Essays of Elia. First SeriesGinn, 1905 - 302 páginas |
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... walk for exercise . Lamb was essentially a town man , and was never quite at home off the streets of London . His essays picture the delights of city life much as Wordsworth's poems reveal the charms of country life . He confessed that ...
... walk for exercise . Lamb was essentially a town man , and was never quite at home off the streets of London . His essays picture the delights of city life much as Wordsworth's poems reveal the charms of country life . He confessed that ...
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... walks about her crowded streets , and I often shed tears in the motley Strand from fullness of joy at so much life . All these emotions must be strange to you ; so are your rural emotions to me . " 1 With his high - strung nature , Lamb ...
... walks about her crowded streets , and I often shed tears in the motley Strand from fullness of joy at so much life . All these emotions must be strange to you ; so are your rural emotions to me . " 1 With his high - strung nature , Lamb ...
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... walks about his suburban retreat ( as he called it ) at Shacklewell , some children belonging to a school of industry had met us , and bowed and curtseyed , as he thought , in an especial manner to him . " They take me for a visiting ...
... walks about his suburban retreat ( as he called it ) at Shacklewell , some children belonging to a school of industry had met us , and bowed and curtseyed , as he thought , in an especial manner to him . " They take me for a visiting ...
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... walks unmo- 25 lested , and fancy myself of what degree or standing I please . I seem admitted ad eundem . I fetch up past opportunities . I can rise at the chapel - bell , and dream that it rings for me . In moods of humility I can be ...
... walks unmo- 25 lested , and fancy myself of what degree or standing I please . I seem admitted ad eundem . I fetch up past opportunities . I can rise at the chapel - bell , and dream that it rings for me . In moods of humility I can be ...
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... walks at these times are so much one's own , the tall 5 trees of Christ's , the groves of Magdalen ! The halls deserted , and with open doors , inviting one to slip in unperceived , and pay a devoir to some Founder , or noble or royal ...
... walks at these times are so much one's own , the tall 5 trees of Christ's , the groves of Magdalen ! The halls deserted , and with open doors , inviting one to slip in unperceived , and pay a devoir to some Founder , or noble or royal ...
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Página 93 - Withdraws into its happiness ; The mind, that ocean, where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find, Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas ; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide : There like a bird it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings ; And till prepared for longer flight,...
Página 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.
Página 123 - ... before me, or whose that bright hair was; and while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter to my view, receding, and still receding till nothing at last but two mournful features were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech : "We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and...
Página 119 - ... yet in some respects she might be said to be the mistress of it too) committed to her by the owner, who preferred living in a newer and more fashionable mansion which he had purchased somewhere in the adjoining county; but still she lived in it in a manner as if it had been her own, and kept up the dignity of the great house in a sort while she lived, which...
Página 122 - I bore his death as I thought pretty well at first, but afterwards it haunted and haunted me ; and though I did not cry or take it to heart as some do, and as I think he would have done if I had died, yet I missed him all day long, and knew not till then how much I had loved him.
Página 149 - The thing took wing and now there was nothing to be seen but fires in every direction. Fuel and pigs grew enormously dear all over the district. The insurance offices one and all shut up shop. People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the world.
Página 150 - See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth! Wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation. From these sins he is happily snatched away — Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care.
Página 146 - I take to be the elder brother) was accidentally discovered in the manner following. The swineherd, Ho-ti, having gone out into the woods one morning, as his manner was, to collect mast...
Página 149 - The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision : and, when the court was dismissed, went privily, and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town house was observed to be on fire.
Página 149 - Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.