The Essays of EliaMacmillan, 1894 - 425 pages |
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Page vii
... knew almost by heart : Beaumont and Fletcher , Massinger , Ford , and Webster , were hardly less familiar to him ; and next to these , the writers of the so - called meta- physical school , the later developments of the Euphuistic ...
... knew almost by heart : Beaumont and Fletcher , Massinger , Ford , and Webster , were hardly less familiar to him ; and next to these , the writers of the so - called meta- physical school , the later developments of the Euphuistic ...
Page viii
... knew the writings of Browne so well that not only does he quote him more often than any other author , but whenever he has to confront the mysteries of life and death his mental attitude at once assimilates to Browne's , and his English ...
... knew the writings of Browne so well that not only does he quote him more often than any other author , but whenever he has to confront the mysteries of life and death his mental attitude at once assimilates to Browne's , and his English ...
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... knew it- a magnificent relic ! What alterations may have been made in it since , I have had no opportunities of verifying . Time , I take for granted , has not freshened it . No wind has resuscitated the face of the sleeping waters . A ...
... knew it- a magnificent relic ! What alterations may have been made in it since , I have had no opportunities of verifying . Time , I take for granted , has not freshened it . No wind has resuscitated the face of the sleeping waters . A ...
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... knew not what he did , when he begat thee , like spring , gentle offspring of blustering winter - only unfortunate in thy ending , which should have been mild , conciliatory , swan - like . Much remains to sing . Many fantastic shapes ...
... knew not what he did , when he begat thee , like spring , gentle offspring of blustering winter - only unfortunate in thy ending , which should have been mild , conciliatory , swan - like . Much remains to sing . Many fantastic shapes ...
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... knew also , thou most assuredly wouldst never turn over one leaf of the illustrious folio : - -what but the mere spirit of contradiction , and childish love of getting the better of thy friend ? —Then , worst cut of all ! to transport ...
... knew also , thou most assuredly wouldst never turn over one leaf of the illustrious folio : - -what but the mere spirit of contradiction , and childish love of getting the better of thy friend ? —Then , worst cut of all ! to transport ...
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Page 32 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, 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.
Page 309 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Page 310 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace ; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Page 171 - See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth ! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood ? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation — from these sins he is happily snatched away — Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care...
Page 122 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Page xiii - ... out of doors to come just in time to see the sable phenomenon emerge in safety, the brandished weapon of his art victorious like some flag waved over a conquered citadel!
Page 32 - Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 290 - Then, even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me, Is constant love deem'd there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call 'virtue' there — ungratefulness? 94. Sleep /^OME, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace, ^** The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th...
Page 177 - It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness : for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Page 291 - The curious wits, seeing dull pensiveness Bewray itself in my long-settled eyes, Whence those same fumes of melancholy rise, With idle pains, and missing aim, do guess. Some, that know how my spring I did address, Deem that my Muse some fruit of knowledge plies ; Others, because...