Essays and TalesCassell, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... conversation of ordinary women very much cherishes this natural weakness of being taken with outside and appearance . Talk of a new - married couple , and you immediately hear whether they keep their coach and six , or eat in plate ...
... conversation of ordinary women very much cherishes this natural weakness of being taken with outside and appearance . Talk of a new - married couple , and you immediately hear whether they keep their coach and six , or eat in plate ...
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... conversation is in danger of every embroidered coat that comes in her way . A pair of fringed gloves may be her ruin . In a word , lace and ribands , silver and gold galloons , with the like glitter ing gewgaws , are so many lures to ...
... conversation is in danger of every embroidered coat that comes in her way . A pair of fringed gloves may be her ruin . In a word , lace and ribands , silver and gold galloons , with the like glitter ing gewgaws , are so many lures to ...
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... conversation , he told me that he generally talked in the Paranomasia , that he sometimes gave in to the Plocé , but that in his humble opinion he shone most in the Antanaclasis . I must not here omit that a famous university of this ...
... conversation , he told me that he generally talked in the Paranomasia , that he sometimes gave in to the Plocé , but that in his humble opinion he shone most in the Antanaclasis . I must not here omit that a famous university of this ...
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... conversation with men of judgment , they soon forsake them . " I must not dismiss this subject without observing that , as Mr. Locke , in the passage above - mentioned , has discovered the most fruitful source of wit , so there is ...
... conversation with men of judgment , they soon forsake them . " I must not dismiss this subject without observing that , as Mr. Locke , in the passage above - mentioned , has discovered the most fruitful source of wit , so there is ...
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... conversation with these invisible companions , I dis- covered in the centre of a very dark grove a monstrous fabric built after the Gothic manner , and covered with innumerable devices in that barbarous kind of sculpture . I immediately ...
... conversation with these invisible companions , I dis- covered in the centre of a very dark grove a monstrous fabric built after the Gothic manner , and covered with innumerable devices in that barbarous kind of sculpture . I immediately ...
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Page 155 - ... insomuch that I could discover nothing in it ; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and...
Page 152 - But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Page 154 - I here fetched a deep sigh; Alas, said I, man was made in vain! How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect; Look no more...
Page 155 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Page 152 - ... is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now, said he, this sea that is thus bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me...
Page 181 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 191 - Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 153 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. " The genius, seeing me indulge myself on this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. 'Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, 'and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up, 'What...
Page 112 - With that, there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; Who never spake more words than these, " Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall.
Page 154 - Look no more, said he, on Man in the first Stage of his Existence, in his setting out for Eternity; but cast thine Eye on that thick Mist into which the Tide bears the several Generations of Mortals that fall into it.