The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3Published for the proprietors, 1835 |
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... brought together in early life , ( which has a tendency to assimilate the members of corporate bodies to each other ) but , for the most part , placed in this house in ripe or middle age , they necessari- ly carried into it their ...
... brought together in early life , ( which has a tendency to assimilate the members of corporate bodies to each other ) but , for the most part , placed in this house in ripe or middle age , they necessari- ly carried into it their ...
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... brought , and in the line just above that in which he is about to print his second name , ( his rescript , ) his first name ( scarce dry ) looks out upon him like another Sosia , or as if a man should suddenly encounter his own ...
... brought , and in the line just above that in which he is about to print his second name , ( his rescript , ) his first name ( scarce dry ) looks out upon him like another Sosia , or as if a man should suddenly encounter his own ...
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... brought him his bread and water - who might not speak to him ; — or of the beadle , who came twice a week to call him out to receive his periodical chastisement , him for a brief interval from solitude : -- and here which was almost ...
... brought him his bread and water - who might not speak to him ; — or of the beadle , who came twice a week to call him out to receive his periodical chastisement , him for a brief interval from solitude : -- and here which was almost ...
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... brought up , were of a character not likely to let slip the sacred ob- servance of any old institution , and the ringing out of the old year was kept by them with circum- stances of peculiar ceremony . In those days the sound of those ...
... brought up , were of a character not likely to let slip the sacred ob- servance of any old institution , and the ringing out of the old year was kept by them with circum- stances of peculiar ceremony . In those days the sound of those ...
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... brought to digest thee , thou thin , melancholy Privation , or more frightful and con- founding Positive ! Those antidotes , prescribed against the fear of thee , are altogether frigid and insulting , like thy- self . For what ...
... brought to digest thee , thou thin , melancholy Privation , or more frightful and con- founding Positive ! Those antidotes , prescribed against the fear of thee , are altogether frigid and insulting , like thy- self . For what ...
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Page 39 - Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness: The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas, Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
Page 49 - And immediately awaking, I found myself quietly seated in my bachelor armchair, where I had fallen asleep, with the faithful Bridget unchanged by my side — but John L. (or James Elia) was gone for ever.
Page 57 - 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 swine-herd, Ho-ti, having gone out into the woods one morning, as his manner was, to collect mast for...
Page 40 - twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new; Where from above the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run; And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers!
Page 11 - 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 58 - 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 48 - L , because he was so handsome and spirited a youth, and a king to the rest of us ; and, instead of moping about in solitary corners, like some of us, he would mount the most mettlesome horse he could get, when but an imp no bigger than themselves, and make it carry him half over the county in a morning, and join the hunters when there were any out — and yet he loved the old great house and gardens too, but had too much spirit to be always pent up within their boundaries...
Page 106 - Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet ; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse ; his talk a trouble ; his stay pertinacious ; and when he goeth away, you dismiss his chair into a corner, as precipitately as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances. There is a worse evil under the sun, and that is— a female Poor Relation. You may do something with the other ; you may pass him...
Page 57 - While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odour assailed his nostrils, unlike any scent which he had before experienced.
Page 84 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.