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... thing on a larger scale than we have hearts for ) are as good as any thing from Herculaneum . The pounce- boxes of our days have gone retrograde . air The very clerks which I remember in the South- Sea House - I speak of forty years ...
... thing on a larger scale than we have hearts for ) are as good as any thing from Herculaneum . The pounce- boxes of our days have gone retrograde . air The very clerks which I remember in the South- Sea House - I speak of forty years ...
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... thing very substantial appended to them , were enough to enlarge a man's notions of himself that lived in them , ( I know not who is the occupier of them now , ) resounded fort- nightly to the notes of a concert of " sweet breasts ...
... thing very substantial appended to them , were enough to enlarge a man's notions of himself that lived in them , ( I know not who is the occupier of them now , ) resounded fort- nightly to the notes of a concert of " sweet breasts ...
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... thing ! the past is every thing , being nothing ! walking amid their foliage ; and the odour of their old moth - scented coverings , is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard . Still less ...
... thing ! the past is every thing , being nothing ! walking amid their foliage ; and the odour of their old moth - scented coverings , is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard . Still less ...
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... thing surprised at that moment , reader , he is on Mount Tabor , or Parnassus ; or co - shepherd with Plato : or , with Harrington , forming " immortal common- wealths ; " devising some plan of amelioration to thy country , or thy ...
... thing surprised at that moment , reader , he is on Mount Tabor , or Parnassus ; or co - shepherd with Plato : or , with Harrington , forming " immortal common- wealths ; " devising some plan of amelioration to thy country , or thy ...
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... thing . Conjecture next was at work to imagine how he could dispose of it . Some said he sold it to the beggars ... things in books , or seen them but in dreams . I was told he had run away . This was the punish- ment for the first ...
... thing . Conjecture next was at work to imagine how he could dispose of it . Some said he sold it to the beggars ... things in books , or seen them but in dreams . I was told he had run away . This was the punish- ment for the first ...
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Página 39 - Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness: The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas, Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
Página 49 - And immediately awaking, I found myself quietly seated in my bachelor armchair, where I had fallen asleep, with the faithful Bridget unchanged by my side — but John L. (or James Elia) was gone for ever.
Página 57 - The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting, or rather broiling (which I take to be the elder brother) was accidentally discovered in the manner following. The swine-herd, Ho-ti, having gone out into the woods one morning, as his manner was, to collect mast for...
Página 40 - twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new; Where from above the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run; And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers!
Página 11 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-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 his wit and invention.
Página 58 - See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth! - wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal - wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation - from these sins he is happily snatched away Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care...
Página 48 - L , because he was so handsome and spirited a youth, and a king to the rest of us ; and, instead of moping about in solitary corners, like some of us, he would mount the most mettlesome horse he could get, when but an imp no bigger than themselves, and make it carry him half over the county in a morning, and join the hunters when there were any out — and yet he loved the old great house and gardens too, but had too much spirit to be always pent up within their boundaries...
Página 106 - Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet ; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse ; his talk a trouble ; his stay pertinacious ; and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner, as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances. There is a worse evil under the sun, and that is— a female Poor Relation. You may do something with the other ; you may pass him...
Página 57 - While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odour assailed his nostrils, unlike any scent which he had before experienced.
Página 84 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.