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Page 152
... and then seriously ask himself , whether the subject of such absorbing and confounding regrets could have been that thing which Lord Oxford termed him . 153 NEWSPAPERS THIRTY - FIVE YEARS AGO . DAN STUART 152 SIR PHILIP SYDNEY'S SONnets .
... and then seriously ask himself , whether the subject of such absorbing and confounding regrets could have been that thing which Lord Oxford termed him . 153 NEWSPAPERS THIRTY - FIVE YEARS AGO . DAN STUART 152 SIR PHILIP SYDNEY'S SONnets .
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Charles Lamb. 153 NEWSPAPERS THIRTY - FIVE YEARS AGO . DAN STUART once told us , that he did not remember that he ever deliberately walked into the Exhibition at Somerset House in his life . He might occasionally have escorted a party of ...
Charles Lamb. 153 NEWSPAPERS THIRTY - FIVE YEARS AGO . DAN STUART once told us , that he did not remember that he ever deliberately walked into the Exhibition at Somerset House in his life . He might occasionally have escorted a party of ...
Page 155
... Dan Stuart's settled remu- neration in these cases . The chat of the day , scandal , but , above all , dress , furnished the mate- rial . The length of no paragraph was to exceed seven lines . Shorter they might be , but they must be ...
... Dan Stuart's settled remu- neration in these cases . The chat of the day , scandal , but , above all , dress , furnished the mate- rial . The length of no paragraph was to exceed seven lines . Shorter they might be , but they must be ...
Page 165
... Dan Stuart made that curious confession to us , that he had " never deli- berately walked into an Exhibition at Somerset House in his life . " 166 BARRENNESS OF THE IMAGINATIVE FACULTY IN THE THE OF NEWSPAPERS THIRTY - FIVE YEARS AGO . 165.
... Dan Stuart made that curious confession to us , that he had " never deli- berately walked into an Exhibition at Somerset House in his life . " 166 BARRENNESS OF THE IMAGINATIVE FACULTY IN THE THE OF NEWSPAPERS THIRTY - FIVE YEARS AGO . 165.
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Page 141 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries...
Page 44 - To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's self with the forced product of another man's brain. Now I think a man of quality and breeding may be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own.
Page 223 - ... pushed about and squeezed, and elbowed by the poorest rabble of poor gallery scramblers — could I once more hear those anxious shrieks of yours — and the delicious Thank God, we are safe, which always followed when the topmost stair, conquered, let in the first light of the whole cheerful theatre down beneath us — I know not the fathom line that ever touched a descent so deep as I would be willing to bury more wealth in than Croesus had, or the great Jew R is supposed to have, to purchase...
Page 149 - 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.
Page vi - I grant you — a sort of unlicked, incondite things — villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than to affect a naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him.
Page 174 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Page 177 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 148 - By no encroachment wrong'd, nor time forgot ; Nor blamed for blood, nor shamed for sinful deed. And that you know, I envy you no lot Of highest wish, I wish you so much bliss, Hundreds of years you STELLA'S feet may kiss.
Page 214 - Here is a young and courtly Mandarin, handing tea to a lady from a salver, two miles off. See how distance seems to set off respect ! And here the same lady, or another, (for likeness is identity on teacups,) is stepping into a little fairy boat, moored on the hither side of this calm garden river, with a dainty mincing foot, which in a right angle of incidence (as angles go in our world) must infallibly land her in the midst of a flowery mead a furlong off on the other side of the same strange stream...
Page 215 - I wish the good old times would come again," she said, " when we were not quite so rich. I do not mean, that I want to be poor ; but there was a middle state" — so she was pleased to ramble on, — " in which I am sure we were a great deal happier. A purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money enough and to spare. Formerly it used to be a triumph. When we coveted a cheap luxury...