The Idler, a treasury of essay, criticism and general literature [ed. by E. Wilberforce].Houlston and Stoneman, 1856 - 372 pages |
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... Heart , which ( pace Snogg ) is something , but a very respec- table tocher . Cattle - dealing came up in the course of the century , and enriched the Bagots among others ; they began to bloom again ; and their neighbours to remember ...
... Heart , which ( pace Snogg ) is something , but a very respec- table tocher . Cattle - dealing came up in the course of the century , and enriched the Bagots among others ; they began to bloom again ; and their neighbours to remember ...
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... heart . " He had still a heart left — which is not always the case with dissi- pated men at that time of life , and he had a certain sobriety of mind , knowledge of men , and moderation of view , which a sensible man , who has tried ...
... heart . " He had still a heart left — which is not always the case with dissi- pated men at that time of life , and he had a certain sobriety of mind , knowledge of men , and moderation of view , which a sensible man , who has tried ...
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... heart For one's a republican . But he knew that the less he showed it the better ; and he carefully kept the cloven hoof under his professor's gown . He had to teach Fulke the ordinary branches of knowledge , -with a special eye ( so ...
... heart For one's a republican . But he knew that the less he showed it the better ; and he carefully kept the cloven hoof under his professor's gown . He had to teach Fulke the ordinary branches of knowledge , -with a special eye ( so ...
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... heart their superior , and never learn to control his nature . It is as curious , as it is well known , that all his lordship's well - meant efforts were fruitless ; and that Mr. Stanhope , whether a profligate or not , was a plain ...
... heart their superior , and never learn to control his nature . It is as curious , as it is well known , that all his lordship's well - meant efforts were fruitless ; and that Mr. Stanhope , whether a profligate or not , was a plain ...
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... heart . " She was startled , and , after a minute's silence , replied , with sim- plicity and feeling , - " You are quite right , sir , in what you say ; and was wrong to mistrust you . But a poor woman , such as I , does not often ...
... heart . " She was startled , and , after a minute's silence , replied , with sim- plicity and feeling , - " You are quite right , sir , in what you say ; and was wrong to mistrust you . But a poor woman , such as I , does not often ...
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Page 125 - NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows ; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions.
Page 97 - To HELEN Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Page 43 - appear to be soldiers, sailors, Jews, chalk, shrimps, officers, and dockyard men. The commodities chiefly exposed for sale in the public streets are marine stores, hardbake, apples, flat-fish, and oysters. The streets present a lively and animated appearance, occasioned chiefly by the conviviality of the military. It is truly delightful to a philanthropic mind, to see these gallant men staggering along under the influence of an overflow, both of animal and ardent spirits; more...
Page 118 - Man alone seems to be the only creature who has arrived to the natural size in this poor soil. Every part of the country presents the same dismal landscape. No grove nor brook lend their music to cheer the stranger, or make the inhabitants forget their poverty.
Page 157 - Seen him, uneumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Page 361 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 139 - WHEN, loved by poet and painter The sunrise fills the sky, When night's gold urns grow fainter, And in depths of amber die — When the morn-breeze stirs the curtain, Bearing an odorous freight — Then visions strange, uncertain, Pour thick through the Ivory Gate.
Page 13 - London' — and perhaps even now it remains unsurpassed — his spacious and beautiful library, looking on the finest private garden in London. The walls are covered half way up with rich and classical stores of literature ; above the cases are in close series the portraits of eminent authors, French and English, with most of whom he had conversed — over these, and immediately under the massive cornice, extend all round in foot-long capitals the Horatian lines...
Page 335 - Tuesday morning the royal courier arrived at the governor's with the melancholy intelligence of the fire, of the loss which it had occasioned, and of the houses it had damaged and ruined, not in the least differing from that which Swedenborg had given immediately after it had ceased, for the fire was extinguished at eight o'clock.
Page 30 - But when wit is combined with sense and information ; -when it is softened by benevolence, and restrained by strong principle ; when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise it, who can be witty, and something much better than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion ten thousand times better than wit ; wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature.