Cloudesley: A Tale, Band 2H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 - 345 Seiten |
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Seite 62 - And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake; She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.
Seite 57 - To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying round and small birds how they fare...
Seite 185 - ... in its stead the slightest tincture of pedantry. The frankness and nobility of his spirit defended him from all danger on that side. The constitution of his nature was incapable of combining itself with any alloy of the fop or the coxcomb! All \ / his motions were free, animated and elastic. They sprung into being instant and as by inspiration, without waiting to demand the sanction of the deliberative faculty. They were born perfect, as Minerva is feigned to have sprung in complete panoply from...
Seite 223 - And that man is substantially alone, though living in the midst of crowds and tumults, who has not a companion circumstanced in various particulars like himself. These are the points in which human creatures touch one another, at which the virtues and the sympathies of mortals become inter-infused. The existence of a man may be continued for seventy years; and he may pass through an incalculable variety of fortunes, while yet there may be many a nerve and vein of character that shall have lain dormant...
Seite 57 - Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn ; And how the woods berries and worms provide Without their pains, when earth has nought beside To answer their small wants. To view the graceful deer come tripping by, Then stop, and gaze, then turn, they know not why, Like bashful younkers in society. To mark the structure of a plant or tree, And all fair things of earth, how fair they be.
Seite 21 - Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should lay my countenance to pawn : I have grated upon my good friends for three reprieves for you and your coach-fellow, Nym ; or else you had looked through the grate, like a geminy of baboons.
Seite 92 - He imitates every thing he sees; and plays visits and entertainments with a seriousness of face, and an earnestness of attention, which is irresistibly comic. He gives his whole soul to it, and performs his part with a mixture of affected demureness and simplicity, which might put professional practitioners to the blush. The ingenuity of Julian was truly extraordinary. He made houses, and collected the little implements of furniture about him, which are usually supplied to children; and, when all...
Seite 46 - In this situation, particularly when the shades of evening began to prevail, and in the twilight, my senses were bewildered, and I seemed to see a multitude of half-formed visions. Once especially, as I passed through a wood by moonlight, I suddenly saw my brother's face, looking out from among the trees as I passed. I saw the features as distinctly as if the meridian sun had beamed upon them. The countenance was as white as death ; and the expression was past speaking pitiful. It was by degrees...
Seite 226 - ... without opening the pores," I confess that I have little sympathy, still less with the habitual loafer, whose ulterior motives it Is my nature to suspect. Athleticism— in moderation always— is part and parcel of University life, and he will be best following the Preacher's advice to "rejoice in his youth, and let his heart cheer him in the days of his youth...