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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 20
Page 10
... sure inseparable Treasure ; nor do I feel it any burden or incumbrance unto me at all ! " There , in the closing phrase , spoke the post - Elizabethan pluck . Marry , any man does well since , who can describe the aggregated agonies of ...
... sure inseparable Treasure ; nor do I feel it any burden or incumbrance unto me at all ! " There , in the closing phrase , spoke the post - Elizabethan pluck . Marry , any man does well since , who can describe the aggregated agonies of ...
Page 17
... sure that it is she who gives him all , or even most , of his comfort . It is only the poetic fashion to say so . It is at least doubtful if Nature be not , in her last exquisiteness , for the man already independent of her . There are ...
... sure that it is she who gives him all , or even most , of his comfort . It is only the poetic fashion to say so . It is at least doubtful if Nature be not , in her last exquisiteness , for the man already independent of her . There are ...
Page 25
... sure only of this : that presently we shall indeed find ourselves inside sycamore planks , so that all the dryads in their boles , watching our very best approximation to their coveted estate , shall smile to see . But thereafter , at ...
... sure only of this : that presently we shall indeed find ourselves inside sycamore planks , so that all the dryads in their boles , watching our very best approximation to their coveted estate , shall smile to see . But thereafter , at ...
Page 34
... legends of the North , will be bold enough to set My Lodging is on the Cold Ground in full song , on his genealogical tree ? James the First and Charles the First will be sure to show up there , and 34 ON THE ETHICS OF DESCENT.
... legends of the North , will be bold enough to set My Lodging is on the Cold Ground in full song , on his genealogical tree ? James the First and Charles the First will be sure to show up there , and 34 ON THE ETHICS OF DESCENT.
Page 35
... sure to show up there , and so will a number of other Britons not especially germane to the matter . This is how we forge pedigrees , in our blunt literal way , skipping over the vital forces , and laboriously reckoning the mediums ...
... sure to show up there , and so will a number of other Britons not especially germane to the matter . This is how we forge pedigrees , in our blunt literal way , skipping over the vital forces , and laboriously reckoning the mediums ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admired ancholy Anne Boleyn beautiful better century cern Charles Lamb Charles the Second charm child CLAY dark dear delight Duchess Duke Duke of York Earl Empedocles England eternal eyes faces Gallery genius Gentleman grace grave hand hangs happy head hear heart Heaven Henry hero Holbein honor human humor immortal indifferent innocent James Howell King Charles King's lady laughed less live London look Lord Majesty Master ment mind moral natural Nell Gwynne ness never night noble once passed perfect person pity play poet poor Pope Joan portrait Prince Queen Rhoda Roger North Roundhead royal saints sense Sidney smile sort soul spirit stand strange Stuart suck eggs sure sweet thee thing thou thought tion touch Tyburn tree uncon unto walk WETHERELL Whitehall wild William Hazlitt word young
Popular passages
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...