The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 |
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Pàgina 11
... once splendid and pleasing , and is elevated with grandeur of language worthy of the first of Roman poets ; but I am not able to reconcile myself to the disproportion between the performance and the occasion that produced it ; that the ...
... once splendid and pleasing , and is elevated with grandeur of language worthy of the first of Roman poets ; but I am not able to reconcile myself to the disproportion between the performance and the occasion that produced it ; that the ...
Pàgina 19
... once Thou call'st me up at midnight , to fetch dew From the still - vex'd Bermudas . Ariel , being one of those elves or spirits , ' whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms , and who rejoice to listen to the solemn curfew ; ' by ...
... once Thou call'st me up at midnight , to fetch dew From the still - vex'd Bermudas . Ariel , being one of those elves or spirits , ' whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms , and who rejoice to listen to the solemn curfew ; ' by ...
Pàgina 28
... once the utmost of his ambition , and of renewing that pursuit which alone had made him happy , such was the pungency of his regret , that in the despair of recovering the money which he knew had produced nothing but riot , disease ...
... once the utmost of his ambition , and of renewing that pursuit which alone had made him happy , such was the pungency of his regret , that in the despair of recovering the money which he knew had produced nothing but riot , disease ...
Pàgina 36
... once struck with a sense of his good fortune ; and was so affected by a retrospect of his danger , that he could scarce be- lieve it to be past . How providential , ' said he , ' was it , that I did not stay to drink another dish of tea ...
... once struck with a sense of his good fortune ; and was so affected by a retrospect of his danger , that he could scarce be- lieve it to be past . How providential , ' said he , ' was it , that I did not stay to drink another dish of tea ...
Pàgina 42
... once highly poetical , and exactly suited to the wildness of the speaker : ter ; Pray you tread softly , that the blind mole may not Hear a footfall.— I always lament that our author has not preserved this fierce and implacable spirit ...
... once highly poetical , and exactly suited to the wildness of the speaker : ter ; Pray you tread softly , that the blind mole may not Hear a footfall.— I always lament that our author has not preserved this fierce and implacable spirit ...
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