Literary curiosities and eccentricities, in prose and verse, ed. by W.A. Clouston |
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... look of hers is able to put all face physic out of countenance . She knows a fair look is but a dumb orator to commend virtue , therefore minds it not . All her ex- cellencies stand in her so silently , as if they had stolen upon her ...
... look of hers is able to put all face physic out of countenance . She knows a fair look is but a dumb orator to commend virtue , therefore minds it not . All her ex- cellencies stand in her so silently , as if they had stolen upon her ...
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... look at the flunkies ! -Noctes Ambrosianæ . —Russell's Book of Authors . 66 HOGARTH AS A SATIRIST . I INCLUDE the great name of Hogarth among our satirists , upon the strength of Charles Lamb's text , in his perfectly admirable essay ...
... look at the flunkies ! -Noctes Ambrosianæ . —Russell's Book of Authors . 66 HOGARTH AS A SATIRIST . I INCLUDE the great name of Hogarth among our satirists , upon the strength of Charles Lamb's text , in his perfectly admirable essay ...
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... look rather wistfully towards the window , musing upon these people . Were any of them to enter , I think I should not be very much frightened . Dear old friends , what pleasant hours I have had with them ! We do not see each other very ...
... look rather wistfully towards the window , musing upon these people . Were any of them to enter , I think I should not be very much frightened . Dear old friends , what pleasant hours I have had with them ! We do not see each other very ...
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... look again . " As a novelist , his " Vicar of Wakefield " has charmed all Europe . What reader is there in the civilized world who is not the better for the story of the washes which the worthy Dr. Primrose demolished so deli- berately ...
... look again . " As a novelist , his " Vicar of Wakefield " has charmed all Europe . What reader is there in the civilized world who is not the better for the story of the washes which the worthy Dr. Primrose demolished so deli- berately ...
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... look often into their glass , to ascertain if they were good- looking , that , if they were so , they might strive to make their mental attainments correspond ; and if they were not so , then that they might endeavour by the superior ...
... look often into their glass , to ascertain if they were good- looking , that , if they were so , they might strive to make their mental attainments correspond ; and if they were not so , then that they might endeavour by the superior ...
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Page 195 - Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 196 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Page 128 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 195 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Page 45 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never done With his delights ; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Page 158 - Go, lovely Rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows When I resemble her to thee How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Page 66 - Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will burn.
Page 195 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy...
Page 196 - Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
Page 154 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates. And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.