Selected English EssaysWilliam Peacock |
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Page 263
... feel , do just as one pleases . We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all in- conveniences ; to leave ourselves behind , much more to get rid of others . It is because I want a little breathing - space to muse on ...
... feel , do just as one pleases . We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all in- conveniences ; to leave ourselves behind , much more to get rid of others . It is because I want a little breathing - space to muse on ...
Page 273
... feel stifled to find himself in the deserts of Arabia without friends and countrymen : there must be allowed to be something in the view of Athens or old Rome that claims the utterance of speech ; and I own that the Pyramids are too ...
... feel stifled to find himself in the deserts of Arabia without friends and countrymen : there must be allowed to be something in the view of Athens or old Rome that claims the utterance of speech ; and I own that the Pyramids are too ...
Page 364
... feeling dwelling in each that they had never heard a man like this ; that , on the whole , this is the man ! In the ... feel it so ? But now , were Dilettantism , Scepticism , Triviality , and all that sorrowful brood , cast - out of us ...
... feeling dwelling in each that they had never heard a man like this ; that , on the whole , this is the man ! In the ... feel it so ? But now , were Dilettantism , Scepticism , Triviality , and all that sorrowful brood , cast - out of us ...
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Abraham Newland admirable beautiful better called character Chioggia church colour Dante delight dinner drama Elena Elizabethan Era English face fancy feel fellow French Gaiety Theatre genius gentlemen Gerado give Goldsmith gondola grace Grand Canal hand head hear heart Hernani honour humour imagination Irenæus kind lady laugh learned live look Malamocco Malebranche matter Messer mind Molière morning murder nature never Nicolas Poussin night observed Oliver Goldsmith once painted passed passion perhaps person picture play pleasure poem poet poetry poor round Sarah Bernhardt seems sense Shakespeare Sicarii Sir Roger sleep sort soul speak spirit style sweet talk taste tell theatre things thought Tintoretto tion Toad-in-the-hole told town true truth turn Venice verse Victor Hugo walk whist whole wonder words write young
References to this book
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener No preview available - 1989 |
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener Limited preview - 1989 |