The Essays of EliaE. Moxon, 1869 - 436 pages |
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... hear you exclaim , Reader , Who is Elia ? Because in my last I tried to divert thee with some half - forgotten humours of some old clerks defunct , in an old house of business , long since gone to decay , doubtless you have already set ...
... hear you exclaim , Reader , Who is Elia ? Because in my last I tried to divert thee with some half - forgotten humours of some old clerks defunct , in an old house of business , long since gone to decay , doubtless you have already set ...
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... hear mention of them without an accompanying feeling , as though a palpable obscure had dimmed the face of things , and that our ancestors wandered to and fro groping ! Above all thy rarities , old Oxenford , what do most arride and ...
... hear mention of them without an accompanying feeling , as though a palpable obscure had dimmed the face of things , and that our ancestors wandered to and fro groping ! Above all thy rarities , old Oxenford , what do most arride and ...
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... hear thee unfold , in thy deep and sweet intonations , the mysteries of Jamblichus , or Plotinus ( for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts ) , or reciting Homer in his Greek , or Pindar -while the ...
... hear thee unfold , in thy deep and sweet intonations , the mysteries of Jamblichus , or Plotinus ( for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts ) , or reciting Homer in his Greek , or Pindar -while the ...
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... hear it without a gathering - up of my mind to a con- centration of all the images that have been diffused over the past twelvemonth ; all I have done or suffered , performed or neglected - in that regretted time . I b gin to know its ...
... hear it without a gathering - up of my mind to a con- centration of all the images that have been diffused over the past twelvemonth ; all I have done or suffered , performed or neglected - in that regretted time . I b gin to know its ...
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... hear a person say , " You do not expect me to speak as if I were upon my oath . " Hence a great deal of incorrectness and inadvertency , short of false- hood , creeps into ordinary conversation ; and a kind of secondary or laic - truth ...
... hear a person say , " You do not expect me to speak as if I were upon my oath . " Hence a great deal of incorrectness and inadvertency , short of false- hood , creeps into ordinary conversation ; and a kind of secondary or laic - truth ...
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Page 136 - 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 161 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 136 - 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 33 - How have I seen the casual passer through the cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula), to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of Jamblichus or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar — while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy...
Page 78 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Page 100 - Ye have the account Of my performance : what remains, ye gods ! But up, and enter now into full bliss ?" So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear ; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn...
Page 191 - Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it. Then first began the rude form of a gridiron. Roasting by the string or spit came in a century or two later, I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the most useful,...
Page 135 - Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green. Ah! yet doth beauty, like a dial-hand, Steal from his figure and no pace perceived...
Page 335 - Despair at me doth throw. 0 make in me those civil wars to cease: 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
Page 34 - 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. Shakespeare with the 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.