elements L the eldest birth Of nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix, And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our Great Maker still new praise.
Էջ 178 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He who made him such, Who centred in our make such strange extremes!
Էջ 98 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Էջ 240 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's...
Էջ 44 - Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling, tune his praise. Join voices, all ye living souls : ye birds, That singing up to heaven's gate ascend, Bear on your wings, and in your notes his praise...
Էջ 185 - A soldier, an' please your Reverence, said I, prays as often, of his own accord, as a parson ; and when he is fighting for his king, and for his own life, and for his honour too, he has the most reason to pray to God of any one in the whole world. 'Twas well said of thee, Trim, said my uncle Toby. But when a soldier, said I, an...
Էջ 251 - All this, and much more than I can say, or have time to say, the reader must enter into, before he can comprehend the unimaginable horror which these dreams of Oriental imagery and mythological tortures impressed upon me. Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and vertical sunlights, I brought together all creatures, birds, beasts, reptiles, all trees and plants, usages and appearances, that are found in all tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Indostan.
Էջ 251 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas, and was fixed for centuries at the summit, or in secret rooms. I was the idol ; I was the priest ; I was worshipped ; I was sacrificed.
Էջ 239 - In lowly dale, fast by a river's side, With woody hill o'er hill cncompass'd round, A most enchanting wizard did abide, Than whom a fiend more fell is nowhere found. It was, I ween, a lovely spot of ground ; And there a season atween June and May, Half prankt with spring, with summer half imbrown'd, A listless climate made, where sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared even for play.