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Pàgina 156 - 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. Then the
Pàgina 128 - 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 ? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case; To me, that feel the like, thy state descries I read it in thy looks; thy
Pàgina 17 - that your guests take him for one. He is asked to make one at the whist table ; refuseth on the score of poverty, and—resents being left out. When the company break up, he proffereth to go for a coach— and lets the servant go. He recollects your grandfather ; and will thrust in some mean and quite
Pàgina 46 - Winter evenings—the world shut out—with less of ceremony the gentle Shakspeare enters. At such a season, the Tempest, or his own Winter's Tale— Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents, are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the
Pàgina li - were, to confess a truth, in the world's eye a ragged regiment. He found them floating on the surface of society ; and the colour, or something else in the weed, pleased him. The burs stuck to him ; but they were good and loving burs for all that.
Pàgina 22 - looked up at the Luke, and, like Satan, "knew his mounted sign—and fled." A letter on his father's table the next morning, announced that he had accepted a commission in a regiment about to embark for Portugal. He was among the first who perished before the walls of St. Sebastian.
Pàgina 119 - AMICUS REDIVIVUS Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your loved Lycidas? 1DO not know when I have experienced a stranger sensation, than on seeing my old friend GD, who had been paying me a morning visit a few Sundays back, at my cottage at Islington, upon taking leave, instead of turning down the
Pàgina 20 - made us more obnoxious to observation in the blue clothes, because I would not thread the alleys and blind ways of the town with him to elude notice, when we have been out together on a holiday in the streets of this sneering and prying metropolis. W went, sore with
Pàgina xxv - Coleridge ! it may convince you of my regards for you when I tell you my head ran on you in my madness, as much almost as on another person, who I am inclined to think was the more immediate cause of my temporary frenzy.
Pàgina 14 - POOR RELATIONS A POOR Relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature, — a piece of impertinent correspondency,—an odious approximation,—a haunting conscience,—a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of your prosperity,—an unwelcome remembrancer,—a perpetually recurring mortification, —a drain on your purse,—a more intolerable dun upon your pride,—a drawback upon success,—a rebuke to your rising,—a stain in your