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Side 11
... play for genius , Peter exchanged it for the stern school of arms , and tried successively the sea and land service . During six months service on board the Ajax , he found himself at first excessively sea - sick , which he imputes part ...
... play for genius , Peter exchanged it for the stern school of arms , and tried successively the sea and land service . During six months service on board the Ajax , he found himself at first excessively sea - sick , which he imputes part ...
Side 16
... play , and saw grave - lish sans - froid . Another day a suicide diggers in King Lear , -a bottle thrown at the performers , and a man precipitated from the gallery into the pit . He was at ehurch , when a fat Englishman , in pulling ...
... play , and saw grave - lish sans - froid . Another day a suicide diggers in King Lear , -a bottle thrown at the performers , and a man precipitated from the gallery into the pit . He was at ehurch , when a fat Englishman , in pulling ...
Side 19
... play was acted ; but , no doubt , " he added , " the Theatre has long ceased to be the school of useful information , " " You would not , then , " said Andrew , " dispute the point of comparative happi- ness during the subsequent reigns ...
... play was acted ; but , no doubt , " he added , " the Theatre has long ceased to be the school of useful information , " " You would not , then , " said Andrew , " dispute the point of comparative happi- ness during the subsequent reigns ...
Side 22
... play , and sing sometimes when no one but the family is by . F I take a newspaper twice a - week , a con- stitutional decent publication , the editor of which seldom troubles his readers with his own fancies , but gives the news as he ...
... play , and sing sometimes when no one but the family is by . F I take a newspaper twice a - week , a con- stitutional decent publication , the editor of which seldom troubles his readers with his own fancies , but gives the news as he ...
Side 52
... plays only their total ignorance of the sub- ject . Addison , with all his wisdom and knowledge , has exposed himself to censure by his attempts to throw ridicule on the Italian opera - not merely on the abuses that might have crept ...
... plays only their total ignorance of the sub- ject . Addison , with all his wisdom and knowledge , has exposed himself to censure by his attempts to throw ridicule on the Italian opera - not merely on the abuses that might have crept ...
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Side 213 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Side 46 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Side 30 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Side 32 - And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol, or a harp ; Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up, Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
Side 174 - There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Side 175 - Fly to the desert, fly with me, Our Arab tents are rude for thee ; But oh ! the choice what heart can doubt Of tents with love, or thrones without ? Our rocks are rough, but smiling there Th' acacia waves her yellow hair, Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less For flowering in a wilderness.
Side 33 - In chimney corner seek domestic joys — I love a prince will bid the bottle pass, Exchanging with his subjects glance and glass ; In fitting time, can, gayest of the gay, Keep up the jest, and mingle in the lay — Such Monarchs best our free-born humours suit, But Despots must be stately, stern, and mute.
Side 213 - He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him...
Side 175 - Oh ! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...