Essays and TalesCassell, 1901 - 192 頁 |
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... time when the shock of change caused by the Revolution of 1688-89 , and also the strain of foreign war , were being severely felt . H. M. CONTENTS . Public Credit Opera Lions Household Superstitions Women and INTRODUCTION .
... time when the shock of change caused by the Revolution of 1688-89 , and also the strain of foreign war , were being severely felt . H. M. CONTENTS . Public Credit Opera Lions Household Superstitions Women and INTRODUCTION .
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Joseph Addison Henry Morley. CONTENTS . Public Credit Opera Lions Household Superstitions Women and Wives The Italian Opera Lampoons . • True and False Humour Sa Ga Yean Qua Rash Tow's Impressions of London The Vision of Marraton Six ...
Joseph Addison Henry Morley. CONTENTS . Public Credit Opera Lions Household Superstitions Women and Wives The Italian Opera Lampoons . • True and False Humour Sa Ga Yean Qua Rash Tow's Impressions of London The Vision of Marraton Six ...
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... not heard from whence it proceeded . We were no sooner sat down , but , after having looked upon me a little while , " My dear , " says she , turning to her husband , " you 14 ESSAYS AND TALES . Opera Lions Household Superstitions.
... not heard from whence it proceeded . We were no sooner sat down , but , after having looked upon me a little while , " My dear , " says she , turning to her husband , " you 14 ESSAYS AND TALES . Opera Lions Household Superstitions.
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... lion . There is nothing so inconsiderable which may not appear dreadful to an imagination that is filled with omens and prognostics : a rusty nail or a crooked pin shoot up into prodigies . I remember I was once in a mixed assembly that ...
... lion . There is nothing so inconsiderable which may not appear dreadful to an imagination that is filled with omens and prognostics : a rusty nail or a crooked pin shoot up into prodigies . I remember I was once in a mixed assembly that ...
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... LIONS . Dic mihi , si fias tu leo , qualis cris ? MART . , xii . 93 . Were you a lion , how would you behave ? THERE is nothing that of late years has afforded matter of greater amusement to the town than Signior Nicolini's combat with a ...
... LIONS . Dic mihi , si fias tu leo , qualis cris ? MART . , xii . 93 . Were you a lion , how would you behave ? THERE is nothing that of late years has afforded matter of greater amusement to the town than Signior Nicolini's combat with a ...
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第 155 頁 - ... insomuch that I could discover nothing in it ; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits, with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and...
第 152 頁 - But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
第 154 頁 - I here fetched a deep sigh; Alas, said I, man was made in vain! How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect; Look no more...
第 155 頁 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
第 152 頁 - ... is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now, said he, this sea that is thus bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me...
第 181 頁 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
第 191 頁 - Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
第 153 頁 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. " The genius, seeing me indulge myself on this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. 'Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, 'and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up, 'What...
第 112 頁 - With that, there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; Who never spake more words than these, " Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall.
第 154 頁 - Look no more, said he, on Man in the first Stage of his Existence, in his setting out for Eternity; but cast thine Eye on that thick Mist into which the Tide bears the several Generations of Mortals that fall into it.