... of the grass one rests on, within the walls or on the plain, or in the Sabine or the Alban hills. Moreover, under the name I will take leave to ...
... wound: among the bad painters chosen to adorn the Houses of Parliament with fresco, he was not one. This affront he took at the hands of men who ...
... cold-an unsheltered creature and the chill fancy of the villager followed him out to the heath on a journey that had no law. Was it he in person, ...
... by way of proof or sign, laugh only half their laughs out of their sense of humour they laugh the rest under a mere stimulation: because of abounding ...
... the other speakers of languages that might all have proved right Italian had not Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio written in Tuscan, can neither write ...
... a property of the turn of speech. It is rather the profounder advantage whereby the rhymes are freighted with such feeling as the very language keeps ...
... of the French-those senses of which they say far too much in every second-class book of their enormous, their general second-class, but which they have ...
... so easily shrinks and dwindles in the careless possession of idle minds. The date, every first of March, for example, may sweep upon a large curve and ...
... east. How serried are the days with forests, how enlarged by plains, how thronged by cities, how singled by the pine, how newly audible by a new ...
... Boston. The vanity of addresses is as frequent with us as on the western side of the Atlantic. It is a vanity without that single apology for vanity-gaiety ...
... admirable supply to their demands.-this applause of their understanding. Is there not in the whole excellent piece of work, something all too independent ...
... sentiment of a verse of Moore's. The joys of sensitive hearts are many but the joys of sensitive hands are few. Here, however, in the effectual ...
... the tops of many thousand hills. Doubtless the farmer would rather have to meet it in battalions than in these invincible units astray. But if the farmer ...
... the extremity of scattered leaves and desperate damp, we beheld an aspect of golden drought. Nothing mouldered-everything was consumed by vital fires. ...
... falsified with infelicitous decay. The Hindus are a washing people and the sun and water that do but dim, soften, and warm the native vegetable ...
... the clasp of arms. Among American Indians, we are told, the women carry the tent so, and the gear of a demenagement, and the warrior himself, upon his ...
... but their poor little slowness is so distinctively their own, and must needs be physiologically so proper to their years, so much a natural condition ...
... I was only naughty once yesterday if I have only one naughtiness to-morrow, will you give me a halfpenny. No reward except for real goodness all ...
... to his own wrongs. On another occasion the unexpected little phrase was varied the news of the war then raging distressed him a thousand of ...
... him, but is of his own devising. According to the opinion of his dear and admired American friend, he says all these things, good and evil, with an ...