The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side, Band 2H. Colburn, 1835 - 352 Seiten |
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... respect , more frightened than any of them . His legs were more rooted to the spot . But the same force of imagination that helped to detain him , enabled him to muster up courage beyond those who found their will more powerful and in ...
... respect , more frightened than any of them . His legs were more rooted to the spot . But the same force of imagination that helped to detain him , enabled him to muster up courage beyond those who found their will more powerful and in ...
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... respecting the creature ; and corroborated as he now saw it , he ejaculated with good firmness , " In the name of God and his saints , what art thou ? " " Hast thou not heard of me ? " answered the ser- pent in a voice , whose singular ...
... respecting the creature ; and corroborated as he now saw it , he ejaculated with good firmness , " In the name of God and his saints , what art thou ? " " Hast thou not heard of me ? " answered the ser- pent in a voice , whose singular ...
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... respect and admiration . The dying girl ( for she evidently was dying , and happy at the thought of it ) was the niece of an humble tradesman in Florence , at whose house young Montague , who was a gentleman of small fortune , had ...
... respect and admiration . The dying girl ( for she evidently was dying , and happy at the thought of it ) was the niece of an humble tradesman in Florence , at whose house young Montague , who was a gentleman of small fortune , had ...
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... BOYLE . The celebrated Robert Boyle , the chemist , was ac- counted in his days , a sort of perfection of a man , especially in all respects intellectual , moral , and reli- 28 THE INDICATOR . XLV The Honourable Mr Robert Boyle.
... BOYLE . The celebrated Robert Boyle , the chemist , was ac- counted in his days , a sort of perfection of a man , especially in all respects intellectual , moral , and reli- 28 THE INDICATOR . XLV The Honourable Mr Robert Boyle.
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A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side Leigh Hunt. especially in all respects intellectual , moral , and reli- gious . This excellent person was in the habit of moralizing upon every thing that he did or suffered , such as " Upon his ...
A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side Leigh Hunt. especially in all respects intellectual , moral , and reli- gious . This excellent person was in the habit of moralizing upon every thing that he did or suffered , such as " Upon his ...
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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.