A Century of English Essays: An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson, & the Writers of Our TimeJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1915 - 474 páginas |
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A Century of English Essays: An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R.L ... Ernest Rhys,Lloyd Vaughan Visualização integral - 1920 |
A Century of English Essays: An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R.L ... Visualização integral - 1920 |
A Century of English Essays: An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R.L ... Ernest Rhys,Lloyd Vaughan Visualização integral - 1916 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance admiration appear beauty better body called character conversation Country Court death delight Demosthenes discommending discourse dream E. V. Lucas eyes face fancy father feel fences of shame followed fortune Friend Sir ROGER G. K. Chesterton garden Gentleman give hand happy hath head hear heard heart Honour human Humour imagination James Miller Jeems kind Lady laugh learned Lebanon living look looking-glass Lord Macbeth manner Master mind morning nature never night object observed occasion once passion person play pleased pleasure poor present pretty Pyrrhus remember rich ROGER DE COVERLEY round saith Samuel Johnson seemed seen sense Servants side Sir Richard Baker soul speak spirit talk Tatler tell thee things thou thought tion told town turned W. B. Yeats whole woman word young
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Página xiii - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 164 - 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 189 - MANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period is not obscurely hinted at by their great Confucius in the second chapter of his Mundane Mutations, where he designates a kind of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks
Página 295 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Página 180 - ... by herself in a lone chamber of the great lone house; and how she believed that an apparition of two infants was to be seen at midnight gliding up and down the great staircase near where she slept, but she said, "those innocents would do her no harm...
Página 183 - I seem to remember having been told, that a bad sweep was once left in a stack with his brush, to indicate which way the wind blew. It was an awful spectacle certainly ; not much unlike the old stage direction in Macbeth, where the "Apparition of a child crowned with a tree in his hand rises.
Página 1 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Página xiii - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 305 - Praise ye him, all his angels : Praise ye him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light.
Página 73 - Some of them could not refrain from tears at the sight of their old master ; every one of them pressed forward to do something for him, and seemed discouraged if they were not employed.