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Pagina 14
... looks upon this picture and on that , there is no need to wonder that the poor girl was unhappy . The poet , though keenly alive to the subtle charm of a woman's personality , was unpractised in the arts of daily companionship . He ...
... looks upon this picture and on that , there is no need to wonder that the poor girl was unhappy . The poet , though keenly alive to the subtle charm of a woman's personality , was unpractised in the arts of daily companionship . He ...
Pagina 47
... look at , but those who laughed at him were careful to do so behind his gigantic back . When a rapacious bookseller insulted him he knocked him down . When the caricaturist Foote threatened to take him off upon the stage , the most ...
... look at , but those who laughed at him were careful to do so behind his gigantic back . When a rapacious bookseller insulted him he knocked him down . When the caricaturist Foote threatened to take him off upon the stage , the most ...
Pagina 63
... look back , but in Dryden she does ; and Pope followed Dryden , and did not look , at all events , any farther back . But what really is odd is that in Cowper's translation Briseis looks back too . Now , Cowper had been to a public ...
... look back , but in Dryden she does ; and Pope followed Dryden , and did not look , at all events , any farther back . But what really is odd is that in Cowper's translation Briseis looks back too . Now , Cowper had been to a public ...
Pagina 97
... look in vain . Modern press - readers are more squeamish than Mr. Took , who probably never conceived the possibility of Gulliver's Travels becoming a book for children . And yet we have Gay's word for it that from the first week ...
... look in vain . Modern press - readers are more squeamish than Mr. Took , who probably never conceived the possibility of Gulliver's Travels becoming a book for children . And yet we have Gay's word for it that from the first week ...
Pagina 105
... looks . He might if he were worldly wise Preferment get and spare his eyes ; But owns he has a stubborn spirit That made him trust alone to merit ; Would rise by merit to promotion . Alas ! a mere chimeric notion . Gay was found ...
... looks . He might if he were worldly wise Preferment get and spare his eyes ; But owns he has a stubborn spirit That made him trust alone to merit ; Would rise by merit to promotion . Alas ! a mere chimeric notion . Gay was found ...
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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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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.