Dreamthorp: a Book of Essays Written in the CountryStrahan, 1863 - 296 páginas |
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... pleasure in the task , as the people of old , when Elizabeth was queen , took in the adornment of the May - pole against a summer festival . And , just think , not only Dreamthorp , but every Eng- lish village she has made beautiful ...
... pleasure in the task , as the people of old , when Elizabeth was queen , took in the adornment of the May - pole against a summer festival . And , just think , not only Dreamthorp , but every Eng- lish village she has made beautiful ...
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... pleasure of twirling them , or for the sake of looking busy , does not deserve any rapturous paean of praise . I must be made happy after my own fashion , not after the fashion of other people . Here I can live as I please , here I can ...
... pleasure of twirling them , or for the sake of looking busy , does not deserve any rapturous paean of praise . I must be made happy after my own fashion , not after the fashion of other people . Here I can live as I please , here I can ...
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... pleasure in them , that suggests supe- riority in matters of equipage and furniture ; and the egotism is offensive , because it runs counter to and jostles your self - complacency . The egotism which rises no higher than the grave is of ...
... pleasure in them , that suggests supe- riority in matters of equipage and furniture ; and the egotism is offensive , because it runs counter to and jostles your self - complacency . The egotism which rises no higher than the grave is of ...
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... are Whatever he says sug- very characteristic of him . gests its opposite . He laughs at himself and his reader . He builds his castle of cards for the mere 1 A pleasure of knocking it down again . He is On the Writing of Essays . 35.
... are Whatever he says sug- very characteristic of him . gests its opposite . He laughs at himself and his reader . He builds his castle of cards for the mere 1 A pleasure of knocking it down again . He is On the Writing of Essays . 35.
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Alexander Smith. A pleasure of knocking it down again . He is ever un- 1 expected and surprising . And with this curious mental activity , this play and linked dance of dis- cordant elements , his page is alive and restless , like the ...
Alexander Smith. A pleasure of knocking it down again . He is ever un- 1 expected and surprising . And with this curious mental activity , this play and linked dance of dis- cordant elements , his page is alive and restless , like the ...
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32 LUDGATE HILL Arcite ballads beautiful beneath Bishop of Argyll burning Canterbury Tales Charles Lamb charm Chaucer Christian clergyman Clerk Saunders cloth colour Constance Corn-laws Crown 8vo dead death delight Dreamthorp Dunbar Ebenezer Elliott egotist English essayist Essays everything face fancy feeling flowers friends garden Gascon genius grave green hand happy hear heart heaven human humour imagination Jack Ketch kind king Knight's Tale lark letters light literary lives look lovers melancholy mind Montaigne mood moral morning nature ness never night noble NORMAN MACLEOD once Palamon passion peculiar pleasant pleasure poems poet reader rich rose satire Scottish Shakspeare silent singing sitting sleep song speak story STRAHAN strange sunset sweet tender Theseus things thought THOUSAND tion Tom Jones touch trees vagabond vanity village voice walk whole Wife of Bath writing young