A Book for a Corner: Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best Suited to that Mode of EnjoymentGeorge P. Putnam & Company, 1852 - 227 Seiten |
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... feels astonished to think how so many could have stood in need of it , ourselves perhaps among the number . But so it is . We feel it to have been necessary , while we are surprised at its having been so ; and we become anxious that all ...
... feels astonished to think how so many could have stood in need of it , ourselves perhaps among the number . But so it is . We feel it to have been necessary , while we are surprised at its having been so ; and we become anxious that all ...
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... feel a spirit above it . " " Tis well be above it then ; only do not repine that you are not rich . Is knowledge the pearl of price ? That , too , may be pur- chased by steady application and long solitary hours of study and reflection ...
... feel a spirit above it . " " Tis well be above it then ; only do not repine that you are not rich . Is knowledge the pearl of price ? That , too , may be pur- chased by steady application and long solitary hours of study and reflection ...
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... feel as he and his fellow - idlers did , when Sir In- dustry first interrupted them . We resent the termination of our pleas- ures , and look upon the reforming knight as a dull and meddling fellow . Why should he wake us from such a ...
... feel as he and his fellow - idlers did , when Sir In- dustry first interrupted them . We resent the termination of our pleas- ures , and look upon the reforming knight as a dull and meddling fellow . Why should he wake us from such a ...
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... feel a thankless indiffer- ence ; neither do we entertain such affection for it , as converts interest into anxiety . But we do it injustice in writing sentences about it . There is nothing sententious at an inn ( except on the window ...
... feel a thankless indiffer- ence ; neither do we entertain such affection for it , as converts interest into anxiety . But we do it injustice in writing sentences about it . There is nothing sententious at an inn ( except on the window ...
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... feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow , As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe , And , redolent of joy and youth , To breathe a second spring . Say , father Thames , for thou hast seen ...
... feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow , As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe , And , redolent of joy and youth , To breathe a second spring . Say , father Thames , for thou hast seen ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adams admiration agreeable Anne's Hill bard beauty better called CHARLES DICKENS charming Chiswick House clouds club delight Duke of Monmouth entertainment Epicurus excellent eyes fancy father feel garden genius gentleman ghost give Gray hand happy heard heart heaven hermit hill Hood Household Words Hudibras humor Indolence kind knew ladies LEIGH HUNT live look luxury Mademoiselle Sillery manner master melancholy mind Moor Park nature never night noble o'er observed Oudon parterre person pleased pleasure poem poet reader rich Roger de Coverley Semi-Monthly Library servants shade side Sir Richard Baker Sir Roger Sir William Temple sleep sort soul spirit Steele story sweet talk taste Tatler tell tender things THOMAS HOOD thought tion told town Travellers trees village virtue volume walk wind wood young youth
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Seite 138 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness...
Seite 226 - THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth, A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send; He gave to Misery all he had, a tear — He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd), a friend.
Seite 29 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
Seite 138 - The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast: Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born, The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light That fly th
Seite 225 - For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, " Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the Sun upon...
Seite 177 - Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep...
Seite 136 - Ye distant spires ! ye antique towers ! That crown the watery glade -Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade...
Seite 68 - A person of indefatigable industry, strong reason, and great experience. His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting, which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common.
Seite 151 - ... he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or other of my tenants his parishioners. There has not been a law-suit in the parish since he has lived among them ; if any dispute arises they apply themselves to him for the decision ; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me. At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of...
Seite 153 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and, if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servant to them.