Elia: Essays which Have Appeared Under that Signature in the London MagazineCarey, Lea, & Carey, 1828 - 230 páginas |
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... April Fool , ( as my young lord's jester , ) took upon himself to marshal the guests , and wild work.
... April Fool , ( as my young lord's jester , ) took upon himself to marshal the guests , and wild work.
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... June next to the Twenty - second of December , and the former looked like a Maypole siding a marrow- bone . Ash Wednesday got wedged in ... April Fool perceiving , told him he did well , for pancakes were proper to a REJOICINGS UPON THE.
... June next to the Twenty - second of December , and the former looked like a Maypole siding a marrow- bone . Ash Wednesday got wedged in ... April Fool perceiving , told him he did well , for pancakes were proper to a REJOICINGS UPON THE.
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... April , ( a new - fangled lady of the tory stamp , ) as to which of them should have the honour to propose it ... April Fool , being made mediator , confirmed the right in the strongest form of words to the appellant , but decided for ...
... April , ( a new - fangled lady of the tory stamp , ) as to which of them should have the honour to propose it ... April Fool , being made mediator , confirmed the right in the strongest form of words to the appellant , but decided for ...
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... April Fool whistled to an old tune of " New Brooms ; " and a surly old rebel at the farther end of the table , ( who was discovered to be no other than the Fifth of November , ) mut- tered out , distinctly enough to be heard by the ...
... April Fool whistled to an old tune of " New Brooms ; " and a surly old rebel at the farther end of the table , ( who was discovered to be no other than the Fifth of November , ) mut- tered out , distinctly enough to be heard by the ...
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... April Fool swore they had ex- changed conditions ; but Good Friday was ob- served to look extremely grave ; and Sunday held her fan before her face , that she might not be seen to smile . Shrove - tide , Lord Mayor's Day , and April NEW ...
... April Fool swore they had ex- changed conditions ; but Good Friday was ob- served to look extremely grave ; and Sunday held her fan before her face , that she might not be seen to smile . Shrove - tide , Lord Mayor's Day , and April NEW ...
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Angel April Fool Ash Wednesday Bartholomew fair beauty behold better called Caverswell character Christmas Day common countenance daughters delight Discase dream earth Ember Days eyes face fair fancy fear feel fellow flowers gentle gentleman give gone guests hand handsome hang hath head heard heart heaven honour hope humour John Tomkins Ketch king knew lady late laugh leave less look Lord Lord Mayor's Day Margate melancholy ment merry mind mirth nature never noble occasion once pain person pleasant pleasure poor pretty Quarter Days racter remember Rogation Day round scarcely seemed seen Shakspeare Shrove Tuesday sight sitting smile sometimes sort spared stand strange sure sweet tears thee thee I sing thing thou thought tion true truth turn Twelfth Night Valentine Valentine's Day walk window tax wine young
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Página 139 - Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards, the famous druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there — for what could that have done?
Página 149 - So far from a wish to roam, I would have drawn, methought, still closer the fences of my chosen prison ; and have been hemmed in by a yet securer cincture of those excluding garden walls. I could have exclaimed with that garden-loving poet — Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines ; Curl me about, ye gadding vines ; And oh I so close your circles lace, That I may never leave this place...
Página 91 - ... being in general readers of plays, were obliged to attend the more, and did attend, to what was going on, on the stage— because a word lost would have been a chasm, which it was impossible for them to fill up. With such reflections we consoled our pride then — and I appeal to you whether, as a woman, I met generally with less attention and accommodation than I have done since in more expensive situations in the house? The...
Página 87 - I wish the good old times would come again," she said, "when we were not quite so rich. I do not mean, that I want to be poor; but there was a middle state" — so she was pleased to ramble on, — "in which I am sure we were a great deal happier. A purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money enough and to spare. Formerly it used to be a triumph.
Página 94 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Página 88 - Do you remember the brown suit, which you made to hang upon you, till all your friends cried shame upon you, it grew so threadbare — and all because of that folio Beaumont and Fletcher, which you dragged home late at night from Barker's in Covent Garden?
Página 160 - Shall I be thought fantastical if I confess that the names of some of our poets sound sweeter, and have a finer relish to the ear — to mine, at least — than that of Milton or of Shakspeare?
Página 130 - I began with treating half seriously, I should have fallen upon a recital so eminently painful ; but this theme of poor relationship is replete with so much matter for tragic as well as comic associations, that it is difficult to keep the account distinct without blending. The earliest impressions which I received on this matter, are certainly not attended with anything painful, or very humiliating, in the recalling.
Página 158 - ... eterne." But where a book is at once both good and rare, where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine...
Página 125 - He declareth against fish, the turbot being small, yet suffereth himself to be importuned into a slice against his first resolution. He sticketh by the port, yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are fearful of being too obsequious, or not civil enough to him. The guests think