Works, Volumul 2Pickering, 1835 |
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Pagina 13
... imagine my taste was any rule for yours ; for which reason my letters are shorter and less frequent than they would be , had I any materials but myself to entertain you with . Love and brown sugar must be a poor regale for one of your ...
... imagine my taste was any rule for yours ; for which reason my letters are shorter and less frequent than they would be , had I any materials but myself to entertain you with . Love and brown sugar must be a poor regale for one of your ...
Pagina 22
... imagine , in no very agreeable situa- tion ; for my part I am under the misfortune of having nothing to do , but it is a misfortune which , thank my stars , I can pretty well bear . You are * He lived nine years longer , and died at the ...
... imagine , in no very agreeable situa- tion ; for my part I am under the misfortune of having nothing to do , but it is a misfortune which , thank my stars , I can pretty well bear . You are * He lived nine years longer , and died at the ...
Pagina 23
... imagine , however , you will rather choose to converse with the living dead , that adorn the walls of your apart- ments , than with the dead living that deck the middles of them ; and prefer a picture of still life to the realities of a ...
... imagine , however , you will rather choose to converse with the living dead , that adorn the walls of your apart- ments , than with the dead living that deck the middles of them ; and prefer a picture of still life to the realities of a ...
Pagina 24
... imagine how miserably my time passes away . My health , and nerves , and spirits are , thank my stars , the very worst , I think in Oxford . Four - and - twenty hours of pure unalloyed health together , are as unknown to me as the ...
... imagine how miserably my time passes away . My health , and nerves , and spirits are , thank my stars , the very worst , I think in Oxford . Four - and - twenty hours of pure unalloyed health together , are as unknown to me as the ...
Pagina 36
... imagine , will be most likely either to inform or amuse the reader . The multiplicity of accounts , published , both before and after the time when these letters were written , of those very places which Mr. Gray describes , will ...
... imagine , will be most likely either to inform or amuse the reader . The multiplicity of accounts , published , both before and after the time when these letters were written , of those very places which Mr. Gray describes , will ...
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Pagina lv - There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found; The red-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.
Pagina c - And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention.
Pagina lxxi - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Pagina 147 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Pagina 3 - It is very possible that two and two make four, but I would not give four farthings to demonstrate this ever so clearly ; and if these be the profits of life, give me the amusements of it.
Pagina cviii - The Prospect of Eton College suggests nothing to Gray, which every beholder does not equally think and feel. His supplication to father Thames, to tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball, is useless and puerile. Father Thames has no better means of knowing than himself. His epithet buxom health is not elegant; he seems not to understand the word.
Pagina cii - It is indisputably evident that a great part of every man's life must be employed in collecting materials for the exercise of genius. Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory...
Pagina 141 - I admire in him above all this, is his detestation of tyranny, and the high spirit of liberty that every now and then breaks out, as it were, whether he would or no. I remember a sentence in his Agricola that (concise as it is) I always admired for saying much in a little compass. He speaks of Domitian, who upon seeing the last will of that general, where he had made him coheir with his wife and daughter, " Satis constabat laetatum eum, velut honore, judicioque: tam caeca et corrupta mens assiduis...
Pagina lv - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. 'Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove; Now drooping, woful-wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love.
Pagina cxvii - When you have seen one of my days, you have seen a whole year of my life ; they go round and round like the blind horse in the mill, only he has the satisfaction of fancying he makes a progress and gets some ground ; my eyes are open enough to see the same dull prospect, and to know that, having made four-and-twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was.