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... truth , all the truth , and nothing but the truth , operates as a terrible cramper of genius . My friend , Quinze Jours , in fifteen days , -besides all that is usually to be met with during such a period in London , -witnessed a boxing ...
... truth , all the truth , and nothing but the truth , operates as a terrible cramper of genius . My friend , Quinze Jours , in fifteen days , -besides all that is usually to be met with during such a period in London , -witnessed a boxing ...
Página 45
... truth , such a person as he is , were he only to cultivate his talents for self - decep- tion , might easily attain to as great a pitch of excellence in that department as either Abon Hassan or Don Quixote could ever boast of . By a ...
... truth , such a person as he is , were he only to cultivate his talents for self - decep- tion , might easily attain to as great a pitch of excellence in that department as either Abon Hassan or Don Quixote could ever boast of . By a ...
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... truth , it is one which Pope himself did not presume to enter upon , without calling into counsel no fewer than fifty of those airy guardians of female decencies , whose high province it is , amongst minor duties , — " To watch the ...
... truth , it is one which Pope himself did not presume to enter upon , without calling into counsel no fewer than fifty of those airy guardians of female decencies , whose high province it is , amongst minor duties , — " To watch the ...
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... truth of the facts which it asserts : that is to say , until we had ascertained that the respecta- ble individual , who is the ghost seer of the narrative , had ( and perhaps has ) actual ex- istence , and firmly believed himself to ...
... truth of the facts which it asserts : that is to say , until we had ascertained that the respecta- ble individual , who is the ghost seer of the narrative , had ( and perhaps has ) actual ex- istence , and firmly believed himself to ...
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... truth and sim- plicity , " No , madam ; I have seen far too many myself . I have indeed a whole me- morandum - book filled with records of these phenomena , many of them interesting as facts and data for psychology , and affording some ...
... truth and sim- plicity , " No , madam ; I have seen far too many myself . I have indeed a whole me- morandum - book filled with records of these phenomena , many of them interesting as facts and data for psychology , and affording some ...
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Página 213 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Página 46 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 30 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 32 - And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol, or a harp ; Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up, Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
Página 174 - There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Página 175 - Fly to the desert, fly with me, Our Arab tents are rude for thee ; But oh ! the choice what heart can doubt Of tents with love, or thrones without ? Our rocks are rough, but smiling there Th' acacia waves her yellow hair, Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less For flowering in a wilderness.
Página 33 - In chimney corner seek domestic joys — I love a prince will bid the bottle pass, Exchanging with his subjects glance and glass ; In fitting time, can, gayest of the gay, Keep up the jest, and mingle in the lay — Such Monarchs best our free-born humours suit, But Despots must be stately, stern, and mute.
Página 213 - He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him...
Página 175 - Oh ! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...