The Indicator: a Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside. In Two Parts, Bände 1-2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 |
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... reader a more brief , yet complete specimen of the way in which bad translations are made , than by selecting a well - known passage from Shakspeare , and turn- ing it into the common - place kind of poetry that flourished so widely ...
... reader a more brief , yet complete specimen of the way in which bad translations are made , than by selecting a well - known passage from Shakspeare , and turn- ing it into the common - place kind of poetry that flourished so widely ...
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... Knowing they have more wit In demanding , than we have in giving . The reader may see both the portraits in the late editions of Walton . Whilst quiet we sit We conclude all things fit , 40 [ CHAP . XI THE INDICATOR .
... Knowing they have more wit In demanding , than we have in giving . The reader may see both the portraits in the late editions of Walton . Whilst quiet we sit We conclude all things fit , 40 [ CHAP . XI THE INDICATOR .
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... reader knows the ld blunder attributed to Goldsmith about a dish of green peas . Somebody had been applauded in company for advising his cook to take some ill - dressed peas to Hammersmith , " because that was the way to Turn'em Green ...
... reader knows the ld blunder attributed to Goldsmith about a dish of green peas . Somebody had been applauded in company for advising his cook to take some ill - dressed peas to Hammersmith , " because that was the way to Turn'em Green ...
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... reader . Butler is defrauded of his fame with readers of taste who happen to be no politicians , when Hudibras is printed without this appendage . The piece we allude to is a short description of Holland : A country that draws fifty ...
... reader . Butler is defrauded of his fame with readers of taste who happen to be no politicians , when Hudibras is printed without this appendage . The piece we allude to is a short description of Holland : A country that draws fifty ...
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... reader is to sup- pose that the mist , after ascending , comes gliding over the water , and condensing itself into a human shape , lands the white - footed goddess on the shore . When Achilles , after his long and vindictive absence ...
... reader is to sup- pose that the mist , after ascending , comes gliding over the water , and condensing itself into a human shape , lands the white - footed goddess on the shore . When Achilles , after his long and vindictive absence ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration agreeable ancient Andrew Marvell animal appears Arabian Nights Ariosto beauty Ben Jonson better called CHAPTER Chaucer coach Dæmon death delight door doth dreams earth Epsom eyes face Falstaff fancy father fear feel flowers Formica rufa genius gentle gentleman give graceful green hand happy head heart heaven horse human imagination kind king knew lady Lazarillo Leatherhead lived look Lord lover master doctor melancholy mind mistress Morgante nature never night noble Orlando ourselves Ovid pain perhaps person Petrarch Phorbas pleasant pleasure poet reader reason river Mole round seems sense Shakspeare side sight Sir Philip Sydney sleep sort speak Spenser spirit stick story sweet taste tears tell thee thing thou thought tion trees Triptolemus turned Vertumnus voice walk window wish word writing young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 189 - Saturn laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell...
Seite 4 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Seite 78 - Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won! I've won!
Seite 37 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Seite 7 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Seite 43 - Round-hoofd, 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 73 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Seite 195 - Now the bright morning star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
Seite 210 - I see a lily on thy brow With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too." "I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful — a faery's child, Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild. "I...
Seite 37 - Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare...