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... Nature certainly had been pleased to endow John Tipp with a sufficient measure of the principle of self - preservation . There is a cowardice which we do not de- spise , because it has nothing base or treacherous in its elements ; it ...
... Nature certainly had been pleased to endow John Tipp with a sufficient measure of the principle of self - preservation . There is a cowardice which we do not de- spise , because it has nothing base or treacherous in its elements ; it ...
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... natural terrors of initiation . I was of tender years , barely turned of seven ; and had only read of such things in books , or seen them but in dreams . I was told he had run away . This was the punishment for the first offence . — As ...
... natural terrors of initiation . I was of tender years , barely turned of seven ; and had only read of such things in books , or seen them but in dreams . I was told he had run away . This was the punishment for the first offence . — As ...
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... my theory as to the great race , I would put it to the most untheorising reader , who may at times have disposable coin in his pocket , whether it is not more repug- none . nant to the kindliness of his nature to refuse such 30 ELIA .
... my theory as to the great race , I would put it to the most untheorising reader , who may at times have disposable coin in his pocket , whether it is not more repug- none . nant to the kindliness of his nature to refuse such 30 ELIA .
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First Series - Second Series Charles Lamb. nant to the kindliness of his nature to refuse such a one as I am describing , than to say no to a poor petitionary rogue ( your bas- tard borrower ) , who , by his mumping visnomy , tells you ...
First Series - Second Series Charles Lamb. nant to the kindliness of his nature to refuse such a one as I am describing , than to say no to a poor petitionary rogue ( your bas- tard borrower ) , who , by his mumping visnomy , tells you ...
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... nature ( my friend's gatherings in his various calls ) , picked up , he has forgotten at what odd places , and deposited with as little memory at mine . I take in these orphans , the twice - deserted . These proselytes of the gate are ...
... nature ( my friend's gatherings in his various calls ) , picked up , he has forgotten at what odd places , and deposited with as little memory at mine . I take in these orphans , the twice - deserted . These proselytes of the gate are ...
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Página 114 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Página 84 - 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?
Página 26 - How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula), to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of Jamblichus, or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar— —while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy!...
Página 84 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Página 27 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare with the English man-ofwar, 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 158 - Bo-bo was strictly enjoined not to let the secret escape, for the neighbors would certainly have stoned them for a couple of abominable wretches, who could think of improving upon the good meat which God had sent them. Nevertheless, strange stories got about. It was observed that Ho-ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever. Nothing but fires from this time forward.
Página 159 - 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.
Página 85 - Then, even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me, Is constant love deem'd there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call 'virtue' there — ungratefulness? 94. Sleep /^OME, 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, Th...
Página 85 - 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 ; With shield of proof, shield me from out the prease Of those fierce darts despair at me doth throw.
Página 133 - ... look at — -or in lying about upon the fresh grass, with all the fine garden smells around me — or basking in the orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening, too, along with the oranges and the limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the...