The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3Published for the proprietors, 1835 - English literature |
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... feels its promotion . * * * So that you see , upon the whole , the literary dignity of Elia is very little , if at all , compromised in the condescension . Not that , in my anxious detail of the many com- modities incidental to the life ...
... feels its promotion . * * * So that you see , upon the whole , the literary dignity of Elia is very little , if at all , compromised in the condescension . Not that , in my anxious detail of the many com- modities incidental to the life ...
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... feels practically that he is mortal . He knows it indeed , and , if need were , he could preach a ho- mily on the ... feel these audits but too powerfully . I begin to count the probabilities of my duration , and to grudge at the ...
... feels practically that he is mortal . He knows it indeed , and , if need were , he could preach a ho- mily on the ... feel these audits but too powerfully . I begin to count the probabilities of my duration , and to grudge at the ...
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... feel no disposi- tion to envy the mule for his plenty , or the mole for her exactness , in those ingenious labyrinthine inlets - those indispensable side - intelligencers . Neither have I incurred , or done any thing to incur , with ...
... feel no disposi- tion to envy the mule for his plenty , or the mole for her exactness , in those ingenious labyrinthine inlets - those indispensable side - intelligencers . Neither have I incurred , or done any thing to incur , with ...
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... feeling . In every thing that relates to science , I am a whole Encyclopædia behind the rest of the world . I should have scarcely cut a figure among the Franklins , or country gentlemen in king John's days . I know less geography than ...
... feeling . In every thing that relates to science , I am a whole Encyclopædia behind the rest of the world . I should have scarcely cut a figure among the Franklins , or country gentlemen in king John's days . I know less geography than ...
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... feeling . He was proud when I praised ; he was submissive when I reproved him ; but he did never love me - and what he now mistakes for gratitude and kindness for me , is but the pleasant sensation which all per- sons feel at revisiting ...
... feeling . He was proud when I praised ; he was submissive when I reproved him ; but he did never love me - and what he now mistakes for gratitude and kindness for me , is but the pleasant sensation which all per- sons feel at revisiting ...
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Page 30 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 55 - Father, the pig, the pig, do come and taste how nice the burnt pig eats." The ears of Ho-ti tingled with horror. He cursed his son, and he cursed himself that ever he should beget a son that should eat burnt pig.
Page 56 - He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed or boiled, but what a sacrifice of the exterior tegument ! There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted crackling...
Page 37 - Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Page 55 - MANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period is not obscurely hinted at by their great Confucius in the second chapter of his Mundane Mutations, where he designates a kind of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks
Page 37 - 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, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Page 110 - Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines ; Curl me about, ye gadding vines ; And oh so close your circles lace, That I may never leave this place...
Page 55 - The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting, or rather broiling, (which I take to be the elder brother,) was accidentally discovered in the manner following. The swineherd, Ho-ti, having gone out into the woods one morning, as his manner was, to collect mast for his hogs, left his cottage in the care of his eldest son Bo-bo, a great lubberly boy, who being fond of playing with fire, as...
Page 45 - ... came to decay, and was nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments stripped and carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " That would be foolish indeed.
Page 55 - What could it proceed from? — not from the burnt cottage — he had smelt that smell before — indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young firebrand.