The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3Published for the proprietors, 1835 |
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... never ven- tured to open a book of business , or bill of lading- the costly vellum covers of some of them almost persuading us that we are got into some better li- brary , are very agreeable and edifying spectacles . I can look upon ...
... never ven- tured to open a book of business , or bill of lading- the costly vellum covers of some of them almost persuading us that we are got into some better li- brary , are very agreeable and edifying spectacles . I can look upon ...
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... never return but they bring with them a gloom from the haunting memory of those whole - day - leaves when , by some strange arrangement , we were turned out , for the live - long day , upon our own hands , whether we had friends to go ...
... never return but they bring with them a gloom from the haunting memory of those whole - day - leaves when , by some strange arrangement , we were turned out , for the live - long day , upon our own hands , whether we had friends to go ...
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... never touched us ; contrary to Gideon's mira- cle , while all around were drenched , our fleece was dry . * His boys turned out the better scholars ; we , I suspect , have the advantage in temper . His pupils cannot speak of him without ...
... never touched us ; contrary to Gideon's mira- cle , while all around were drenched , our fleece was dry . * His boys turned out the better scholars ; we , I suspect , have the advantage in temper . His pupils cannot speak of him without ...
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... never made a revoke , nor ever passed it over in her adversary without exacting the utmost forfeiture . She fought a good fight cut and thrust . She held not her good sword ( her cards ) " like a dancer . " She sat bolt upright ; and ...
... never made a revoke , nor ever passed it over in her adversary without exacting the utmost forfeiture . She fought a good fight cut and thrust . She held not her good sword ( her cards ) " like a dancer . " She sat bolt upright ; and ...
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... never greatly taken with cribbage . It was an essentially vulgar game , I have heard her say , -disputing with her uncle , who was very partial to it . She could never hear- tily bring her mouth to pronounce " go " or " that's a go ...
... never greatly taken with cribbage . It was an essentially vulgar game , I have heard her say , -disputing with her uncle , who was very partial to it . She could never hear- tily bring her mouth to pronounce " go " or " that's a go ...
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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.