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Pagina 46
... remain , which may not be had with five hundred pounds a year ? Not so many servants or horses ; but a few good ones , which will do all the business as well : not so many choice dishes at every meal ; but at several meals all of them ...
... remain , which may not be had with five hundred pounds a year ? Not so many servants or horses ; but a few good ones , which will do all the business as well : not so many choice dishes at every meal ; but at several meals all of them ...
Pagina 58
... remain just as it is , to please us . " The present eye catches the present object " —to have and to hold while it may ; and abhors , on any terms , to have it torn from us , and nothing left in its room . It is the pang of parting ...
... remain just as it is , to please us . " The present eye catches the present object " —to have and to hold while it may ; and abhors , on any terms , to have it torn from us , and nothing left in its room . It is the pang of parting ...
Pagina 61
... remain only to mock me . I would wish them to be re - edified . I should like to see some prospect of good to mankind , such as my life began with . I should like to leave some sterling work behind me . I should like to have some ...
... remain only to mock me . I would wish them to be re - edified . I should like to see some prospect of good to mankind , such as my life began with . I should like to leave some sterling work behind me . I should like to have some ...
Pagina 67
... remain reflected by memory , as the moon reflects the light upon us when the sun has gone into heaven . When writers like ourselves quarrel with earthly pain ( we mean writers of the same intentions , without implying , of course ...
... remain reflected by memory , as the moon reflects the light upon us when the sun has gone into heaven . When writers like ourselves quarrel with earthly pain ( we mean writers of the same intentions , without implying , of course ...
Pagina 121
... remain un- shaken . It is to be judged by the fact that it succeeded in establishing a standard of humour which was taintless , in a day when humour was too much dependent on licentious- ness for its zest , and that , though the ...
... remain un- shaken . It is to be judged by the fact that it succeeded in establishing a standard of humour which was taintless , in a day when humour was too much dependent on licentious- ness for its zest , and that , though the ...
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The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
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Addison admirable April Fool Bacon beauty Bishop Bishop of Beauvais called Carlyle character Charles Lamb Charlesfort Church critical Daniel Defoe death Defoe delight Domrémy earth English essayists eyes fancy fear feel France garret genius give Goldsmith grave Gray hand hath hear heard heart heaven honour human humour hundred John Milton Johnson Jonathan Swift lady learned letter essay literary literature live look Lord Matthew Arnold ment Milton mind Montaigne moral nature never night observe Oliver Goldsmith once pain pass passion perhaps person pleasure poem poet poetry poor prose reader rest Richard Dowling Samuel Johnson seemed short-story essay sometimes soul spirit Stella style suffer sweet Swift thee things Thomas De Quincey thou thought tion told true truth turn verse whole William Hazlitt words writes young
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Pagina 327 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Pagina 101 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her \vith insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Pagina 317 - 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.
Pagina 41 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on. But when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers...
Pagina 288 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Pagina 289 - What we have to do is to be for ever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions, never acquiescing in a facile orthodoxy of Comte, or of Hegel, or of our own.
Pagina 289 - Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, - for that moment only.
Pagina 181 - I loved Ophelia : forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Pagina 287 - Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! There are our young barbarians, all at play ! And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection...
Pagina 143 - I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes in serious discourse, with this particular pleasure, which gives the only true relish to all conversation, a sense that every one of us liked each other. I went home considering the different conditions of a married life and that of a bachelor; and I must confess it struck me with a secret concern, to reflect, that whenever I go off I shall leave no traces behind me. In this pensive mood I...