Essays of EliaBaudry's European Library, 1835 - 412 Seiten |
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... spirits in society to what was no more than the ordinary pitch of all around him without it . Never should the natural temperament against which Mr. Lamb had to struggle be forgotten by those who are left to speak of his habits and ...
... spirits in society to what was no more than the ordinary pitch of all around him without it . Never should the natural temperament against which Mr. Lamb had to struggle be forgotten by those who are left to speak of his habits and ...
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... spirit as this . No one in a conversation said such startling things as Lamb . No one was so witty or so sensible . No man ever had him at a disadvantage , except the man who did not understand him . He had a severe impediment in his ...
... spirit as this . No one in a conversation said such startling things as Lamb . No one was so witty or so sensible . No man ever had him at a disadvantage , except the man who did not understand him . He had a severe impediment in his ...
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... spirit of deep philosophy , " more particularly incident to persons of the correctest principles and habits , to seclude themselves from the rest of mankind , as from another species , and form into knots and clubs . The best people ...
... spirit of deep philosophy , " more particularly incident to persons of the correctest principles and habits , to seclude themselves from the rest of mankind , as from another species , and form into knots and clubs . The best people ...
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... spirit joined his friend . He had a habit of venting his melancholy in a sort of mirth . He would , with nothing graver than a pun , " cleanse his bosom of the perilous stuff that weighed " upon it . In a jest , or a few light phrases ...
... spirit joined his friend . He had a habit of venting his melancholy in a sort of mirth . He would , with nothing graver than a pun , " cleanse his bosom of the perilous stuff that weighed " upon it . In a jest , or a few light phrases ...
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... spirit haunts me . I cannot think a thought , I cannot make a criticism on men or books , without an ineffectual turning and reference to him . He was the proof and touchstone of all my cogitations . He was a Gre- cian ( or in the first ...
... spirit haunts me . I cannot think a thought , I cannot make a criticism on men or books , without an ineffectual turning and reference to him . He was the proof and touchstone of all my cogitations . He was a Gre- cian ( or in the first ...
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Seite 252 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace ; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Seite 92 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Seite 92 - s made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside My soul into the boughs does glide ; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Seite 75 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Seite 284 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Seite 314 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Seite 236 - Moon, thou climb'st the skies; How silently, and with how wan a face; What, may it be that even in...
Seite 74 - Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire — stories of Celaeno and the Harpies — may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition ; but they were there before. They are transcripts, types, — the archetypes are in us, and eternal.
Seite 211 - Tis not sic cauld that makes me cry, But my Love's heart grown cauld to me. When we came in by Glasgow town We were a comely sight to see : My Love was clad in the black velvet, And I myself in cramasie.
Seite 134 - As often as the sow farrowed, so sure was the house of Ho-ti to be in a blaze; and Ho-ti himself, which was the more remarkable, instead of chastising his son, seemed to grow more indulgent to him than ever.