The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and The last essays of EliaMethuen & Company, 1903 |
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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and The last essays of Elia Charles Lamb Visualització completa - 1903 |
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and The last essays of Elia Charles Lamb,Mary Lamb Visualització completa - 1903 |
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Pàgina 208 - passions. With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What I 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 ; I read it in thy looks ; thy
Pàgina 84 - gardner drew, Of flowers and herbs, this dial new ! Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run : > And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckon'd, but with herbs and flowers
Pàgina 93 - A table richly spread in regal mode. With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour; beasts of chase, or fowl of game. In pastry built, or from the spit, or boiled, Gris-amber-steamed ; all fish from sea or shore, Freshet or purling brook, for which was drained Pontus, and Lucrine bay, and Afric coast.
Pàgina 387 - it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks.
Pàgina 358 - King. O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain ; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point. "3 Henry VI.,
Pàgina 303 - Why, sir, you know no house nor no such maid, Nor no such men as you have reckon'd up. As Stephen Sly and old John Naps of Greece And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernel! And twenty more such names and men as these Which never were nor no man ever saw. Induction,
Pàgina 274 - Mai. Come, Sir, you peevishly threw it to her ; and her will is, it should be so returned. If it be worth stooping for, there it lies in your eye ; if not, be it his that finds it. 1 Viola. She took the ring from me ; I'll none of it.
Pàgina 122 - Unlike to mankind's mixed characters, a bundle of virtues and vices, inexplicably intertwisted, and not to be unravelled without hazard, he is—good throughout. No part of him is better or worse than another. He helpeth, as far as his little means extend, all around. He is the least envious of banquets. He is all neighbours
Pàgina 32 - a wave of genuine Helicon, your only Spa for these hypochondries—And now another cup of the generous ! and a merry New Year, and many of them, to you all, my masters ! MRS. BATTLE'S OPINIONS ON WHIST. " A CLEAR fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
Pàgina 142 - world. When we are among them, we are amongst a chaotic people. We are not to judge them by our usages. No reverend institutions are insulted by their proceedings,—for they have none among them. No peace of families is violated,—for no family ties exist among them. No purity of the marriage bed