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Pagina 2
... reader . It is nothing more nor less than sending a poor navigator on a voyage of discovery under the bottom of the vessel , lowering him down over the bows , and with ropes retaining him exactly in his po- sition under the kelson ...
... reader . It is nothing more nor less than sending a poor navigator on a voyage of discovery under the bottom of the vessel , lowering him down over the bows , and with ropes retaining him exactly in his po- sition under the kelson ...
Pagina 7
... reader by what means the life of our celebrated cur was preserved . When Smallbones had thrown him into the canal , tied up , as he supposed , in his winding- sheet , what Mr. Vanslyperken observed was true , that there were people ...
... reader by what means the life of our celebrated cur was preserved . When Smallbones had thrown him into the canal , tied up , as he supposed , in his winding- sheet , what Mr. Vanslyperken observed was true , that there were people ...
Pagina 16
... reader must be aware of the great advantages that have resulted from the use of images somewhat obscure and of terms that are rather ill - defined , whether for the purpose of indicating a profound and philosophical mode of thinking ...
... reader must be aware of the great advantages that have resulted from the use of images somewhat obscure and of terms that are rather ill - defined , whether for the purpose of indicating a profound and philosophical mode of thinking ...
Pagina 18
... readers , " and yet it is an excellent good word too , " when used with moderation , which it has been , ever since the word ' gifts ' has been seized upon and subjected to the same intolerable drudgery . The word foot ' was also in ...
... readers , " and yet it is an excellent good word too , " when used with moderation , which it has been , ever since the word ' gifts ' has been seized upon and subjected to the same intolerable drudgery . The word foot ' was also in ...
Pagina 19
... reader may sufficiently estimate the merit and useful- ness of this performance , it is necessary to insert a few short extracts , from which he may be enabled to understand something of its plan and materials . The work is nearly in ...
... reader may sufficiently estimate the merit and useful- ness of this performance , it is necessary to insert a few short extracts , from which he may be enabled to understand something of its plan and materials . The work is nearly in ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 118 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Pagina 82 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Pagina 118 - But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Pagina 98 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.— How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Pagina 327 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Pagina 253 - ... entirely apprehended by his hearer. There was sometimes an obvious struggle to do this to his own satisfaction ; he seemed labouring to drag his thought to light from its deep lurking-place ; and, with...
Pagina 71 - I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And therefore thou mayst think my haviour light: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Pagina 247 - Snug the Joiner is the moral man of the piece, who proceeds by measurement and discretion in all things. You see him with his rule and compasses in his hand. " Have you the lion's part written ? Pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study.
Pagina 71 - O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name ! Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Pagina 103 - Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket), 'that she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a pressgang came and stole her husband from her; but, since then, she had no bed to lie on; nothing to give her children to eat; and they were almost naked; and perhaps she might have done something wrong, for she hardly knew what she did!