The Lover's Seat: Kathemérina; Or, Common Things in Relation to Beauty, Virtue, and TruthLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 |
Из књиге
Резултати 1-5 од 100
Страница vii
... nature in regard to manhood a common thing- Contrasts from a desire of the extraordinary . - Its excellence- Adherence to nature in regard to womanhood a common thing -Its excellence - Instances the substitutions proposed by those ...
... nature in regard to manhood a common thing- Contrasts from a desire of the extraordinary . - Its excellence- Adherence to nature in regard to womanhood a common thing -Its excellence - Instances the substitutions proposed by those ...
Страница 2
... nature and of art which adorn that suburban paradise . How sweet for moments to persons escaped from a city these solitary places are ! How wantonly the wind breathes through the leaves , and courts and plays with them ! Hark , hark ...
... nature and of art which adorn that suburban paradise . How sweet for moments to persons escaped from a city these solitary places are ! How wantonly the wind breathes through the leaves , and courts and plays with them ! Hark , hark ...
Страница 5
... nature , with such a deep , quiet sense of the sweetness of moments in which every thing strange , unusual , or transcendental was excluded , or at least invisible , the occasion might have suggested the plan of such a work as the ...
... nature , with such a deep , quiet sense of the sweetness of moments in which every thing strange , unusual , or transcendental was excluded , or at least invisible , the occasion might have suggested the plan of such a work as the ...
Страница 8
... nature , common sense , and feeling . " Indeed , this propensity is so strong and wide in its range , that , as Fontenelle observes , " truth itself and nature's grandest works are nothing in the estimation of those possessing it if ...
... nature , common sense , and feeling . " Indeed , this propensity is so strong and wide in its range , that , as Fontenelle observes , " truth itself and nature's grandest works are nothing in the estimation of those possessing it if ...
Страница 13
... nature to establish symmetrical and stable com- positions , in which they do not completely succeed only because of the conflict and antagonism arising from local agencies or particular circumstances or forces , as rivers running to the ...
... nature to establish symmetrical and stable com- positions , in which they do not completely succeed only because of the conflict and antagonism arising from local agencies or particular circumstances or forces , as rivers running to the ...
Друга издања - Прикажи све
The Lover's Seat. Kathemérina; Or, Common Things in Relation to Beauty ... Приказ није доступан - 2020 |
Чести термини и фразе
admire affections appanage Aristotle Bartholomew Fair beauty Ben Jonson bower character Charles Lamb charm Cicero classes colour common pleasures common things common virtues costermonger delight divine dress earth excellence extraordinary eyes fancy fashion feel Festus flowers folly friends grace happy hath Hazlitt hear heard heart heaven honour human humour kind laugh light live London look Love's Pilgrimage Lover's Seat lovers mind mirth moral nature never object observe old play passion penny gaffs perhaps persons philosopher Pindar Plato poet poetry poor racter relation to virtue religion remark respect Richter rience scene seek seems sense sentiment sing Sir Launfal Sir Walter Scott smile society song soul speak spirit street sweet taste thee things in relation thou thought transcendental transcendentalists truth turn uncommon walk whole wise woman women words writer young youth
Популарни одломци
Страница 7 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Страница 242 - HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh ! sweetest melancholy.
Страница 39 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Страница 30 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why then comes in the sweet o' the year ; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With...
Страница 269 - I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the...
Страница 311 - THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a
Страница 262 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When...
Страница 261 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary...
Страница 237 - Here be woods as green As any, air likewise as fresh and sweet As when smooth Zephyrus plays on the fleet Face of the curled streams, with flow'rs as many As the young spring gives, and as choice as any; Here be all new delights, cool streams and wells; Arbours o'ergrown with woodbines, caves and dells; Choose where thou wilt...
Страница 340 - A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse ; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift, summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests ; he gives an independent, genuine verdict.