The Living Age, Volumul 121E. Littell & Company, 1874 |
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... round it stuck , Appeared ; he sniffed his approbation , And trifled with a Bombay duck . The rice was dried to pure perfection ; He filled his mouth - a silence fell Then starting , with an interjection , Which I am too polite to tell ...
... round it stuck , Appeared ; he sniffed his approbation , And trifled with a Bombay duck . The rice was dried to pure perfection ; He filled his mouth - a silence fell Then starting , with an interjection , Which I am too polite to tell ...
Pagina 19
... round inside its body to face the other way . Reversals of this kind , strange de- formities , tremendous paralyses , are often seen to be inflicted by trade upon edifices —either individual or in the aggregate as streets and towns ...
... round inside its body to face the other way . Reversals of this kind , strange de- formities , tremendous paralyses , are often seen to be inflicted by trade upon edifices —either individual or in the aggregate as streets and towns ...
Pagina 20
... round , have tried him . Jane Perkins worked at him for two months like a slave , and the two Miss Taylors spent a year upon him , and he cost Farmer Ives's daughter nights of tears and twenty pounds - worth of new clothes ; but Lord ...
... round , have tried him . Jane Perkins worked at him for two months like a slave , and the two Miss Taylors spent a year upon him , and he cost Farmer Ives's daughter nights of tears and twenty pounds - worth of new clothes ; but Lord ...
Pagina 21
... round , or , with the air of a privileged person , taking up one of the half sovereigns lying before her , and ad- miringly surveying it as a work of art merely , strictly preventing her counte- nance from expressing any wish to pos ...
... round , or , with the air of a privileged person , taking up one of the half sovereigns lying before her , and ad- miringly surveying it as a work of art merely , strictly preventing her counte- nance from expressing any wish to pos ...
Pagina 60
... round the table , and an embroidered canopy covered the whole . At one end of the temple , six more gilt gods each occupied his niche , dressed in yellow coats , and with the same offerings ; whilst a lamp was kept constantly burning ...
... round the table , and an embroidered canopy covered the whole . At one end of the temple , six more gilt gods each occupied his niche , dressed in yellow coats , and with the same offerings ; whilst a lamp was kept constantly burning ...
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Pagina 397 - For so is the will of God that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
Pagina 176 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Pagina 178 - What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty, And to be lord of all the works of nature! To...
Pagina 442 - Ye have the account Of my performance : what remains, ye gods ! But up, and enter now into full bliss ?" So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear ; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn...
Pagina 178 - The poetry of earth is ceasing never : On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills The cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems, to one in drowsiness half lost, The grasshopper's among some grassy hills.
Pagina 174 - The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, Are governed with goodly modesty That suffers not one look to glance away, 'Which may let in a little thought unsound.
Pagina 548 - Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
Pagina 235 - But evil on itself shall back recoil, And mix no more with goodness, when at last, Gathered like scum, and settled to itself, It shall be in eternal restless change Self-fed and self-consumed. If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
Pagina 175 - Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the fox-glove bell. But though I'll gladly trace these scenes with thee, Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind, Whose words are images of thoughts refined, Is my soul's pleasure ; and it sure must be Almost the highest bliss of human-kind, When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee.
Pagina 100 - There is something in the poetical Arcadia so remote from known reality and speculative possibility, that we can never support its representation through a long work. A pastoral of an hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of sheep and goats, and myrtle bowers, and purling rivulets, through five acts? Such scenes please barbarians in the dawn of literature, and children in the dawn of life ; but will be for the most part thrown away, as men grow wise, and nations grow learned.