The Essays of Elia: 1st [and 2d] seriesE. Moxon, 1841 |
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... leave to add the following from Beaumont and Fletcher's Wife for a Month ; ' ' tis the conclusion of a description of a sea - fight : - " The game of death was never play'd so nobly ; the meagre thief grew wanton in his mischiefs , and ...
... leave to add the following from Beaumont and Fletcher's Wife for a Month ; ' ' tis the conclusion of a description of a sea - fight : - " The game of death was never play'd so nobly ; the meagre thief grew wanton in his mischiefs , and ...
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... leave off , for it is unprofitable to my soul ; I feel it is ; and these questions about words , and debates about alterations , take me off , I am conscious , from the properer business of my life . Take my sonnets , once for all , and ...
... leave off , for it is unprofitable to my soul ; I feel it is ; and these questions about words , and debates about alterations , take me off , I am conscious , from the properer business of my life . Take my sonnets , once for all , and ...
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... leave , without consulting his republican friend , who might advise none ? May not a publican put up the sign of the Saracen's Head , even though his undiscerning neighbour should prefer , as more genteel , the Cat and Gridiron ...
... leave , without consulting his republican friend , who might advise none ? May not a publican put up the sign of the Saracen's Head , even though his undiscerning neighbour should prefer , as more genteel , the Cat and Gridiron ...
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... leaving off versifying you have said so many pretty things , so many fine com- pliments , ingeniously decked out in the garb of sincerity , and undoubtedly springing from a present feeling somewhat like sincerity , that you might melt ...
... leaving off versifying you have said so many pretty things , so many fine com- pliments , ingeniously decked out in the garb of sincerity , and undoubtedly springing from a present feeling somewhat like sincerity , that you might melt ...
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... leave such as I to lag far , far behind in all intellectual , and , far more grievous to say , in all moral accomplishments . Coleridge , I have not one truly elevated character among my acquaintance : not one Christian : not one , but ...
... leave such as I to lag far , far behind in all intellectual , and , far more grievous to say , in all moral accomplishments . Coleridge , I have not one truly elevated character among my acquaintance : not one Christian : not one , but ...
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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