Crotchet CastleDent, 1891 - 192 頁 |
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第 28 頁 - I am out of all patience with this march of mind. Here has my house been nearly burned down, by my cook taking it into her head to study hydrostatics, in a sixpenny tract, published by the Steam Intellect Society, and written by a learned friend who is for doing all the world's business as well as his own, and is equally well qualified to handle every branch of human knowledge.
第 183 頁 - Did you hear of the curate who mounted his mare, And merrily trotted along to the fair ? Of creature more tractable none ever heard, In the height of her speed she would stop at a word ; * Imitated from the Fabliau, Du Pravoire gui mengea des Mdres. And again with a word, when the curate said Hey, She put forth her mettle, and galloped away.
第 88 頁 - To be looked at, sir ; just to be looked at : the reason for most things in a gentleman's house being in it at all ; from the paper on the walls, and the drapery of the curtains, even to the books in the library, of which the most essential part is the appearance of the back.
第 35 頁 - The sentimental against the rational, the intuitive against the inductive, the ornamental against the useful, the intense against the tranquil, the romantic against the classical; these are great and interesting controversies, which I should like, before I die, to see satisfactorily settled.
第 182 頁 - She put forth her mettle, and galloped away. As near to the gates of the city he rode, While the sun of September all brilliantly glowed, The good priest discovered, with eyes of desire, A mulberry tree in a hedge of wild...
第 83 頁 - If I drink water while this doth last, May I never again drink wine : For how can a man, in his life of a span, Do anything better than dine ? We'll dine and drink, and say if we think That anything better can be ; And when we have dined, wish all mankind May dine as well as we.
第 183 頁 - was a creature so rare, So docile, so true, as my excellent mare; Lo, here now I stand," and he gazed all around, "As safe and as steady as if on the ground; Yet how had it been, if some traveller...
第 183 頁 - He shrunk from the thorns, though he long'd for the fruit ; With a word he arrested his courser's keen speed, And he stood up erect on the back of his steed ; On the saddle he stood while the creature stood still, And he gather'd the fruit till he took his good fill.
第 65 頁 - Shantsee, poets of some note, who used to see visions of Utopia, and pure republics beyond the Western deep : but finding that these El Dorados brought them no revenue, they turned their vision-seeing faculty into the more profitable channel of espying all sorts of virtues in the high and the mighty, who were able and willing to pay for the discovery.
第 172 頁 - TLP, 1837LO ! in Corruption's lumber-room, The remnants of a wondrous broom, That walking, talking, oft was seen, Making stout promise to sweep clean, But evermore, at every push, Proved but a stump without a brush. Upon its handle-top, a sconce, Like Brahma's looked four ways at once : Pouring on king, lords, church, and rabble, Long floods of favour-currying gabble ; From four-fold mouth-piece always spinning Projects of plausible beginning, Whereof said sconce did ne'er intend That any one should...