Elia, Band 1Edward Moxon, 1836 |
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... lady if it is not so . Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet ; and did not know , till lately , that such - and - such had been the crest of the family . His memory is unseasonable ; his compliments perverse ; his talk ...
... lady if it is not so . Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet ; and did not know , till lately , that such - and - such had been the crest of the family . His memory is unseasonable ; his compliments perverse ; his talk ...
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... lady with a great estate . His stars are perpetually crossed by the malignant maternity of an old woman , who persists in calling him " her son Dick . " But she has wherewithal in the end to recompense his indignities , and float him ...
... lady with a great estate . His stars are perpetually crossed by the malignant maternity of an old woman , who persists in calling him " her son Dick . " But she has wherewithal in the end to recompense his indignities , and float him ...
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... Lady G— ; ” " The Melting Platonic and the old Beau , ” — and such like antiquated scandal ? Would you ex- change it at that time , and in that place - for a better book ? Poor Tobin , who latterly fell blind , did not regret it so much ...
... Lady G— ; ” " The Melting Platonic and the old Beau , ” — and such like antiquated scandal ? Would you ex- change it at that time , and in that place - for a better book ? Poor Tobin , who latterly fell blind , did not regret it so much ...
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... Lady Randolph ) even to Mrs. Siddons . * The maiden name of this lady was Street , which she changed by successive marriages , for those of Dancer , Barry , and Crawford . She was Mrs. Crawford , a third time a widow , when I knew her ...
... Lady Randolph ) even to Mrs. Siddons . * The maiden name of this lady was Street , which she changed by successive marriages , for those of Dancer , Barry , and Crawford . She was Mrs. Crawford , a third time a widow , when I knew her ...
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... lady that has her sitting upon 66 many waters . " Then there was the collateral topic of ankles . What an occasion to a truly chaste writer , like ourself , of touching that nice brink , and yet never tumbling over it , of a seemingly ...
... lady that has her sitting upon 66 many waters . " Then there was the collateral topic of ankles . What an occasion to a truly chaste writer , like ourself , of touching that nice brink , and yet never tumbling over it , of a seemingly ...
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admirable Æneid appeared April Fool artist Ash Wednesday Barbara beautiful Belshazzar better cheerful child conceit confess countenance DAN STUART day's pleasuring doth dreams face faculty fancy feel fête champêtre genius gentleman give gone grace guests half hand head heard heart honour hour humour imagination infirmities lady late less look Lord Lord Mayor's Day Margate mighty mind morning mortal nature ness never night notion occasion once pain passion perhaps person picture play pleasant pleasure poor present pretty reader reason remember right hand path ROBERT WILLIAM ELLISTON scarce seemed seen sense Shrove Tuesday sick sight Sir Philip Sydney sitting sleep Somerset House sort speak spirit sure sweet taste thee thing thou thought tion Titian told true truth walk week whole wish wonder young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 47 - But where a book is at once both good and rare — where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine...
Seite 174 - 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.
Seite 141 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries...
Seite 223 - ... pushed about and squeezed, and elbowed by the poorest rabble of poor gallery scramblers — could I once more hear those anxious shrieks of yours — and the delicious Thank God, we are safe, which always followed when the topmost stair, conquered, let in the first light of the whole cheerful theatre down beneath us — I know not the fathom line that ever touched a descent so deep as I would be willing to bury more wealth in than Croesus had, or the great Jew R is supposed to have, to purchase...
Seite 142 - Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low!
Seite 142 - Despair at me doth throw. 0 make in me those civil wars to cease: 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
Seite 149 - Despair at me doth throw; 0 make in me those civil wars to cease : 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed ; A chamber, deaf to noise, and blind to light; A rosy garland, and a weary head.
Seite vi - I grant you — a sort of unlicked, incondite things — villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than to affect a naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him.
Seite 11 - He remembereth birth-days, and professeth he is fortunate to have stumbled upon one. He declareth against fish, the turbot being small, yet suffereth himself to be importuned into a slice against his first resolution. He sticketh by the port, yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are fearful of being too obsequious, or not civil enough to him. The guests think
Seite 177 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.