Desultoria: The Recovered Mss. of an EccentricBaker and Scribner, 1850 - 220 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... close it for the world . The work was Bacon , and was open at the essay on Death . On the face of this book I afterwards found the last piece of his manu- script , written just previous to his commission of suicide . The old man says ...
... close it for the world . The work was Bacon , and was open at the essay on Death . On the face of this book I afterwards found the last piece of his manu- script , written just previous to his commission of suicide . The old man says ...
Pàgina 12
... close these thoughts , I must say , that having failed in everything I have undertaken of a laudable character , this last , the keeping an account of my thoughts and feelings I shall undertake - but I prophesy that I am writing the ...
... close these thoughts , I must say , that having failed in everything I have undertaken of a laudable character , this last , the keeping an account of my thoughts and feelings I shall undertake - but I prophesy that I am writing the ...
Pàgina 72
... especially in a tragedy well- performed , and one like Hamlet especially - and those emotions that the heart gives assent to , the face will discover to a close and habitual observer -- then I feel a deep interest in 72 DESULTORIA .
... especially in a tragedy well- performed , and one like Hamlet especially - and those emotions that the heart gives assent to , the face will discover to a close and habitual observer -- then I feel a deep interest in 72 DESULTORIA .
Pàgina 103
... close to my anxious search where it stealthily creeps from under the shelving rock . And give me the sight of the mountains that vary as you gaze on them through every hour of the day -to those poor sea - attached beings , who have ...
... close to my anxious search where it stealthily creeps from under the shelving rock . And give me the sight of the mountains that vary as you gaze on them through every hour of the day -to those poor sea - attached beings , who have ...
Pàgina 105
... close together , as the timid children huddle closer and closer round the winter fire , and look about you as they do , and hearken suspiciously to the wind through the door , while the nurse relates some terrible ghost story , at which ...
... close together , as the timid children huddle closer and closer round the winter fire , and look about you as they do , and hearken suspiciously to the wind through the door , while the nurse relates some terrible ghost story , at which ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
actions affection all-consuming fire beautiful become better bosom calm child choly companion conversation creature dear dear boy death desire devoted dream endeavor ennui Epicurean esteem exist expression face farewell father fear feelings folly foolish forget gaze give gone grave Hamlet happy happy days harpies hate heart hope horse human humbugs idea imagine indifferent intel kind knew lady Laertes lence lone streets look melan melancholy melon mental mind monomania mother mountains nature Nero never night noble observed Ophelia painful passion perhaps persons physician pleasant pleasure Polonius poor possessed pursuits quiet regard scene seemed sion sleep smile society sorrow sought soul speak spirit strange sweet sycophant tell things thou thought tion to-day told unhappy Virgil wish woman words wretch write young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 78 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Pàgina 80 - No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp ; And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning.
Pàgina 100 - OH, talk not to me of a name great in story ; The days of our youth are the days of our glory ; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.
Pàgina 76 - That youth and observation copied there ; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain...
Pàgina 76 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And.
Pàgina 80 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Pàgina 75 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Pàgina 61 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war...
Pàgina 75 - O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Pàgina 78 - What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.