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... lady the welcome assurance that he never got drunk twice in the same house . Failing all evidence to the contrary , we are bound to believe this to be true . It is a mitigat- ing circumstance . Wordsworth's boundless self - conceit ...
... lady the welcome assurance that he never got drunk twice in the same house . Failing all evidence to the contrary , we are bound to believe this to be true . It is a mitigat- ing circumstance . Wordsworth's boundless self - conceit ...
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... lady , with a smile , confessed the soundness of my logic ; and to her approbation of my arguments on her favourite topic that evening , I have always fancied myself indebted for the legacy of a curious cribbage board , made of the ...
... lady , with a smile , confessed the soundness of my logic ; and to her approbation of my arguments on her favourite topic that evening , I have always fancied myself indebted for the legacy of a curious cribbage board , made of the ...
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... lady was accustomed to defend her favourite pastime . No inducement could ever prevail upon her to play at any game where chance entered into the composition , for nothing . Chance , she would argue - and here again , admire the ...
... lady was accustomed to defend her favourite pastime . No inducement could ever prevail upon her to play at any game where chance entered into the composition , for nothing . Chance , she would argue - and here again , admire the ...
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... lady's judgment on these matters , I think I have experienced some moments in my life , when playing at cards for nothing has even been very agreeable . When I am in sickness , or not in the best spirits , I sometimes call for the cards ...
... lady's judgment on these matters , I think I have experienced some moments in my life , when playing at cards for nothing has even been very agreeable . When I am in sickness , or not in the best spirits , I sometimes call for the cards ...
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... lady seemed by no means a fit recipient . The guard came in with his usual peremptory notice . The Quakers pulled out their money , and formally tendered it -so much for tea - I , in humble imitation , tendering mine - for the supper ...
... lady seemed by no means a fit recipient . The guard came in with his usual peremptory notice . The Quakers pulled out their money , and formally tendered it -so much for tea - I , in humble imitation , tendering mine - for the supper ...
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Page 301 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 98 - 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 ii - WILL BE PLEASED TO SEND FREELY TO ALL APPLICANTS A LIST OF THE PUBLISHED AND PROJECTED VOLUMES...
Page 142 - ... of his age commonly are, let some sparks escape into a bundle of straw, which kindling quickly, spread the conflagration over every part of their poor mansion, till it was reduced to ashes. Together with the cottage (a sorry antediluvian makeshift of a building, you may think it), what was of much more importance, a fine litter of new-farrowed pigs, no less than nine in number, perished.
Page 99 - 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 141 - 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 99 - 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 68 - I confess that I do feel the differences of mankind, national or individual, to an unhealthy excess. I can look with no indifferent eye upon things or persons. Whatever is, is to me a matter of taste or distaste ; or when once it becomes indifferent, it begins to be disrelishing. I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices — made up of likings and dislikings — the veriest thrall to sympathies, apathies, antipathies.
Page 36 - Tells us, the day himself s not far ; And see where, breaking from the night, He gilds the western hills with light. With him old Janus doth appear, Peeping into the future year. With such a look as seems to say The prospect is not good that way.
Page 141 - 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...