Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 29
Page 2
... green boughs wrest- ling with the wind , or dancing in the air to the sound of their own music ; to lose the song of the lark , the nightingale , the blackbird , and the thrush ; the sight of the waving corn , the green and flowery ...
... green boughs wrest- ling with the wind , or dancing in the air to the sound of their own music ; to lose the song of the lark , the nightingale , the blackbird , and the thrush ; the sight of the waving corn , the green and flowery ...
Page 9
... green heads , spite of all the mortgagees and woodmen in existence . Show me the terra - firma in Yorkshire that can with impunity make such a boast as this . Mine is an estate upon which I can reside all the year round , and laugh at ...
... green heads , spite of all the mortgagees and woodmen in existence . Show me the terra - firma in Yorkshire that can with impunity make such a boast as this . Mine is an estate upon which I can reside all the year round , and laugh at ...
Page 29
... green livery of Nature has been rendered peculiarly grateful and refreshing . This little organ , like the vases of the Belides , is never filled , although perpetually replenish- ed ; and we pass from the contemplation of natural ...
... green livery of Nature has been rendered peculiarly grateful and refreshing . This little organ , like the vases of the Belides , is never filled , although perpetually replenish- ed ; and we pass from the contemplation of natural ...
Page 39
... green leaves ; and our fields must nourish no types of that blooming fruit which flourished upon the borders of the Dead Sea . Truth declares the existence of evil , moral and physical ; we must , there- fore , use no disguises to ...
... green leaves ; and our fields must nourish no types of that blooming fruit which flourished upon the borders of the Dead Sea . Truth declares the existence of evil , moral and physical ; we must , there- fore , use no disguises to ...
Page 73
... green ocean is studded with the white sails of barks ( like daisies in the grass ) hastening to the ceremony , from Attica , Boeotia , and Thessaly ; from Lesbos and Crete ; from Ionia and the coasts of Asiatic Greece . As they ap ...
... green ocean is studded with the white sails of barks ( like daisies in the grass ) hastening to the ceremony , from Attica , Boeotia , and Thessaly ; from Lesbos and Crete ; from Ionia and the coasts of Asiatic Greece . As they ap ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
amid Anacreon ancient animal Apollo appearance Balaam beautiful behold beneath bipeds Boeotia breath celebrated classical cried dæmon dancing dark deity delight earth enjoyment exclaim exegi existence eyes Falstaff fancy feeling flowers France French friends garden gaze glorious golden grave green half hand happy hast head heart Heaven honour human imagination Izaak Walton King kiss leaves light lips live look Lord luxury ment midnight bell mind Molière Mont Blanc moon morning nature never night noble nose nymphs once Ovid Palace of Truth Père La Chaise perpetually PINDARICS plants pleasure poet poetical poor pride racter reader recollect rience Roman Romford round scene seeds seems Shakspeare shower silent skies sleep smile solemn soul spirit taste thee Thessaly thing thou thought tion tomb trees vegetable Voltaire walk waters whence whole wind wonder woods young