The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side, Band 2H. Colburn, 1835 - 352 Seiten |
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... thing , as economy is the order of the day ( at least in minor concerns ) ; its being the best substitute for the old - fashioned horse - whip in a moru- ing - ride , and now so generally used in lieu of the long hunting - whip in the ...
... thing , as economy is the order of the day ( at least in minor concerns ) ; its being the best substitute for the old - fashioned horse - whip in a moru- ing - ride , and now so generally used in lieu of the long hunting - whip in the ...
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... thing ill . " The ground - ash flourishes the better , the more it is cut and slashed ; - ; —a sort of improvement , which it sometimes bestows in return upon human kind . XLII . THE DAUGHTER OF HIPPOCRATES . In the time B 2 ON STICKS . 3.
... thing ill . " The ground - ash flourishes the better , the more it is cut and slashed ; - ; —a sort of improvement , which it sometimes bestows in return upon human kind . XLII . THE DAUGHTER OF HIPPOCRATES . In the time B 2 ON STICKS . 3.
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... thing else . There was an intense noon - day silence . Only the hares made a rustling noise as they ran about the long hiding grass . The house looked like the tomb of human nature , amidst the vitality of earth . " Did you see ? " said ...
... thing else . There was an intense noon - day silence . Only the hares made a rustling noise as they ran about the long hiding grass . The house looked like the tomb of human nature , amidst the vitality of earth . " Did you see ? " said ...
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... thing , " said the Captain : " but we will wait for you in the vessel , if you stay , We will , by St. Ermo . " The Captain had not supposed that Gualtier would stay an instant ; but seeing him linger more than the rest , he added the ...
... thing , " said the Captain : " but we will wait for you in the vessel , if you stay , We will , by St. Ermo . " The Captain had not supposed that Gualtier would stay an instant ; but seeing him linger more than the rest , he added the ...
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... thing in the island of Cos . " " I am that loathly thing , " replied the serpent ; " once not so . " And Gualtier , thought that its voice trembled sorrowfully . The monster told Gualtier that what was said of her was true that she had ...
... thing in the island of Cos . " " I am that loathly thing , " replied the serpent ; " once not so . " And Gualtier , thought that its voice trembled sorrowfully . The monster told Gualtier that what was said of her was true that she had ...
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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.