The Pilgrims of the Thames: In Search of the NationalW. Strange, 1838 - Počet stran: 375 |
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... laughed at . A hint or two respecting the dangers of blind confidence ; or persons having too good an opinion of their own sagacity . Travellers see strange things , and are rather too apt to praise other countries in preference to ...
... laughed at . A hint or two respecting the dangers of blind confidence ; or persons having too good an opinion of their own sagacity . Travellers see strange things , and are rather too apt to praise other countries in preference to ...
Strana 9
... made up my mind that I will not become the laughing - stock of my friends , by entering into any indiscreet , or foolish marriage . " CHAPTER III . The advantages attached to property ; or IN SEARCH OF THE NATIONAL .
... made up my mind that I will not become the laughing - stock of my friends , by entering into any indiscreet , or foolish marriage . " CHAPTER III . The advantages attached to property ; or IN SEARCH OF THE NATIONAL .
Strana 16
... laugh at my own ignorance - to draw comparisons - ask myself a few questions - and endeavour to become and act like a useful and rational member of society . My situation in business , and my character getting abroad as a rich man , as ...
... laugh at my own ignorance - to draw comparisons - ask myself a few questions - and endeavour to become and act like a useful and rational member of society . My situation in business , and my character getting abroad as a rich man , as ...
Strana 18
... laughed at as a complete Goth , or Vandal ! If you must make compa- risons , and introduce the City ! ' talk about its good , ' and not fashionable men ; ' and then your argument will be ad- mitted sterling , and have a backer in the ...
... laughed at as a complete Goth , or Vandal ! If you must make compa- risons , and introduce the City ! ' talk about its good , ' and not fashionable men ; ' and then your argument will be ad- mitted sterling , and have a backer in the ...
Strana 29
... laugh . Excepting debts , Bronze never did any thing to affect his personal liberty ; and it must be low- water mark indeed with him amongst the " Sufferers " if he appears in public badly dressed . " " Then that is the case with him ...
... laugh . Excepting debts , Bronze never did any thing to affect his personal liberty ; and it must be low- water mark indeed with him amongst the " Sufferers " if he appears in public badly dressed . " " Then that is the case with him ...
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Strana 275 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity : Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind...
Strana 62 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?
Strana 296 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here ; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last.
Strana 130 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to LIBERTY, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle or...
Strana 329 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Strana 195 - twere the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape, and the wave Of woods and cornfields, and the abodes of men Scattered at intervals, and wreathing smoke Arising from such rustic roofs...
Strana 249 - THY forests, Windsor ! and thy green retreats, At once the Monarch's and the Muse's seats, Invite my lays.
Strana 113 - and if there were I'm grown so deaf I could not hear." " Nay, then," the spectre stern rejoined, These are unjustifiable yearnings: If you are lame, and deaf, and blind, You've had your three sufficient warnings. So come along — no more we'll part.
Strana 296 - Oh ! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame ? I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart, I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
Strana 345 - His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more.