Nugae Criticae: Occasional Papers Written at the SeasideEdmonston and Douglas, 1862 - 492 páginas |
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... less than a century since ! Some very curious notions as to the genera- tion of certain birds were current until a compa- ratively recent period . Pontoppidan , while assert- ing that he did not himself believe that “ ducks grew upon ...
... less than a century since ! Some very curious notions as to the genera- tion of certain birds were current until a compa- ratively recent period . Pontoppidan , while assert- ing that he did not himself believe that “ ducks grew upon ...
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... less fowl than fish . Rome appears to be 1 osing her me- diæval austerity , and , with her shrewd flexibility , adapting her asceticism to the culinary liberalism of the nineteenth century . At least , in her day of authority , so far ...
... less fowl than fish . Rome appears to be 1 osing her me- diæval austerity , and , with her shrewd flexibility , adapting her asceticism to the culinary liberalism of the nineteenth century . At least , in her day of authority , so far ...
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... summer , these rocks are whitened by clouds of snowy birds , who then gather together by a kind of tacit under- standing from all quarters of the ocean . Such is the appearance of the coast- -the interior is not less AT THE SEASIDE . 33.
... summer , these rocks are whitened by clouds of snowy birds , who then gather together by a kind of tacit under- standing from all quarters of the ocean . Such is the appearance of the coast- -the interior is not less AT THE SEASIDE . 33.
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... less exquisite because there are no words fit to arrest and per- petuate its peculiar loveliness . Hour after hour the waves broke upon the sandy beach with the same monotonous roll , though a perceptible change might be detected by the ...
... less exquisite because there are no words fit to arrest and per- petuate its peculiar loveliness . Hour after hour the waves broke upon the sandy beach with the same monotonous roll , though a perceptible change might be detected by the ...
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... less brave , or generous , or tender - hearted for that matter , than the most rigid and pitiless vegetarian . Luncheon is a great institution especially at sea . The sandwich , with its delicate aroma of chutney ; the thimbleful of ...
... less brave , or generous , or tender - hearted for that matter , than the most rigid and pitiless vegetarian . Luncheon is a great institution especially at sea . The sandwich , with its delicate aroma of chutney ; the thimbleful of ...
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Página 15 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Página 146 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Página 246 - The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And, musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Página 325 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Página 288 - In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very low, And wild winds bound within their cell, The shadow of the poplar fell Upon her bed, across her brow. She only said, " The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Página 292 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
Página 177 - Leave thou thy sister when she prays Her early heaven, her happy views ; Nor thou with shadow'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Her faith thro' form is pure as thine, Her hands are quicker unto good.
Página 166 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Página 414 - Contemplating Spain, such as our ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain ' with the Indies.' I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
Página 318 - The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duty is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it : the question whether the moment has come in which a man has fallen below the possibility of a renunciation that will carry any efficacy, and must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is one for which we have no master-key that will fit all cases.