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... reason mentioned before . Humourists , for they were of all descriptions ; and , not having been brought together in early life ( which has a tendency to assimilate the members of corporate bodies to each other ) , but , for the most ...
... reason mentioned before . Humourists , for they were of all descriptions ; and , not having been brought together in early life ( which has a tendency to assimilate the members of corporate bodies to each other ) , but , for the most ...
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... reason should Be superexcellently good : For the worst ills we daily see Have no more perpetuity Than the best fortunes that do fall ; Which also bring us wherewithal Longer their being to support , Than those do of the other sort : And ...
... reason should Be superexcellently good : For the worst ills we daily see Have no more perpetuity Than the best fortunes that do fall ; Which also bring us wherewithal Longer their being to support , Than those do of the other sort : And ...
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... reason for the deciding of the trump by the turn of the card . Why not one suit always trumps ? -Why two colors , when the mark of the suits would have sufficiently distinguished them without it ? - " But the eye , my dear Madam , is ...
... reason for the deciding of the trump by the turn of the card . Why not one suit always trumps ? -Why two colors , when the mark of the suits would have sufficiently distinguished them without it ? - " But the eye , my dear Madam , is ...
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... reason why For any former wrong or injury , Can neither find a blemish in his fame , Nor aught in face or feature justly blame , Can challenge or accuse him of no evil , Yet notwithstanding hates him as a devil . The lines are from old ...
... reason why For any former wrong or injury , Can neither find a blemish in his fame , Nor aught in face or feature justly blame , Can challenge or accuse him of no evil , Yet notwithstanding hates him as a devil . The lines are from old ...
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... reason for disbelieving one attested story of this nature more than another on the score of ab- surdity . There is no law to judge of the lawless , or canon by which a dream may be criticised . have sometimes thought that I could not ...
... reason for disbelieving one attested story of this nature more than another on the score of ab- surdity . There is no law to judge of the lawless , or canon by which a dream may be criticised . have sometimes thought that I could not ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admired April Fool beauty Benchers better Bo-bo Bridget character child CHRIST'S HOSPITAL comedy common confess countenance cousin day's pleasuring dear dreams Elgin marble Elia ESSAYS OF ELIA face fancy feel gentle gentleman give Gladmans grace guests hand hath head heard heart Hertfordshire honor hour humor imagination impertinent Inner Temple kind knew lady less lived look Malvolio manner Margate matter mind moral morning nature never night occasion once passed passion person play pleasant pleasure poor present pretty quadrille Quakers reason remember ROBERT WILLIAM ELLISTON scarce scene seemed seen sense sight Sir Philip Sydney smile sometimes sort speak spirit stand stood sure sweet taste tender theatre thee thing thou thought tion told true truth walk watchet whist young younkers youth
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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...