The Essays of Elia: 1st [and 2d] seriesE. Moxon, 1841 |
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... Dear Grandam , Pray to God to bless Your grandson dear , with happiness ; That , as I do advance each year , I may be taught my God to fear ; My little frame from passion free , To man's estate from infancy ; From vice , that turns a ...
... Dear Grandam , Pray to God to bless Your grandson dear , with happiness ; That , as I do advance each year , I may be taught my God to fear ; My little frame from passion free , To man's estate from infancy ; From vice , that turns a ...
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... dear to him in his serious and affectionate childhood . But , per- haps , more even than those external associa- tions , the situation of his parents , as it was elevated and graced by their character , moulded his young thoughts to the ...
... dear to him in his serious and affectionate childhood . But , per- haps , more even than those external associa- tions , the situation of his parents , as it was elevated and graced by their character , moulded his young thoughts to the ...
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... dear children , ' ' brethren , ' and co - heirs with Christ of the promises , ' seeking to know no further . tended to convey . With that other part of your apology I am not quite so well satisfied . You seem to me to have been ...
... dear children , ' ' brethren , ' and co - heirs with Christ of the promises , ' seeking to know no further . tended to convey . With that other part of your apology I am not quite so well satisfied . You seem to me to have been ...
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... dear , and dearer was the mother for the child . ' Cultivate sim- plicity , Coleridge ; or rather , I should say , banish elaborateness ; for simplicity springs sponta- neous from the heart , and carries into day - light with it its own ...
... dear , and dearer was the mother for the child . ' Cultivate sim- plicity , Coleridge ; or rather , I should say , banish elaborateness ; for simplicity springs sponta- neous from the heart , and carries into day - light with it its own ...
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... dear ; and we alike have fared , Poor pilgrims we , through life's unequal ways . It were unwisely done , should we refuse To cheer our path , as featly as we may , - Our lonely path to cheer , as travellers use , With merry song ...
... dear ; and we alike have fared , Poor pilgrims we , through life's unequal ways . It were unwisely done , should we refuse To cheer our path , as featly as we may , - Our lonely path to cheer , as travellers use , With merry song ...
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Էջ 12 - reckoned, in particular, on my aunt's living many years ; she was a very hearty old woman. But she was a mere skeleton before she died, looked more like a corpse that had lain weeks in the grave, than one fresh dead. ' Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes tobehold the sun; but
Էջ 5 - witcombats," (to dally awhile with the words of old Fuller), between him and CV Le G , " which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man of war ; Master C'oleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances.
Էջ 32 - love, thou feel'st a lover's case ; I read it in thy looks; thy languish! grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries. Then, even of fellowship, О Moon, tell me, Is constant love deem'd there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they
Էջ 32 - sweet 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 shall in me, Livelier than elsewhere, STELLA'S image see.
Էջ 5 - PASS their annals by. Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the day-spring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee—the dark pillar not yet turned—Samuel Taylor Coleridge—Logician, Metaphysician, Bard !—How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still, intranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the
Էջ 68 - who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision : and when the court was dismissed, went privily, and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town-house was observed to
Էջ 54 - and think what we might spare it out of, and what saving we could hit upon, that should be an equivalent. A thing was worth buying then, when we felt the money that we paid for it. " Do you remember the brown suit, which you made to hang upon
Էջ 69 - impart a share of the good things of this life which fall to their lot (few as mine are in this kind) to a friend. I protest I take as great an interest in my friend's pleasures, his relishes, and proper satisfactions, as in mine own. "Presents," I often say, " endear Absents.
Էջ 56 - crying, and asked if their little mourning which they had on was not for uncle John, and they looked up, and prayed me not to go on about their uncle, but to tell them some stories about their pretty dead mother. Then I told how for seven long years, in