The Essays of EliaHoughton, Mifflin, and Company, 1907 - 226 páginas |
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... late friend was in many respects a singular character . Those who did not like him , hated him and some , who once liked him , after- wards became his bitterest haters . The truth is he gave himself too little concern what he uttered ...
... late friend was in many respects a singular character . Those who did not like him , hated him and some , who once liked him , after- wards became his bitterest haters . The truth is he gave himself too little concern what he uttered ...
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... late the members of corporate bodies to each other ) , but , for the most part , placed in this house in ripe or middle age , they necessarily carried into it their separate habits and oddities , unqualified , if I may so speak , as ...
... late the members of corporate bodies to each other ) , but , for the most part , placed in this house in ripe or middle age , they necessarily carried into it their separate habits and oddities , unqualified , if I may so speak , as ...
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... late hour of my life , I trace impressions left by the recollection of those friendless holidays . The long warm days of summer never return but they bring with them a gloom from the haunting memory of those whole - day - leaves , when ...
... late hour of my life , I trace impressions left by the recollection of those friendless holidays . The long warm days of summer never return but they bring with them a gloom from the haunting memory of those whole - day - leaves , when ...
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... late " watchet weeds " 21 carefully effaced , he was exposed in a jacket , resembling those which London lamplighters formerly delighted in , with a cap of the same . The effect of this divestiture was such as the ingenious devisers of ...
... late " watchet weeds " 21 carefully effaced , he was exposed in a jacket , resembling those which London lamplighters formerly delighted in , with a cap of the same . The effect of this divestiture was such as the ingenious devisers of ...
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... Her illustrations were apposite and poignant ; and I had the pleasure of send- ing the substance of them to Mr. Bowles : 2 but I sup- pose they came too late to be inserted among his MRS . BATTLE'S OPINIONS ON WHIST 31.
... Her illustrations were apposite and poignant ; and I had the pleasure of send- ing the substance of them to Mr. Bowles : 2 but I sup- pose they came too late to be inserted among his MRS . BATTLE'S OPINIONS ON WHIST 31.
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Página 27 - Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the dayspring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Logician, Metaphysician, Bard ! — 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...
Página 52 - Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire — stories of Celaeno and the Harpies — may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition ; but they were there before. They are transcripts, types, — the archetypes are in us, and eternal.
Página 116 - James White is extinct, and with him these suppers have long ceased. He carried away with him half the fun of the world when he died — of my world at least.
Página 98 - 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 must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
Página 97 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; 8 and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was...
Página 134 - Agathocles' pot — a Mordecai in your gate— a Lazarus at your door — a lion in your path — a frog in your chamber — a fly in your ointment — a mote in your eye — a triumph to your enemy— an apology to your friends — the one thing not needful — the hail in harvest — the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet.
Página 94 - ... where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the Abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, That would be foolish, indeed.
Página 41 - I even think that sentimentally I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune. I have been practising
Página 121 - 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 53 - 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.