The Indicator: a Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside. In Two Parts, Bände 1-2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 |
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... reason we make as much of our winter , as the anti - social habits that have grown upon us from other causes will allow . And for a similar reason , the southern European is unprepared for a cold day . The houses in many parts of Italy ...
... reason we make as much of our winter , as the anti - social habits that have grown upon us from other causes will allow . And for a similar reason , the southern European is unprepared for a cold day . The houses in many parts of Italy ...
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... reason we like a small study , where we are almost in contact with our books . We like to feel them about us ; -to be in the arms of our mistress Philo- sophy , rather than see her at a distance . To have a huge apartment for a study is ...
... reason we like a small study , where we are almost in contact with our books . We like to feel them about us ; -to be in the arms of our mistress Philo- sophy , rather than see her at a distance . To have a huge apartment for a study is ...
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... reason through the medium of feeling , were then occupied to the full in their warlike habits . It was reserved for a woman to anticipate ages of liberal opinion , and to surpass them in the daring virtue of setting a principle above a ...
... reason through the medium of feeling , were then occupied to the full in their warlike habits . It was reserved for a woman to anticipate ages of liberal opinion , and to surpass them in the daring virtue of setting a principle above a ...
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... reason to regard us as a kind of pedestrian carp . Now fancy a Genius fishing for us . Fancy him baiting a great hook with pickled salmon , and twitching up old Isaac Walton from the banks of the river Lee , with the hook through his ...
... reason to regard us as a kind of pedestrian carp . Now fancy a Genius fishing for us . Fancy him baiting a great hook with pickled salmon , and twitching up old Isaac Walton from the banks of the river Lee , with the hook through his ...
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... reason that jests in company are sometimes built up by one hand after another , " threepiled hyperboles , ❞— till the over - done Babel topples and tumbles down amidst a merry confusion of tongues . Falstaff was a great master of this ...
... reason that jests in company are sometimes built up by one hand after another , " threepiled hyperboles , ❞— till the over - done Babel topples and tumbles down amidst a merry confusion of tongues . Falstaff was a great master of this ...
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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...