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Page xiii
... turn to the words Laurel and Prunes , show the explanations to your sisters and Mrs. Dilk [ e ] and without more ado let them send me the cups , Basket and Books they trifled and put off and off while I was in Town . Ask them what they ...
... turn to the words Laurel and Prunes , show the explanations to your sisters and Mrs. Dilk [ e ] and without more ado let them send me the cups , Basket and Books they trifled and put off and off while I was in Town . Ask them what they ...
Page xv
... turn to some innocent jocularity - the Bow cannot always be bent nor the gun always loaded , if you ever let it off -and the life of man is like a great Mountain - his breath is like a Shrewsbury cake - he comes into the world like a ...
... turn to some innocent jocularity - the Bow cannot always be bent nor the gun always loaded , if you ever let it off -and the life of man is like a great Mountain - his breath is like a Shrewsbury cake - he comes into the world like a ...
Page xvi
... turn to the sea - shore . It may be mentioned that Woodhouse particularizes the date of this letter No. XII by the evidence of the post - mark , namely the 15th of September 1817. The letter to Rey- nolds numbered XIII belongs to the ...
... turn to the sea - shore . It may be mentioned that Woodhouse particularizes the date of this letter No. XII by the evidence of the post - mark , namely the 15th of September 1817. The letter to Rey- nolds numbered XIII belongs to the ...
Page xxxiv
... turning this third one in your mind -and would do so with finger and thumb only you had taken to snuff . I have met with a brace or twain of little Long - heads - not a bit o ' the German . All in the neatest little dresses , and ...
... turning this third one in your mind -and would do so with finger and thumb only you had taken to snuff . I have met with a brace or twain of little Long - heads - not a bit o ' the German . All in the neatest little dresses , and ...
Page xli
... turn from Devonshire , at page 237 , stands this sentence : Severn has had a narrow escape of his Life from a Typhous fever : he is now gaining strength . And between the two paragraphs at page 238 there is another omitted passage ...
... turn from Devonshire , at page 237 , stands this sentence : Severn has had a narrow escape of his Life from a Typhous fever : he is now gaining strength . And between the two paragraphs at page 238 there is another omitted passage ...
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Page 292 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Page 22 - Of flutes and soft recorders; such as raised To highth of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle, and instead of rage Deliberate valour breathed, firm and unmoved With dread of death to flight or foul retreat; Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage, With solemn touches, troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds.
Page 20 - Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes, That witnessed huge affliction and dismay, Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate. At once, as far as Angels...
Page 28 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian Bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Page 20 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe...
Page 23 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 23 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven •, The roof was fretted gold.
Page 23 - The ascending pile Stood fixed her stately highth; and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds discover, wide Within, her ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement: from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
Page 22 - The imperial ensign; which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind...
Page 91 - The Imagination may be compared to Adam's dream: he awoke and found it Truth. I am more zealous in this affair, because I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for Truth by consecutive reasoning, and yet it must be so.