The Pilgrims of the Thames: In Search of the NationalW. Strange, 1838 - 375 pàgines |
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Pàgina ii
... doubts ! Satire a bitter weapon ; and men , in general , afraid of being laughed at . A hint or two respecting the dangers of blind confidence ; or persons having too good an opinion of their own sagacity . Travellers see strange things ...
... doubts ! Satire a bitter weapon ; and men , in general , afraid of being laughed at . A hint or two respecting the dangers of blind confidence ; or persons having too good an opinion of their own sagacity . Travellers see strange things ...
Pàgina iv
... doubt . But mystery is effective ; or the characters of Marplot and Paul Pry , would become dead letters , and be put upon the shelf . " O the joys of angling ' Overboard a fishing party - a bite ; a Dog fish ! he went ! A splashing ...
... doubt . But mystery is effective ; or the characters of Marplot and Paul Pry , would become dead letters , and be put upon the shelf . " O the joys of angling ' Overboard a fishing party - a bite ; a Dog fish ! he went ! A splashing ...
Pàgina 18
... doubt but Beau Brummel and the Baronet Sir Lumley Skeffington , in their zenith , would have had a decided majority in their favour , as to the " cut , good taste , and prime fit " of their clothes . 6 6 " a But in his meridian , " the ...
... doubt but Beau Brummel and the Baronet Sir Lumley Skeffington , in their zenith , would have had a decided majority in their favour , as to the " cut , good taste , and prime fit " of their clothes . 6 6 " a But in his meridian , " the ...
Pàgina 26
... doubt . But , nevertheless , I like to tell my customers what they are going to get for their money . I have , sir , a character to lose : -My name is Jack , the publisher , but more familiarly known and called the walking index ; or ...
... doubt . But , nevertheless , I like to tell my customers what they are going to get for their money . I have , sir , a character to lose : -My name is Jack , the publisher , but more familiarly known and called the walking index ; or ...
Pàgina 28
... doubt but you have heard of a celebrated broken - down man of fortune , who was so reduced in a pecuniary point of view - as to assume the character of Jeremy Diddler ' off the stage ; and who made it his boast that he had borrowed in ...
... doubt but you have heard of a celebrated broken - down man of fortune , who was so reduced in a pecuniary point of view - as to assume the character of Jeremy Diddler ' off the stage ; and who made it his boast that he had borrowed in ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 275 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity : Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind...
Pàgina 62 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?
Pàgina 296 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here ; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last.
Pàgina 130 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to LIBERTY, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle or...
Pàgina 329 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Pàgina 195 - twere the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape, and the wave Of woods and cornfields, and the abodes of men Scattered at intervals, and wreathing smoke Arising from such rustic roofs...
Pàgina 249 - THY forests, Windsor ! and thy green retreats, At once the Monarch's and the Muse's seats, Invite my lays.
Pàgina 113 - and if there were I'm grown so deaf I could not hear." " Nay, then," the spectre stern rejoined, These are unjustifiable yearnings: If you are lame, and deaf, and blind, You've had your three sufficient warnings. So come along — no more we'll part.
Pàgina 296 - Oh ! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame ? I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart, I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
Pàgina 345 - His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more.