Elia, Volume 1Edward Moxon, 1836 |
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... THE SUPERANNUATED MAN 92 THE GENTEEL STYLE IN WRITING 105 BARBARA S THE TOMBS IN THE ABBEY . 114 124 AMICUS REDIVIVUS 129 SOME SONNETS OF SIR PHILIP SYDNEY . 138 NEWSPAPERS THIRTY - FIVE YEARS AGO BARRENNESS OF THE IMAGINATIVE.
... THE SUPERANNUATED MAN 92 THE GENTEEL STYLE IN WRITING 105 BARBARA S THE TOMBS IN THE ABBEY . 114 124 AMICUS REDIVIVUS 129 SOME SONNETS OF SIR PHILIP SYDNEY . 138 NEWSPAPERS THIRTY - FIVE YEARS AGO BARRENNESS OF THE IMAGINATIVE.
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... and the best but like a froward child , that must be played with , and humoured a little , to keep it quiet , till it falls asleep , and then the care is over . " 114 BARBARA S On the noon of the 14th of THE GENTEEL STYLE IN WRITING . 113.
... and the best but like a froward child , that must be played with , and humoured a little , to keep it quiet , till it falls asleep , and then the care is over . " 114 BARBARA S On the noon of the 14th of THE GENTEEL STYLE IN WRITING . 113.
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Charles Lamb. 114 BARBARA S On the noon of the 14th of November , 1743 or 4 , I forget which it was , just as the clock had struck one , Barbara S , with her accustomed punc- tuality , ascended the long rambling staircase , with awkward ...
Charles Lamb. 114 BARBARA S On the noon of the 14th of November , 1743 or 4 , I forget which it was , just as the clock had struck one , Barbara S , with her accustomed punc- tuality , ascended the long rambling staircase , with awkward ...
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... Barbara . She had already drawn tears in young Arthur ; had rallied Richard with infantine petulance in the Duke of York ; and in her turn had rebuked that petulance when she was Prince of Wales . She would have done the elder child in ...
... Barbara . She had already drawn tears in young Arthur ; had rallied Richard with infantine petulance in the Duke of York ; and in her turn had rebuked that petulance when she was Prince of Wales . She would have done the elder child in ...
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... rather than express a present one . She indignantly repelled the notion , that with a truly great trage- dian the operation , by which such effects were pro- duced upon an audience , could ever degrade itself into 116 BARBARA S.
... rather than express a present one . She indignantly repelled the notion , that with a truly great trage- dian the operation , by which such effects were pro- duced upon an audience , could ever degrade itself into 116 BARBARA S.
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admirable Æneid appeared April Fool artist Ash Wednesday Barbara beautiful Belshazzar better cheerful child conceit confess countenance DAN STUART day's pleasuring doth dreams face faculty fancy feel fête champêtre genius gentleman give gone grace guests half hand head heard heart honour hour humour imagination infirmities lady late less look Lord Lord Mayor's Day Margate mighty mind morning mortal nature ness never night notion occasion once pain passion perhaps person picture play pleasant pleasure poor present pretty reader reason remember right hand path ROBERT WILLIAM ELLISTON scarce seemed seen sense Shrove Tuesday sick sight Sir Philip Sydney sitting sleep Somerset House sort speak spirit sure sweet taste thee thing thou thought tion Titian told true truth walk week whole wish wonder young youth
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Página 47 - But where a book is at once both good and rare — where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine...
Página 174 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Página 141 - 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 223 - ... pushed about and squeezed, and elbowed by the poorest rabble of poor gallery scramblers — could I once more hear those anxious shrieks of yours — and the delicious Thank God, we are safe, which always followed when the topmost stair, conquered, let in the first light of the whole cheerful theatre down beneath us — I know not the fathom line that ever touched a descent so deep as I would be willing to bury more wealth in than Croesus had, or the great Jew R is supposed to have, to purchase...
Página 142 - 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!
Página 142 - Despair at me doth throw. 0 make in me those civil wars to cease: 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
Página 149 - Despair at me doth throw; 0 make in me those civil wars to cease : 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed ; A chamber, deaf to noise, and blind to light; A rosy garland, and a weary head.
Página vi - I grant you — a sort of unlicked, incondite things — villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than to affect a naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him.
Página 11 - He remembereth birth-days, and professeth he is fortunate to have stumbled upon one. He declareth against fish, the turbot being small, yet suffereth himself to be importuned into a slice against his first resolution. He sticketh by the port, yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are fearful of being too obsequious, or not civil enough to him. The guests think
Página 177 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.