Patrins: To which is Added An Inquirendo Into the Wit & Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the SecondCopeland and Day, 1897 - 334 pages |
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... hours a day . Ah , lit- tle Vita Silvestris ! Blamelessly may we feel that you have found the way , and that we have missed it , growing gray at the silly desk , and sure only of this : that presently we shall indeed find ourselves ...
... hours a day . Ah , lit- tle Vita Silvestris ! Blamelessly may we feel that you have found the way , and that we have missed it , growing gray at the silly desk , and sure only of this : that presently we shall indeed find ourselves ...
Page 43
... hour ; so that his first and last impressions are fain to spring from the spectacle of these firm - chinned soldierly Howards , thin and bright as their own swords , with the conscious look of gentlemen among cads . From the dazzle of ...
... hour ; so that his first and last impressions are fain to spring from the spectacle of these firm - chinned soldierly Howards , thin and bright as their own swords , with the conscious look of gentlemen among cads . From the dazzle of ...
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... , in 1543 , " should have died hereafter . " Hunger for that bygone genius is in your thought there : O for an hour of Hans Ho . pinxit ! ON THE DELIGHTS OF AN PERE INCOGNITO ERFECT happiness , 1890 . 60 THE TUDOR EXHIBITION.
... , in 1543 , " should have died hereafter . " Hunger for that bygone genius is in your thought there : O for an hour of Hans Ho . pinxit ! ON THE DELIGHTS OF AN PERE INCOGNITO ERFECT happiness , 1890 . 60 THE TUDOR EXHIBITION.
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... : it induces and maintains dignity . Most of us who suffer keenly from the intolerable burden of self , are grateful to have our fits of sanity by the hour or the week , when we may eat lotos and fern - seed , and die 5 OF AN INCOGNITO 65.
... : it induces and maintains dignity . Most of us who suffer keenly from the intolerable burden of self , are grateful to have our fits of sanity by the hour or the week , when we may eat lotos and fern - seed , and die 5 OF AN INCOGNITO 65.
Page 76
... hours on the flounce of her gown , eyeing you , and calumniating you somewhat by his vicarious groans and sighs . But ever after , Pup admits the recitation of tragic selections as one human folly more . He is so big and so ...
... hours on the flounce of her gown , eyeing you , and calumniating you somewhat by his vicarious groans and sighs . But ever after , Pup admits the recitation of tragic selections as one human folly more . He is so big and so ...
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Page 7 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn...
Page 15 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Page 176 - Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose : Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close. Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright ! Lay thy bow of pearl apart, And thy crystal shining quiver ; Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever : Thou that mak'st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright ! Cynthia's JRevels.
Page 66 - ... lose our importunate, tormenting, everlasting personal identity in the elements of nature, and become the creature of the moment, clear of all ties— to hold to the universe only by a dish of sweetbreads, and to owe nothing but the score of the evening — and no longer seeking for applause and meeting with contempt, to be known by no other title than the Gentleman in the parlour...
Page 31 - For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 306 - We must call upon you again for a Black Dog, between a Greyhound and a Spaniel, no white about him, onely a streak on his Brest, and Tayl a little bobbed. It is His Majesties own Dog, and doubtless was stoln, for the Dog was not born nor bred in England, and would never forsake his Master. Whosoever findes him may acquaint any at Whitehal, for the Dog was better known at Court than those who stole him. Will they never leave robbing His Majesty? must he not keep a Dog...
Page 4 - For grammar it might have, but it needs it not ; being so easy in itself, and so void of those cumbersome differences of cases, genders, moods, and tenses, which, I think, was a piece of the Tower of Babylon's curse, that a man should be put to school to learn his mother-tongue. But for the uttering sweetly and properly the conceits of the mind, which is the end of speech, that hath it equally with any other tongue in the world...
Page 234 - What then are the situations, from the representation of which, though accurate, no poetical enjoyment can be derived ? They are those in which the suffering finds no vent in action ; in which a continuous state of mental distress is prolonged, unrelieved by incident, hope, or resistance ; in which there is everything to be endured, nothing to be done. In such situations there is inevitably something morbid, in the description of them something monotonous. When they occur in actual life, they are...
Page 313 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Page 66 - Oh ! it is great to shake off the trammels of the world and of public opinion — to lose our importunate, tormenting, everlasting personal identity in the elements of nature, and become the creature of the moment, clear of all ties— to hold to the universe only by a dish of sweetbreads, and to owe nothing but the score of the evening — and no longer seeking for applause and meeting with contempt, to be known by no other title than the Gentleman in the...