Essays of Elia, and Eliana. With a memoir by Barry Cornwall, Volume 1G. Bell, 1879 |
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... sort of marked people . " At another time he says , " I consider her as perpetu- ally on the brink of madness . " And so , indeed , she continued during the remainder of her life ; and she lived to the age of eighty - two years ...
... sort of marked people . " At another time he says , " I consider her as perpetu- ally on the brink of madness . " And so , indeed , she continued during the remainder of her life ; and she lived to the age of eighty - two years ...
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... sort of frail crude , but to stay its ripening into visits . probability Mary will be at Southampton Row this morning , and something of that kind be ma- tured between you , but in any case not many hours shall elapse before I shake you ...
... sort of frail crude , but to stay its ripening into visits . probability Mary will be at Southampton Row this morning , and something of that kind be ma- tured between you , but in any case not many hours shall elapse before I shake you ...
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... sorted to the British Museum ; which he had been in the habit of frequenting formerly , when his first " Dramatic Specimens " were published . Now he went there to make other extracts from the old plays . These were entitled " The ...
... sorted to the British Museum ; which he had been in the habit of frequenting formerly , when his first " Dramatic Specimens " were published . Now he went there to make other extracts from the old plays . These were entitled " The ...
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... sort of Noah's ark . Odd fishes . A lay - monastery . Do- mestic retainers in a great house , kept more for show than use . Yet pleasant fellows , full of chat- and not a few among them had arrived at consider- able proficiency on the ...
... sort of Noah's ark . Odd fishes . A lay - monastery . Do- mestic retainers in a great house , kept more for show than use . Yet pleasant fellows , full of chat- and not a few among them had arrived at consider- able proficiency on the ...
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... sort of creature . Thence all ideas , that were purely ornamental , were banished . You could not speak of anything romantic without rebuke . [ I have since been informed , that the present tenant of them is a Mr. Lamb , a gentleman who ...
... sort of creature . Thence all ideas , that were purely ornamental , were banished . You could not speak of anything romantic without rebuke . [ I have since been informed , that the present tenant of them is a Mr. Lamb , a gentleman who ...
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Page 302 - Far other worlds, and other seas ; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. 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 claps its silver wings ; And till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Page 188 - 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 302 - 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 328 - We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice called Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name...
Page 198 - Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection, be shy of showing it; or if thy heart overfloweth to lend them, lend thy books; but let it be to such a one as STC ; he will return them (generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury; enriched with annotations, tripling their value.
Page 191 - THE human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic tribes, white men, black men, red men. All the dwellers upon earth, " Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites," flock hither, and do naturally fall in with one or other of these primary distinctions.
Page 399 - THE artificial Comedy, or Comedy of manners, is quite extinct on our stage. Congreve and Farquhar show their heads once in seven years only, to be exploded and put down instantly. The times cannot bear them.
Page 264 - 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 370 - Whether, supposing that the flavour of a pig who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremam) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting the animal to death ?
Page 189 - 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.