Eliana: Being the Hitherto Uncollected Writings of Charles LambEdward Moxon and Company, 1864 - 437 Seiten |
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... suitors to her for her love . So Alcinous readily gave consent that she should go , ordering mules and a coach to be prepared . And Nausicaa brought from her cham- ber all her vestments , and laid them up in the coach ; and her mother ...
... suitors to her for her love . So Alcinous readily gave consent that she should go , ordering mules and a coach to be prepared . And Nausicaa brought from her cham- ber all her vestments , and laid them up in the coach ; and her mother ...
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... suitors to Penelope . The queen ( it was true ) continued single , but was little better than a state - prisoner in the power of these men , who , under a pretence of waiting her de- cision , occupied the king's house , rather as owners ...
... suitors to Penelope . The queen ( it was true ) continued single , but was little better than a state - prisoner in the power of these men , who , under a pretence of waiting her de- cision , occupied the king's house , rather as owners ...
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... suitors . This the goddess told him ; but of the particulars of his son's adventures , of his having been detained in the Delightful Island , which his father had so lately left , of Calypso and her nymphs , and the many strange ...
... suitors . This the goddess told him ; but of the particulars of his son's adventures , of his having been detained in the Delightful Island , which his father had so lately left , of Calypso and her nymphs , and the many strange ...
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... suitors at once , and strew the pavements of his beautiful palace with their bloods and brains . And Minerva knew his thoughts ; and she said , “ I will be strongly with thee , if thou fail not to do thy part . And for a sign between us ...
... suitors at once , and strew the pavements of his beautiful palace with their bloods and brains . And Minerva knew his thoughts ; and she said , “ I will be strongly with thee , if thou fail not to do thy part . And for a sign between us ...
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... suitors . Shame on their unworthiness ! There is no day in which two or three of the noblest of the herd are not slain to support their feasts and their sur- feits . " Ulysses gave good ear to his words ; and , as he ate his meat , he ...
... suitors . Shame on their unworthiness ! There is no day in which two or three of the noblest of the herd are not slain to support their feasts and their sur- feits . " Ulysses gave good ear to his words ; and , as he ate his meat , he ...
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admired Alcinous Antinous Bacha beauty beggar behold better Betty called Calypso Charles Lamb church Circe CUPID'S REVENGE Cutlet Cyclop daughter Davenport dead dear death delight Demodocus dream Echetus EDITOR Elia Essays Essays of Elia Eumæus Eurylochus Eurymachus eyes fancy father fear fell Flint gave gentleman give gods guest hand hath head hear heard heart heaven honor Jove king knew lady Lamb's land Leucippus living London Magazine look Lord Lucy Lycia Marian marriage mind Minerva Miss F mother Nausicaa never night Ogygia palace passion Pendulous person Phæacian pleasure poor pretty prince remember Scylla seemed ship sight Sittingbourn sort speak stood story suitors tears Telemachus tell thee thing thou thought tion Tiresias told took Troy Ulysses wife wine woman words write young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 195 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Seite 24 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Seite 139 - Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candlelight, and fireside conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itself — do these things go out with life...
Seite 98 - My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies. The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels...
Seite 43 - ... by an exposure to the influence of heaven in a long flow of generations, from the hard, acidulous, metallic tincture of the spring.
Seite 158 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Seite 185 - He was too much of the boyman. The toga virilis never sate gracefully on his shoulders. The impressions of infancy had burnt into him, and he resented the impertinence of manhood.
Seite 18 - The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Seite 140 - When I heard of the death of Coleridge, it was without grief. It seemed to me that he long had been on the confines of the next world, - that he. had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve. But since, I feel how great a part he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men and books, without an ineffectual turning and reference to him.
Seite 174 - How it staggered me to see the fine things in their ore ! interlined, corrected ! as if their words were mortal...