A Book for a Corner, Or Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best Suited to that Mode of EnjoymentLeigh Hunt J.P. Putnam, 1852 |
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5. oldal
... Servant . PETER WILKINS'S DISCOVERY OF THE FLYING WOMAN . GIL BLAS AND THE PARASITE Rob't Pultock . LUDOVICO IN THE HAUNTED CHAMBER . From the " Mysteries of Udolpho " . Mrs. Radcliffe . 104 THE WARNING . From the Novel of " Nature and ...
... Servant . PETER WILKINS'S DISCOVERY OF THE FLYING WOMAN . GIL BLAS AND THE PARASITE Rob't Pultock . LUDOVICO IN THE HAUNTED CHAMBER . From the " Mysteries of Udolpho " . Mrs. Radcliffe . 104 THE WARNING . From the Novel of " Nature and ...
52. oldal
... servants entering , served up the feast , delicious music playing all the time . Sir Ber- trand could not speak for astonishment he could only return their honours by courteous looks and gestures . After the banquet was finished , all ...
... servants entering , served up the feast , delicious music playing all the time . Sir Ber- trand could not speak for astonishment he could only return their honours by courteous looks and gestures . After the banquet was finished , all ...
53. oldal
... servant in Friday . The second , though the least surprising , is the one most habitually felt by the reader ; the one he oftenest thinks of . It is indeed the main subject of the book . But , as its interest spreads over the greater ...
... servant in Friday . The second , though the least surprising , is the one most habitually felt by the reader ; the one he oftenest thinks of . It is indeed the main subject of the book . But , as its interest spreads over the greater ...
63. oldal
... SERVANT . IN the middle of these cogitations , apprehensions , and reflections , it came into my thoughts one day , that all this might be a mere chimera of my own , and that this foot might be the print of my own foot , when I came on ...
... SERVANT . IN the middle of these cogitations , apprehensions , and reflections , it came into my thoughts one day , that all this might be a mere chimera of my own , and that this foot might be the print of my own foot , when I came on ...
65. oldal
... a little at liberty , nature inspired him with hopes of life , and he started away from them , and ran along the sands with incredible swift- ness directly towards me ; I mean towards that part AND OBTAINS A SERVANT . 65.
... a little at liberty , nature inspired him with hopes of life , and he started away from them , and ran along the sands with incredible swift- ness directly towards me ; I mean towards that part AND OBTAINS A SERVANT . 65.
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admiration agreeable appeared beautiful began better boat Bougainville called carts castle charming Chiswick House club Comanians delight desert of Lop door eyes fancy father fear fire Foulahs garden gave gentleman Gil Blas give ground hand happy hear heard heart heaven hill horse Jack Bruce Joseph Andrews kind knew Kooma Kubla Khan lady lived look lord Ludovico Marco Polo master mind morning MUNGO PARK nature never night o'er observed parterres passage passed person pleased pleasure poet poor Prester John reader retired Robert Bage Rubruquis seemed seen servants ship shore side Sir Roger sleep Solander soon sort spirit stood story sweet Tartars taste Tatler tell things thought tion told took travellers trees turn village walk wind wood word young youth
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46. oldal - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
29. oldal - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
167. oldal - And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!
166. oldal - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
226. oldal - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to misery (all he had) a tear, He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.
137. oldal - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave?
167. oldal - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
226. oldal - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
164. oldal - The author continued for about three hours in a profound sleep, at least of the external senses, during which time he has the most vivid confidence, that he could not have composed less than from two to three hundred lines ; if that indeed can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things, with a parallel production of the correspondent expressions, without any sensation or consciousness of effort.
17. oldal - Sent forth a sleepy horror through the blood; And where this valley winded out, below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.