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... person . Such is the peculiar pleasure I take in the season of winter , more than the rest of the year . This , I believe , may be partly owing to my misfor- tunes giving my mind a melancholy cast : but there is something even in the ...
... person . Such is the peculiar pleasure I take in the season of winter , more than the rest of the year . This , I believe , may be partly owing to my misfor- tunes giving my mind a melancholy cast : but there is something even in the ...
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... persons seem to me to confound the painting of subjects in common or vulgar life with the being a vulgar artist . The quantity of thought which Hogarth crowds into every picture would alone un- vulgarize every subject which he might ...
... persons seem to me to confound the painting of subjects in common or vulgar life with the being a vulgar artist . The quantity of thought which Hogarth crowds into every picture would alone un- vulgarize every subject which he might ...
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... person the influence of laughter , or in a deep melancholy . Something too of the same kind takes place in that spasm of the muscles of the jaw which we experience in yawning ; an action which is well known to be frequently excited by ...
... person the influence of laughter , or in a deep melancholy . Something too of the same kind takes place in that spasm of the muscles of the jaw which we experience in yawning ; an action which is well known to be frequently excited by ...
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... persons , the power of imitation decays as the period of childhood draws to a close . To this cause it is probably owing that the strong resemblance , which often renders twins scarcely distinguishable from each other in in- fancy , in ...
... persons , the power of imitation decays as the period of childhood draws to a close . To this cause it is probably owing that the strong resemblance , which often renders twins scarcely distinguishable from each other in in- fancy , in ...
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... person ; and I be- lieve the remark is just , when stated with proper limitations . is certainly true that talent for mimickry may exist in the greatest perfection where there is no talent for acting , because the former talent implies ...
... person ; and I be- lieve the remark is just , when stated with proper limitations . is certainly true that talent for mimickry may exist in the greatest perfection where there is no talent for acting , because the former talent implies ...
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Страница 236 - I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Страница 577 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Страница 389 - The Sea The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round; It plays with the clouds ; it mocks the skies ; Or like a cradled creature lies.
Страница 546 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Страница 352 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Страница 574 - With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year : And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks ; And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves, in hollow-whispering gales.
Страница 104 - MUMMY (AT BELZONI'S EXHIBITION) Horace Smith And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!) In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago. When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous.
Страница 349 - Such seemed this man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep, in his extreme old age : His body was bent double, feet and head Coming together...
Страница 453 - Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but when "t depends Not on the number, but the choice, of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturb'd as death, the night.
Страница 554 - ST. AGNES' EVE— Ah, bitter chill it was ! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold ; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold...