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Pagina 7
... delight to feast on Dante , Petrarch , and many others ; nor has Athens itself been able to confine me to the transparent waves of its Ilissus , nor ancient Rome to the banks of its Tiber , so as to prevent my visiting with delight the ...
... delight to feast on Dante , Petrarch , and many others ; nor has Athens itself been able to confine me to the transparent waves of its Ilissus , nor ancient Rome to the banks of its Tiber , so as to prevent my visiting with delight the ...
Pagina 10
... delightful of travelling companions , and as easy as an old shoe . A humaner man than Milton , a wiser man than Evelyn - with none of the constraint of Gray , or the strange though fascinating outlandish- ness of ΙΟ JOHN MILTON.
... delightful of travelling companions , and as easy as an old shoe . A humaner man than Milton , a wiser man than Evelyn - with none of the constraint of Gray , or the strange though fascinating outlandish- ness of ΙΟ JOHN MILTON.
Pagina 47
... delighted , arm - in - arm with a friend , to skate furiously on the fens , never could be brought to share the fears entertained on his behalf by some of the less stalwart of his acquaintances . 66 " Why , " he used to exclaim ...
... delighted , arm - in - arm with a friend , to skate furiously on the fens , never could be brought to share the fears entertained on his behalf by some of the less stalwart of his acquaintances . 66 " Why , " he used to exclaim ...
Pagina 51
... delightful reading , and Pope's is one of the very best of them.1 None knew the infirmities of ordinary human nature better than Johnson . They neither angered him nor amused him ; he neither storms , sneers , nor chuckles as he records ...
... delightful reading , and Pope's is one of the very best of them.1 None knew the infirmities of ordinary human nature better than Johnson . They neither angered him nor amused him ; he neither storms , sneers , nor chuckles as he records ...
Pagina 58
... delights , and giving my thoughts a loose into the contemplation of those sensations of satisfaction which probably we may taste in the more exalted company of separate spirits , when we range the starry walks above and gaze on the ...
... delights , and giving my thoughts a loose into the contemplation of those sensations of satisfaction which probably we may taste in the more exalted company of separate spirits , when we range the starry walks above and gaze on the ...
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The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880 ... Augustine Birrell Volledige weergave - 1922 |
The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880 ... Augustine Birrell Volledige weergave - 1922 |
The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell ..., Volume 1 Augustine Birrell Volledige weergave - 1922 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 78 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Pagina 33 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Pagina 72 - Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth ! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Pagina 221 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Pagina 221 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Pagina 239 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son, Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
Pagina 103 - How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!
Pagina 116 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Pagina 9 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Pagina 74 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.