Crotchet CastleT. Hookham, 1831 - 300 頁 |
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... streams of Surrey , ) rolls a clear flood through flowery meadows , under the shade of old beech woods , and the smooth mossy greensward of the chalk hills , ( which pour into it their tributary rivulets , as pure and pellucid as the ...
... streams of Surrey , ) rolls a clear flood through flowery meadows , under the shade of old beech woods , and the smooth mossy greensward of the chalk hills , ( which pour into it their tributary rivulets , as pure and pellucid as the ...
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... streams of Terra Incognita as accurately as if he had been there . He is a person of pleasant fancy , and makes a sort of fairy land of every coun- try he touches , from the Frozen Ocean to the Deserts of Zahara . CAPTAIN FITZCHROME ...
... streams of Terra Incognita as accurately as if he had been there . He is a person of pleasant fancy , and makes a sort of fairy land of every coun- try he touches , from the Frozen Ocean to the Deserts of Zahara . CAPTAIN FITZCHROME ...
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... stream of the Thames . They passed from the district of chalk , successively into the districts of clay , of sand - rock , of oolite , and so forth . Sometimes they dined in their floating dining - room , sometimes in tents , which they ...
... stream of the Thames . They passed from the district of chalk , successively into the districts of clay , of sand - rock , of oolite , and so forth . Sometimes they dined in their floating dining - room , sometimes in tents , which they ...
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... stream which civilization had either never visited , or long since deserted ; the Missouri and the Columbia , the Oroo- noko and the Amazon , the Nile and the Niger , the Euphrates and the Tigris , the Oxus and the Indus , the Ganges ...
... stream which civilization had either never visited , or long since deserted ; the Missouri and the Columbia , the Oroo- noko and the Amazon , the Nile and the Niger , the Euphrates and the Tigris , the Oxus and the Indus , the Ganges ...
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... stream , to a spot where a small waterfall threw itself over a slab of perpendicular rock , which seemed to bar his farther progress . On a nearer view , he discovered a flight of steps , roughly hewn in the rock , on one side of the ...
... stream , to a spot where a small waterfall threw itself over a slab of perpendicular rock , which seemed to bar his farther progress . On a nearer view , he discovered a flight of steps , roughly hewn in the rock , on one side of the ...
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amusing AP-LLYMRY APPLETWIG arms Athenian Athenian theatre bamboo beautiful better blue gown CAPTAIN FITZCHROME Chainmail CHAP COMMISSIONER coracle creature Crotchet Castle dear devil dine dinner dived divine Eavesdrop enchanter eyes Fabliau father fight Firedamp fish friar give Greek Gwenwynwyn head heart Henbane infancy of society Jacquerie LADY CLARINDA learned friend Llymry London looked Lord Bossnowl MAC QUEDY malaria march of mind Miss Crotchet Miss Susan MISS SUSANNAH morning mountains never Nonnus nose party pass paterfamilias philosophy Philpot pleasant poetry political economy pool Pray question Reverend Doctor Folliott reverend gentleman reverend sir rock rotten borough round ruined castle salmo salar salmon scheme seat sing sketch SKIONAR Sleeping Venus STRANGER stream Thames thing thought tion Tiphys Toogood Touchandgo transcendental TRILLO true truth twelfth century voice wine young Crotchet young lady
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第 217 頁 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
第 295 頁 - He shrunk from the thorns, though he longed 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. "Sure never...
第 172 頁 - My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting ; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is, me judice, no book — it is a plaything.
第 294 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, And again with a word, when the curate said Hey, She put forth her mettle, and galloped away.
第 32 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 296 頁 - To the best-loved maid. Through the forests wild, O'er the mountains lonely, They were never weary Honour to pursue : If the damsel smiled Once in seven years only, All their wanderings dreary Ample guerdon knew. Now one day's caprice Weighs down years of smiling. Youthful hearts are rovers, Love is bought and sold : Fortune's gifts may cease, Love is less beguiling ; Wiser were the lovers, In the days of old.
第 24 頁 - DR. FOLLIOTT My principles, sir, in these things are, to take as much as I can get, and to pay no more than I can help. These are every man's principles, whether they be the right principles or no. There, sir, is political economy in a nutshell.
第 5 頁 - Castle, and determined to hand down to posterity the honours of Crotchet of Crotchet. He found it essential to his dignity to furnish himself with a coat of arms, which, after the proper ceremonies (payment being the principal), he obtained, videlicet: Crest, a crotchet rampant in A sharp: Arms, three empty bladders, turgescent, to show how opinions are formed; three bags of gold, pendent, to show why they are maintained; three naked swords, tranchant, to show how they are administered; and three...
第 119 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 136 頁 - ... ancient sculpture is the true school of modesty. But where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant ; where they had poetry, we have cant ; where they had patriotism, we have cant ; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant. And, sir, to show my contempt for cant in all its shapes, I have adorned my house with the Greek Venus, in all her shapes, and am ready to fight her battle against all the societies that ever were instituted for the...