English EssaysEdward Everett Hale Globe School Book Company, 1902 - 240 páginas |
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Página ix
... talk about anything he liked , and only a secondary desire to learn something particular from him , some matter which we could probably get just as well elsewhere ? At any rate that is what the essay is , in the most specific sense of ...
... talk about anything he liked , and only a secondary desire to learn something particular from him , some matter which we could probably get just as well elsewhere ? At any rate that is what the essay is , in the most specific sense of ...
Página xix
... talk about anything he liked , and only a secondary desire to learn something particular from him , some matter which we could probably get just as well elsewhere ? At any rate that is what the essay is , in the most specific sense of ...
... talk about anything he liked , and only a secondary desire to learn something particular from him , some matter which we could probably get just as well elsewhere ? At any rate that is what the essay is , in the most specific sense of ...
Página xxiii
... talk about anything he liked , and only a secondary desire to learn something particular from him , some matter which we could probably get just as well elsewhere ? At any rate that is what the essay is , in the most specific sense of ...
... talk about anything he liked , and only a secondary desire to learn something particular from him , some matter which we could probably get just as well elsewhere ? At any rate that is what the essay is , in the most specific sense of ...
Página x
... talks on and on all day it gets tiresome , however de- lightful it may be for a short time . So with these essays ... talking , in pleasant places , perhaps , or with pleasant people . When he wrote , he set down what he would otherwise ...
... talks on and on all day it gets tiresome , however de- lightful it may be for a short time . So with these essays ... talking , in pleasant places , perhaps , or with pleasant people . When he wrote , he set down what he would otherwise ...
Página xiii
... talk about anything that he wished , just as Addison was by his idea of a Spectator . Addison and Goldsmith were the great masters of the essay before Lamb ; there have been many after him , but none who wrote with more skill and charm ...
... talk about anything that he wished , just as Addison was by his idea of a Spectator . Addison and Goldsmith were the great masters of the essay before Lamb ; there have been many after him , but none who wrote with more skill and charm ...
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Página 72 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature ; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him.
Página 97 - Shovel ! a very gallant man !' As we stood before Busby's tomb, the knight uttered himself again after the same manner, ' Dr. Busby, a great man ! he whipped my grandfather; a very great man!
Página ix - While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odor assailed his nostrils unlike any scent which he had before experienced.
Página 56 - ... and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished, in the same promiscuous heap of matter.
Página 46 - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Página 43 - ... like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper and my next as prefatory discourses to my following writings, and shall give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work.
Página 77 - I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length said I, " Show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant." The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing...
Página 119 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página ix - It was observed that Ho-ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever. Nothing but fires from this time forward.
Página 57 - As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius before they are put in execution.