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... with majestical beauty . I would neither wish that my mistress , nor my fortune ,
should be a bona roba , nor , as Homer uses to describe his beauties , like a
daughter of great Jupiter , for the stateliness and largeness of her person ; but ,
as ...
Pagina 50
Why was Jove himself nursed upon a mountain ? or why did the goddesses ,
when the prize of beauty was contested , try the cause upon the top of Ida ? Such
were the fictions by which the great masters of the earlier ages endeavoured ...
Why was Jove himself nursed upon a mountain ? or why did the goddesses ,
when the prize of beauty was contested , try the cause upon the top of Ida ? Such
were the fictions by which the great masters of the earlier ages endeavoured ...
... that life seems to ebb with the decay of blood and youthful spirits ; and that as
we find everything about us subject to chance and change , as our strength and
beauty die , as our hopes and passions , our friends and our affections leave us ...
Pagina 95
... to esteem you against his Judgment ; and although he is not capable of using
you ill , yet you will in time grow a thing indifferent and perhaps contemptible ;
unless you can supply the loss of Youth and Beauty with more durable qualities .
... to esteem you against his Judgment ; and although he is not capable of using
you ill , yet you will in time grow a thing indifferent and perhaps contemptible ;
unless you can supply the loss of Youth and Beauty with more durable qualities .
Pagina 142
But as to what you say of fifteen , she gives me every day pleasures beyond what
I ever knew in the possession of her beauty , when I was in the vigour of youth .
Every moment of her life brings me fresh instances of her complacency to my ...
But as to what you say of fifteen , she gives me every day pleasures beyond what
I ever knew in the possession of her beauty , when I was in the vigour of youth .
Every moment of her life brings me fresh instances of her complacency to my ...
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The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
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Pagina 330 - 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 290 - 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 319 - 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 337 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Pagina 29 - It is a strange thing to note the excess of this passion, and how it braves the nature and value of things by this, that the speaking in a perpetual hyperbole, is comely in nothing but in love : neither is it merely in the phrase; for whereas it hath been well said, " That the arch " flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have " intelligence, is a man's self...
Pagina 41 - Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on...
Pagina 291 - 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 237 - And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, And as the hasty fruit before the summer; Which when he that looketh upon it seeth, While it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
Pagina 183 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Pagina 289 - 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...