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Page vi
... so meagre , that I gave them two names , Evelyn and Tremaine , but still left them without characters or story . This was very little less bald ; so I added a sort of charac- ter , and by degrees a sort of story , vi PREFACE .
... so meagre , that I gave them two names , Evelyn and Tremaine , but still left them without characters or story . This was very little less bald ; so I added a sort of charac- ter , and by degrees a sort of story , vi PREFACE .
Page xii
... gave it the shape of a Journal , or rather Memoir , which he kept of the outset of his life , when he was a mere tyro to what he afterwards became . This , in my quality of executor , having come into my hands , I must own it sadly ...
... gave it the shape of a Journal , or rather Memoir , which he kept of the outset of his life , when he was a mere tyro to what he afterwards became . This , in my quality of executor , having come into my hands , I must own it sadly ...
Page xiv
... gave it the shape of a Journal , or rather Memoir , which he kept of the outset of his life , when he was a mere tyro to what he afterwards became . This , in my quality of executor , having come into my hands , I must own it sadly ...
... gave it the shape of a Journal , or rather Memoir , which he kept of the outset of his life , when he was a mere tyro to what he afterwards became . This , in my quality of executor , having come into my hands , I must own it sadly ...
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... gave it that " air de noblesse , " which charmed the ambitious secretary into an ex- clamation , " Comment Diable , c'est un bijou que cette maison , outre l'air de noblesse que donnent ces quatre pavillons . " In truth , when I looked ...
... gave it that " air de noblesse , " which charmed the ambitious secretary into an ex- clamation , " Comment Diable , c'est un bijou que cette maison , outre l'air de noblesse que donnent ces quatre pavillons . " In truth , when I looked ...
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... gave an air of almost elegance to the occupation . It certainly made a cheerful scene , for which I had in some measure been prepared a few yards off , by songs and gay laughs which reached the ear . " At least , " said I to myself ...
... gave an air of almost elegance to the occupation . It certainly made a cheerful scene , for which I had in some measure been prepared a few yards off , by songs and gay laughs which reached the ear . " At least , " said I to myself ...
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Page 39 - I thought that all things had been savage here ; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.
Page 82 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture and find an agreeable companion in a statue.
Page 332 - They are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep : their soul melteth away because of the trouble.
Page 118 - So proud, so grand; of that stupendous air, Soft and agreeable come never there. Greatness with Timon dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdignag before your thought. To compass this, his building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a down...
Page 314 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 118 - We find our tenets just the same at last. Both fairly owning Riches, in effect, No grace of Heaven or token of th' elect; Given to the fool, the mad, the vain, the evil, To Ward, to Waters, Chartres, and the devil.
Page 246 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 55 - I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality ; but I look upon all that has passed as one of those romantic dreams which opium commonly occasions ; and I do by no means desire to repeat the nauseous dose, for the sake of the fugitive dream.
Page 54 - I have seen,' says this man of the world, " the silly rounds of business and pleasure, and have done with them all. I have enjoyed all the pleasures of the world, and consequently know their futility, and do not regret their loss. I appraise them at their real value, which is in truth very low; whereas those who have not experienced always over-rate them.
Page 19 - ... tangled wood we fill them with what shapes we please, with ravenous beasts, with caverns vast, and drear enchantments, so in our ignorance of the world about us, we make gods or devils of the first object we see, and set no bounds to the wilful suggestions of our hopes and fears.