Tales and Novels: Ennui. The dunBaldwin and Cradock, 1832 |
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Страница 126 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Страница 173 - Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Страница 96 - the greatest part of the buildings in the cities and good towns of England consisted only of timber, cast over with thick clay to keep out the wind. The new houses of the nobility were indeed either of brick or stone ; and glass windows were then beginning to be used in England : " •]• and clean rushes were strewed over the dirty floors of the royal palace.
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Страница 176 - ... forming all together a perpendicular height of one hundred and seventy feet, from the base of which the promontory, covered over with rock and grass, slopes down to the sea, for the space of two hundred feet more: making, in all, a mass of near four hundred feet in height, which, in the beauty and variety of its colouring, in elegance and novelty of arrangement, and in the extraordinary magnificence of its objects, cannot be rivalled'.
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Страница 140 - Voilà, dit-elle, madame, cette personne dont je vous ai entretenue, qui a un si grand esprit, qui sait tant de choses. Allons, mademoiselle, parlez. Madame, vous allez voir comme elle parle. » Elle vit que j'hésitais à répondre, et pensa qu'il fallait m'aider comme une chanteuse qui prélude, à qui l'on indique l'air qu'on désire d'entendre. « Parlez un peu de religion, me dit-elle; vous direz ensuite autre chose.
Страница 111 - ... and all decorum, there he sits, in magisterial silence, throwing a gloom upon all conversation. As the Frenchman said of the Englishman, for whom even his politeness could not find another compliment, 'II faut avouer que ce monsieur a un grand talent pour le silence...