Essays and TalesCassell, 1901 - 192 Seiten |
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... forming pieces upon Italian plans , which should give a more natural and reason- able entertainment than what can be met with in the elaborate trifles of that nation . This alarmed the poet- asters and fiddlers of the town , who were ...
... forming pieces upon Italian plans , which should give a more natural and reason- able entertainment than what can be met with in the elaborate trifles of that nation . This alarmed the poet- asters and fiddlers of the town , who were ...
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... ; for next to the forming a right notion of such strangers , I should be desirous of learning what ideas they have conceived of us . The upholsterer finding my friend very inquisitive about these his 46 ESSAYS AND TALES .
... ; for next to the forming a right notion of such strangers , I should be desirous of learning what ideas they have conceived of us . The upholsterer finding my friend very inquisitive about these his 46 ESSAYS AND TALES .
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... formed by others , who it seems were paid for it . " As for the women of the country , not being able to talk with them , we could only make our remarks upon them at a distance . They let the hair of their heads grow to a great length ...
... formed by others , who it seems were paid for it . " As for the women of the country , not being able to talk with them , we could only make our remarks upon them at a distance . They let the hair of their heads grow to a great length ...
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... formed a wilderness of sweets , and were a kind of lining to those ragged scenes which he had before passed through . As he was coming out of this delightful part of the wood , and entering upon the plains it enclosed , he saw several ...
... formed a wilderness of sweets , and were a kind of lining to those ragged scenes which he had before passed through . As he was coming out of this delightful part of the wood , and entering upon the plains it enclosed , he saw several ...
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... formed himself upon the ancient poets , has everywhere rejected it with scorn . If we look after mixed wit among the Greek writers , we shall find it nowhere but in the epigrammatists . There are indeed some strokes of it in the little ...
... formed himself upon the ancient poets , has everywhere rejected it with scorn . If we look after mixed wit among the Greek writers , we shall find it nowhere but in the epigrammatists . There are indeed some strokes of it in the little ...
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acrostics Addison admirers anagrams ancient appeared beautiful behaviour Bouts-Rimés burning-glasses Cæsar chronograms Cicero consider Constantia conversation death delight discourse dream DRYDEN Earl Douglas endeavour enemy English entertaining Epic Poetry Epidaurus epigram False Humour false wit fancy father fell figure filled friendship genius give grin hand happy heard heart HENRY MORLEY hero human ideas insomuch Italian Julius Cæsar kind of wit King lady language laugh letter likewise lion lives looked Malebranche manner Marraton midst mind mixed wit nature never observed occasion opera OVID paper passage passed passion person pieces Pindar poem poet puns reader reason Religio Medici resemblance rhymes ridicule says sense side Sir Roger L'Estrange soul stood taste thee Theodosius thou thought tion told tongue translated Tryphiodorus turned verses VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole women words writing
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Seite 155 - ... insomuch that I could discover nothing in it ; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and...
Seite 152 - But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Seite 154 - I here fetched a deep sigh; Alas, said I, man was made in vain! How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect; Look no more...
Seite 155 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Seite 152 - ... is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now, said he, this sea that is thus bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me...
Seite 181 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Seite 191 - Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Seite 153 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. " The genius, seeing me indulge myself on this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. 'Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, 'and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up, 'What...
Seite 112 - With that, there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; Who never spake more words than these, " Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall.
Seite 154 - Look no more, said he, on Man in the first Stage of his Existence, in his setting out for Eternity; but cast thine Eye on that thick Mist into which the Tide bears the several Generations of Mortals that fall into it.