The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side, Band 2H. Colburn, 1835 - 352 Seiten |
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... become united with him - Mrs . Nott , fair , senti- mental , and Madonna - like - Anne Digby , Countess of Sutherland , beautiful and blameless , the friend of the angelic Lady Russell , and of the excellent Evelyn- The fair coquette ...
... become united with him - Mrs . Nott , fair , senti- mental , and Madonna - like - Anne Digby , Countess of Sutherland , beautiful and blameless , the friend of the angelic Lady Russell , and of the excellent Evelyn- The fair coquette ...
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... become , among us men of sticks , the description most approved . The present day , which is one of mimicry , boasts scarcely any protection except in the very stick I VOL . II . B 6 allude to ; and yet , because it is A word or two ...
... become , among us men of sticks , the description most approved . The present day , which is one of mimicry , boasts scarcely any protection except in the very stick I VOL . II . B 6 allude to ; and yet , because it is A word or two ...
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... become a religious pilgrim ; but he knew as little of the world as I , and I found that I could earn my way to England better , and quite as religi- ously , by playing my guitar , which was also more independent ; and I had often heard ...
... become a religious pilgrim ; but he knew as little of the world as I , and I found that I could earn my way to England better , and quite as religi- ously , by playing my guitar , which was also more independent ; and I had often heard ...
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... become intolerable ; and the apothecary's apprentice , with a bitterness beyond aloes , thinks of the pond he used to bathe in at school . Now men with powdered envy those that are un- heads ( especially if thick ) powdered , and stop ...
... become intolerable ; and the apothecary's apprentice , with a bitterness beyond aloes , thinks of the pond he used to bathe in at school . Now men with powdered envy those that are un- heads ( especially if thick ) powdered , and stop ...
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... become blind some years after- wards , the Romans attributed it to the vengeance of heaven ; an opinion which Livy repeats with great devotion , calling it a warning against innovations in religion . It had no effect , however , upon ...
... become blind some years after- wards , the Romans attributed it to the vengeance of heaven ; an opinion which Livy repeats with great devotion , calling it a warning against innovations in religion . It had no effect , however , upon ...
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Abbot admiration Andrew Marvell animal appearance Arabian Nights Ashted beauty Ben Jonson better called Ceres Chaucer church coach colour Cortana creatures daugh delight door dreams Epsom eyes face fancy father fear feel Formica rufa gentleman giant give goddess Gualtier hackney-coach hand happy hast head heart heaven honour horse human imagination instinct kiss lady Leatherhead live look Lord lover Mickleham mistress Morgante nature ness never night noble once Orlando ourselves Ovid pain panegyrics pepper-box perhaps person Petrarch pleasant pleasure poet Pomona pretty Proserpina reader reason Rhæcus river Mole Robert Boyle round seemed sense Shakspeare shew side sleep sort soul speak spirit suppose sweet talk tears tell thee thing thou thought tion trees Triptolemus turn Vaucluse verses village voice walk window wish Woodcote Green word young
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Seite 133 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice I And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry,
Seite 87 - Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.
Seite 59 - Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
Seite 191 - The ancients had little of what we call learning. They made it. They were also no very eminent buyers of books — they made books for posterity. It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much. The scholar, in Chaucer, who would rather have "At his beddes head A twenty bokes, clothed, in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy. Than robes rich, or fiddle, or psaltrie...
Seite 330 - To Hounslow Heath I point, and Banstead Down ; Thence comes your mutton, and these chicks my own.
Seite 199 - ... of fancy, and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of inchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens.
Seite 130 - ERE on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray With moving lips or bended knees But silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to Love compose, In humble trust mine eye-lids close, With reverential resignation, No wish conceived, no thought exprest, Only a sense of supplication ; A sense o'er all my soul imprest That I am weak, yet not unblest, Since in me, round me...
Seite 181 - ... among my books, and walled round with all the comfort and protection which they and my fireside could afford me ; to wit, a table of high-piled books at my back, my writing-desk on one side of me, some shelves on the other, and the feeling of the warm fire at my feet; I began to consider how I loved the authors of those books ; how I loved them, too, not only for the imaginative pleasures they afforded me, but for their making me love the very books themselves and delight to be in contact with...
Seite 45 - Cicely went off with a gentleman's purse ; And as to my sister, so mild and so dear, She has lain in the churchyard full many a year.
Seite 110 - Queen ; At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept, And from thenceforth those graces were not seen, For they this Queen attended ; in whose stead Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse. Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed, And groans of buried ghosts the heavens did pierce : Where Homer's spright did tremble all for grief, And cursed the access of that celestial thief.