Elia, Volume 1Edward Moxon, 1836 |
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... human frailty - an act of inattention on the part of some of the auditory - or a trait of affectation , or worse , vain - glory , on that of the preacher - puts us by our best thoughts , dishar- monising the place and the occasion . But ...
... human frailty - an act of inattention on the part of some of the auditory - or a trait of affectation , or worse , vain - glory , on that of the preacher - puts us by our best thoughts , dishar- monising the place and the occasion . But ...
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... human victim at this rate . The burnt ashes of a man weigh more in their proportion . Had I seen these brick - and - mortar knaves at their process of destruction , at the plucking of every pannel I should have felt the varlets at my ...
... human victim at this rate . The burnt ashes of a man weigh more in their proportion . Had I seen these brick - and - mortar knaves at their process of destruction , at the plucking of every pannel I should have felt the varlets at my ...
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... human infirmities and passions . A sort of melancholy grandeur in- vested him . From some inexplicable doom I fan- cied him obliged to go about in an eternal suit of mourning ; a captive - a stately being , let out of the Tower on ...
... human infirmities and passions . A sort of melancholy grandeur in- vested him . From some inexplicable doom I fan- cied him obliged to go about in an eternal suit of mourning ; a captive - a stately being , let out of the Tower on ...
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... human nature , to feel in ourselves , or to contemplate in another , is , perhaps , cowardice . To see a coward done to the life upon a stage would produce anything but mirth . Yet we most of us remember Jack Ban- nister's cowards ...
... human nature , to feel in ourselves , or to contemplate in another , is , perhaps , cowardice . To see a coward done to the life upon a stage would produce anything but mirth . Yet we most of us remember Jack Ban- nister's cowards ...
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... human breasts steps forth - a miser . Elliston was more of a piece . Did he play Ran- ger ? and did Ranger fill the general bosom of the town with satisfaction ? why should he not be Ran → ger , and diffuse the same cordial ...
... human breasts steps forth - a miser . Elliston was more of a piece . Did he play Ran- ger ? and did Ranger fill the general bosom of the town with satisfaction ? why should he not be Ran → ger , and diffuse the same cordial ...
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Page 47 - But where a book is at once both good and rare — where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine...
Page 174 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
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 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 142 - Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low!
Page 142 - 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: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
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 11 - He remembereth birth-days, and professeth he is fortunate to have stumbled upon one. He declareth against fish, the turbot being small, yet suffereth himself to be importuned into a slice against his first resolution. He sticketh by the port, yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are fearful of being too obsequious, or not civil enough to him. The guests think
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.